Eight pages of text enclosed in a paper cover. No author is listed. Likely authors were J.C. Bonner, as he had published an article in the Carroll County Times on 13 March 1941 with near-identical content. A historical note for the Ruby Middlebrooks finding aid asserts that she was the author. Likely, Middlebrooks in her role as Secretary to the University President, assembled the essay by J.C. Bonner into a published format.

Land lottery drawing for Carroll County in 1825 by Lawrence Richardson; William A. Walsh; Thomas Bonner; Y. Hendrix constucted Bonner House which was completed in 1844; Bonner House later moved 200 yards; Uncle Abe, a Black man enslaved by the Bonner family; description of layout of Bonner Plantation; slave quarters; "The burying ground for the slaves was the area now occupied by Melson Hall dormitory"; brandy distillery [note by Blynne Olivieri Parker, near present day Sanford Hall]; land from plantation to Little Tallapoosa river was called "deer stand"; cotton growing; Uncle Abe's care for Bonner sons; Methodist Church in Tallapoosa Community [note by Blynne Olivieri Parker, this is not the present day city of Tallapoosa but instead a small community also called Tallapoosa which is about 3 miles west of present-day campus, for location information see also "Tallapoosa School" which was built in 1880]; "Old Camp" mustering ground for local militia during the U.S. Civil War in the Tallapoosa community; Union troops in Bonner Plantation area in 1861; Bonner family departure in 1866; "Abe's freedom became the sharecropper's thraldom"; Sharp family; Fourth District Agricultural and Mechanical School; military curriculum at the School during World War One; Depression; West Georgia College; location from Creek and Cherokee lands; pioneers; gardens and trees of campus; Martha Munro Ingram; rural elementary school teacher training has national attention; adult education program called College in the Country.