- Collection:
- Kenneth Rogers Photograph Collection
- Title:
- Butler Island Flood, before 1938
- Creator:
- Rogers, Kenneth, 1907-1989
- Date of Original:
- 1904/1937
- Subject:
- Boats
Vessels--Georgia--Butler Island
Baseball--New York (State)--New York
Floods--Georgia--Butler Island
Natural phenomena--Georgia--Butler Island
Disasters--Georgia--Butler Island
Huston, Tillinghast L'Hommedieu, 1867-1938 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, McIntosh County, Butler Island, 31.3588367, -81.4678805
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of New York Yankees co-owner, Colonel Tillinghast Huston in a row boat, in the yard of a house, during a flood on Butler Island.
Butler Island is named for its prior owner Revolutionary War veteran, and U.S. Senator from South Carolina, Major Pierce Butler. The Butler family owned a plantation on the island where rice was grown. Pierce Butler's grandson, also Pierce Butler was forced to sell of the plantations slaves to pay his gambling debts, this was known as the "The Weeping Time," it was the largest sale of human beings in the history of the United States. The island is now being used by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources as wetland habitat for wildlife and wetland agricultural crops. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 82.105.02
ahc082105002a.jpg - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/Rogers/id/188
- Extent:
- 4 x 5 in. black and white negative
- Original Collection:
- Kenneth Rogers Photographs, Atlanta History Center
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
