- Collection:
- Vanishing Georgia
- Title:
- [Photograph of gateposts for Peters Farm, Calhoun, Gordon County, Georgia, ca. 1900-1939?]
- Date of Original:
- 1900/1939
- Subject:
- Architecture--Georgia--Calhoun
Domestic life--Georgia--Calhoun
Landscape--Georgia--Calhoun - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Gordon County, Calhoun, 34.50259, -84.95105
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Calhoun, early 1900s. Two stone gateposts located where Peters Street and East Belmont Drive meet. They marked the road which led to the home on what is known as the Peters Farm. The gateposts were demolished in the 1950s. About 1830 Richard Peters of Atlanta purchased some 4000 acres in what was to become in 1850 Gordon County. He came to Atlanta from Pennsylvania. He was a civil engineer and achieved prominence in Atlanta. During the Civil War the farm buildings were not destroyed and Union troops were housed there. The home was built after the war. Over the years a number of members of the Peters family has owned and managed the farm. In 1950 Burton J. Bell purchased the home and some 160 acres.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_vang_gor411
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/vang/do:gor411
- 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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