- Collection:
- Finding Aids
- Title:
- MS-054 Young Sisters Papers
- Contributor to Resource:
- Young, Jr
J. Clemmons - Date of Original:
- 1986-04
1995-06 - 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:
- The Misses Young were LaGrange businesswomen. They ownedand operated a millinery business and the Colonial Hotel, both located on Ridley Avenue. Anna (1879-1965), Lois (1892-1984), and Ethel (1893-1968) were the daughters of James G. and Martha Jane Freeman Young of Troup County. Most of these records relate to construction and operation of the hotel which opened in 1921. It was renovated and expanded in 1926. Correspondence with Ivey and Crook, architects for the hotel, and with major vendors for the project recounts the progress and difficulties encountered in the hotel's construction. The hotel's guest registry, 1922-1923, consists of loose pages on which are listed the guest's name and place of residence. Invoices are arranged alphabetically by vendor's name and are a valuable source of information on small businesses operating in LaGrange and Troup County in the mid-1920s. The Young sisters' strong family ties are revealed in their personal correspondence (1903-1981), and in the memorabilia they collected: greeting cards, news clippings and a family Bible containing genealogical information. The papers of Leonard H. Young, nephew of the Young sisters, reflect his civic, religious, and political interests, but relate primarily to his activities as the Young's attorney. Title searches, tax records and law suits which involved the Young family are included. Much of the material was generated during the Great Depression and reflects the financial difficulties encountered during that period. Correspondence (1935) with Representative Ellis Arnold, later Governor of Georgia, is in regard to a bill introduced by Arnold in the Georgia Legislature designed to regulate the collection of music roylaties. Photographs date from about 1850 to about 1970 and include some portraits, but are mostly snapshots of members of the Young family, their gardens and homes, especially "Dellwood", the Young's summer home on the Chattahoochee River. The house was razed in the 1970s when West Point Dam was built.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://cdm17413.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/findingaids/id/289
- IIIF manifest:
- http://cdm17413.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/2/findingaids:289/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
- Troup County Archives
- Rights:
-
