When James Bond enjoyed his martini, “shaken, not stirred,” it is likely that the pimento, stuffed in the olive that garnished his favorite cocktail was grown in Troup or a neighboring county. Of course, Agent 007 is [...]
CORNBREAD & HOPPIN’ JOHN The Contributions of the Enslaved Community The influences for many of the Southern foods we have come to know, descend to us from colonial and antebellum slave quarters. Southern food is derived from [...]
Vintage Christmas Greeting Card 1922 Christmas 1921 The front page of the LaGrange Graphic, December 15, 1921, was devoted entirely to children’s letters to Santa. At the time, these were simple requests from children, however, [...]
HDV Forklifts This photo, from the cover of the October 1, 1951 Callaway Beacon, shows a line of new forklifts that had just recently been purchased for Callaway Mills with each forklift’s driver. The caption reads, “Drivers [...]
Within our stacks, we have a small collection of just over thirty photographs. Surprisingly, these photographs dating to the late 1940s and early 1950s are not rendered in the black and white that is common to the [...]
Dr. John Henry Jordan The images show Dr. Jordan Henry Jordan, his wife, Mollie, and their son, Edward. In celebration of Black History Month, we are examining the contributions of African-Americans in Troup County. Dr. [...]
Dorothy K. Harrison In celebration of Black History Month, we are examining the contributions and history of African-Americans in Troup County. So often, important people of color have slipped through the cracks of history. One of those [...]
image shows the berries and foliage of the Yaupon holly While neither coffee—brewed from the seeds of shrubs in the genus Coffea—or tea—brewed from the leaves of the Camellia sinensis—are native to North America, the [...]
Beginning in May of 1961, Civil Rights activists began staging protests against the enforcement of public bus integration in the South. Despite two U.S. Supreme Court decisions legalizing integration, many Southern states continued to enforce state and [...]
In celebration of Black History Month, we are examining the contributions of African-Americans in Troup County. From 1949 to 1968, Callaway Mills published the Callaway Beacon, a regular newsmagazine for its employees. Within the magazine’s pages are [...]
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