- Collection:
- Augusta Fire Department ledgers
- Title:
- Book 1 (January 1906 - December 1923)
- Creator:
- Augusta (Ga.). Fire Department
- Date of Original:
- 1906-01/1923-12
- Subject:
- Fire risk assessment--Georgia--Augusta
Real property--Georgia--Augusta
Fire departments--Colorado--Boulder--History
Augusta (Ga.)--Fires and fire prevention
Fire departments--Georgia--Augusta--History
Fire alarms--Georgia--Augusta
Fire insurance--Georgia--Augusta - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Richmond County, Augusta, 33.47097, -81.97484
- Medium:
- records (documents)||ledgers (account books)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- Bound fire ledger for the city of Augusta, Georgia, covering the period from January 1906 to December 1923. Recorded in the ledger with varying levels of detail: the date, time, box or fire district, street location, building occupant, building owner, cause of fire, kind of building (building material), business, loss on buildings, personal property, what was covered by insurance, and further notes about the fire that might have included what was damaged, or what was used to combat the fire at that location. Of note is a fire that impacted portions of downtown and Olde Town Augusta, Georgia on March 22, 1916 (some data from March 1916 is on pages 133 and 134 of the ledger).
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gaec_agfdl_fdl1906-1923
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gaec_agfdl_fdl1906-1923/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 20" x 15" x 2.5"
254 pages - Holding Institution:
- Augusta-Richmond County Public Library
- Rights:
-
