University of West Georgia Special Collections

This collection contains the records of African American churches in the West Georgia region.

This collection contains blueprints, land surveys, membership directories, membership files, photographs, published materials, letters, church programs and directories, sheet music, church newsletters, photograph negatives, photograph slides, training manuals, scrapbooks, CDs, floppy discs, and other materials pertaining to the history and operations of the First Baptist Church Carrollton for the years 1902-2018.

George Bright Hamilton served as Georgia State Treasurer from 1933 to 1962.

Papers of Joe McGinnis, Carrollton mayor from 1993 to 1999 and member of the Carrollton City School Board from 1977-1993 and 2001-2013.

This collection contains the published minutes from several annual Primitive Baptist Associations in the West Georgia region, dating from 1923 to 2001.

Legislative papers of Representative John Simpson who represented Georgia’s 70th District (Carroll and Douglas counties) in the state House of Representatives as a Democrat from 1987-1996.

Legislative papers of Charles A. Thomas, who represented District 69, which is made up of parts of Carroll and Douglas counties, in the Georgia State House of Representatives from 1979-1990. The majority of the material in the collection consists of correspondence from constituents and colleagues, committee related work, and house bills and resolutions.

This collection contains materials related to the history of the Women's Missionary Union (WMU) of the Carrollton Baptist Association and the history of the churches within the Carrollton Baptist Association. There are also materials on the general history of Georgia Baptists including information on the Sixth World Congress of the Baptist World Alliance held in Atlanta in 1939.