- Collection:
- Vanishing Georgia
- Title:
- [Photograph of John Nelson Carleton home with family members on the porch, Mountville, Troup County, Georgia, 1880-1899]
- Creator:
- Childress
- Date of Original:
- 1880/1899
- Subject:
- Children--Georgia
Porches--Georgia--Troup County
Women--Georgia--Mountville
Architecture--Georgia--Mountville
Domestic life--Georgia--Mountville
Georgia--Politics and government--Mountville - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Troup County, Mountville, 33.03929, -84.88077
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Mountville, 1880s-1890s. Home of John Nelson Carleton with members of the family seen on the porch. Carleton was born in Vermont in 1829 and moved to Mountville in 1856. He married Angelet M. Evans the next year. He owned a business which manufactured buggies and carriages with coffins and furniture as sidelines. He had training as a teacher and was an expert telegrapher. During the Civil War he served in Company C, 2d Georgia State Troops. In 1888 he was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives. He died in 1898. His son, Olin, later owned this home. Note the unusual and secluded porch on the second floor. The home was located on Main Street.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_vang_trp295
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/vang/do:trp295
- 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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