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Georgia -- Bowdon

 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 minute 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,...
Dates: 1844-1989
Found in: University of West Georgia Special Collections / Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church records

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
Found in: University of West Georgia Special Collections / Confederate States of America Army, Infantry, Cobb's Legion, Company B muster roll

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
Found in: University of West Georgia Special Collections / Myron House oral history collection

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
Found in: University of West Georgia Special Collections / Benjamin Mandeville Long papers