- Collection:
- Vanishing Georgia
- Title:
- [Photograph of monument, Calhoun, Gordon County, Georgia, 1975]
- Date of Original:
- 1975
- Subject:
- Soldiers' monuments--Georgia--Calhoun
Architecture--Georgia--Calhoun - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Gordon County, Calhoun, 34.50259, -84.95105
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Calhoun, 1975. Monument to Gen. Charles Haney Nelson (1796-1848). Gen. Nelson participated in the Seminole Indian War and the Mexican War of 1845. He had been born in Wilkes County, Ga. but later purchased land east of Calhoun. The twenty foot high marble monument had stood on the Gordon County Courthouse square and in a small park north of Calhoun. Workers seen in this photograph are getting it situated in its new location at the intersection of Park Avenue and Oothcaloga Street across from Oothcaloga Depot.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_vang_gor378
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/vang/do:gor378
- Rights Holder:
- Held by Georgia Archives, 5800 Jonesboro Road, Morrow, GA 30260.
Contact repository re: reproduction and usage. - Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact holding institution for information regarding use and copyright status.
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia Archives
- Rights:
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