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The dead towns of Georgia

The dead towns of Georgia

C. Jones, Charles

Paperback

General ReferenceGeneral United StatesGeneral United States History

ISBN10: 9353701961
ISBN13: 9789353701963
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: May 17 2019
Pages: 276
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.62 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Follow Georgia's back roads far enough and you meet places that no longer exist on a modern map. The past has an address. Charles C. Jones leads you to it, with a storyteller's ear and an antiquarian's patience, across vanished communities whose names survive in river bends, old deeds, and local memory. Here are settlements overshadowed by new routes and new economies, recorded while their traces could still be followed in paper and earth. First published as a nineteenth century history book, The Dead Towns of Georgia is a sequence of historical sketches and essays rooted in georgia local history and the broader sweep of american south history. Jones traces colonial georgia settlements and later outposts as they flourish, shift, and fall quiet, leaving abandoned town sites and half-remembered boundaries. For readers drawn to the ghost towns of georgia and the human reasons towns move on, it reads like a southern ghost town book with real archival weight. For genealogy and family research, it offers a rich regional history reference: names, places, and contexts that help locate an ancestor in 18th century georgia and beyond. A classic history reprint of enduring authority, this work helped shape how the region's early landscape is remembered, blending careful documentation with vivid sense of place. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector's item and a cultural treasure, equally suited to casual history readers and to classic-literature shelves.

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