- Collection:
- Vanishing Georgia
- Title:
- [Photograph of Blunt-Kirby home, Dalton, Whitfield County, Georgia, ca. 1976]
- Date of Original:
- 1976
- Subject:
- Architecture--Georgia--Dalton
Domestic life--Georgia--Dalton
Georgia--Politics and government--Dalton - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Whitfield County, 34.80561, -84.96722
United States, Georgia, Whitfield County, Dalton, 34.7698, -84.97022 - Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Dalton, ca. 1976. Blunt-Kirby home located at 506 South Thornton Avenue was built in 1848 by Ainsworth Emery Blunt. The home has continued to be occupied by members of his family. Blunt arrived in Cross Plains, now known as Dalton, in 1843. He served as postmaster of the community. In 1847 when Cross Plains was incorporated as Dalton, he was elected its first mayor. His daughter, Lillie, married Thomas Miles Kirby.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_vang_wtf154
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/vang/do:wtf154
- Additional Rights Information:
- Held by Georgia Archives, 5800 Jonesboro Road, Morrow, GA 30260.
Contact repository re: reproduction and usage. - Holding Institution:
- Georgia Archives
- Rights:
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