- Collection:
- Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation Presentation Slide Collection, 1968-2000
- Title:
- Hand Trading Company
- Creator:
- Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation
- Contributor to Resource:
- Hand, J. L. (Judson Larrabee), 1850-1916
- Date of Original:
- 1960/2000
- Subject:
- Architecture
Historic sites--Georgia--Mitchell County
Historic buildings--Georgia--Mitchell County
Commercial buildings--Georgia--Mitchell County
Department stores--Georgia--Mitchell County
Cultural property--Protection
Historic preservation--Georgia
Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Mitchell County, Pelham, 31.12802, -84.15304
- Medium:
- color slides
department stores (buildings)
historic preservation
historic buildings - Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- Mitchell County entrepreneur Judson Larrabee ("J. L.") Hand (1850-1916) was the proprietor of the J.L. Hand Trading Company. An 1871 graduate of the University of Georgia, J. L. Hand moved to Mitchell County during the spring of 1872 and established a sawmill and turpentine distillery at a stop on the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad. Established in 1876 to serve Hand's employees, his commissary eventually became the J.L. Hand Trading Company, eventually becoming southwest Georgia's largest mercantile company. Hand was also the first mayor and first postmaster of Pelham, Georgia, and served several terms in the Georgia General Assembly. He died in 1916. For many years J.L. Hand's department store was the largest in South Georgia. Hand's conglomerate included the Hand Trading Company, Pelham Manufacturing Company, Pelham Phosphate Company, Pelham Oil and Fertilizer Works, the Farmers' Bank of Pelham, Pelham Loan and Investment Company, and the Flint River and Northeastern Railway. The four-story retail facility held nearly 100,000 feet of floor space; it was restored in 2010 and has since been converted into housing. Variant names include: Hand Trading Company. See https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_vang_mit022 and page 1 of the Pelham Journal, October 20, 1916: https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn90052250/1916-10-20/ed-1/seq-1
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gthp_gthp-slides_565
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gthp_gthp-slides_565#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gthp_gthp-slides_565/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact holding institution for information regarding use and copyright status.
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation
- Rights:
-
