- Collection:
- Finding Aids
- Title:
- MS-007 Charles Corless Papers
- Contributor to Resource:
- Corless, Charles
- Date of Original:
- 1986-02
- Subject:
- Troup County (Ga.)
Education--Georgia--Troup County
Archives--Collection management--Georgia--Troup County - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- finding aids
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Charles Corless, Jr., owned and resided at the site of Troup Factory in southern Troup County from 1936 until his death in the late 1980s. After retirement as a civil engineer, Corless devoted much of his time to researching the history of his property. Most of Mr. Corless's information on Troup Factory can be found in MS-1, Troup County Historical Society Records. This collection contains information on the Brooks family, with emphasis on James Maxey Brooks, who was involved in building the first mills at Troup Factory. Mr. Corless hypothesized that in 1739, General James Oglethorpe crossed Flat Shoals Creek in the vicinity of the Corless property en route to his meeting with Creek Indian leaders at Coweta Town on the Chattahoochee River. Maps, completed in 1983, and supporting material show Mr. Corless's projection of Oglethorpe's route from Augusta to Flat Shoals. Oglethorpe's exact route across Georgia has long been a matter of debate among historians.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://cdm17413.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/findingaids/id/130
- IIIF manifest:
- http://cdm17413.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/2/findingaids:130/manifest.json
- Original Collection:
- MS-007 Charles Corless Papers
- Holding Institution:
- Troup County Archives
- Rights:
-
