Bowdon (Ga.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church records
Collection
Identifier: LH-0016
Scope and Contents note
This collection contains original records from the Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church in Bowdon, Georgia. Four ledger books contain minutes for the church's monthly meetings, and they cover the years 1844 to 1989. Each book lists the Primitive Baptists' beliefs, titled as the "abstract of principles," at the beginning of the book, and they all include member lists on the last few pages. The member lists were updated as people died, moved away, or were excommunicated, and every decade or so, a...
Dates:
bulk 1844-1989
Confederate States of America Army, Infantry, Cobb's Legion, Company B muster roll
Collection
Identifier: LH-0025
Overview
The Cobb's Legion Infantry, Company B, of the Confederate States of America, otherwise known as the "Bowdon Volunteers" was formed in 1861 by Charles A. McDaniel, the founder and first president of Bowdon College.
Dates:
Approximately 1910
Myron House oral history collection
Collection
Identifier: LH-0078
Overview
This collection contains 187 cassette tapes, 31 compact discs, 9 VHS tapes, and six paper transcripts. The recordings are oral history interviews, speeches, and musical instruction and performances.
Dates:
1942-2003
Benjamin Mandeville Long papers
Collection
Identifier: LH-0010
Overview
Photographs, negatives, scrapbooks, and other materials of Benjamin Mandeville Long (1881-1973), the oldest child of two-time Carrollton mayor Henry and Lula Long. After serving in the U.S. Army, Long began a banking career in Cordova, Alabama in 1906. He returned to Carrollton in 1914 and worked in the Peoples Bank until 1917 when he opened Long Insurance Agency. Long remained in insurance from 1917 until the late 1960s when he retired.
Dates:
bulk 1840-1973