- Collection:
- Vanishing Georgia
- Title:
- Gen. Lewis L. Griffin
- Date of Original:
- 1860
- Subject:
- Portraits--Georgia--Spalding County
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Spalding County, 33.26087, -84.28416
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- ca. 1860. Lewis Lawrence Griffin, the founder of Griffin and the man for whom it is named. He was born in South Carolina in 1794 and died in Aberdeen, Miss. in 1867. He served in the Ga. militia; was a businessman, banker, railroad man. He purchased about 800 acres of land and laid out the city with land reserved for schools, churches, parks, other public use.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_vang_spl020
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/vang/do:spl020
- 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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