"Embryo Town of Columbus on the Chatahoochie."
File Name
Q13097
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Item Title
"Embryo Town of Columbus on the Chatahoochie. "
Description
Plate 26 from FORTY ETCHINGS : FROM SKETCHES MADE WITH THE CAMERA LUCIDA , IN NORTH AMERICA IN 1827 AND 1828 by Captain Basil Hall . From the author's description : "This Sketch shows the embryo Town of Columbus , on the left bank of the Chatahootchie River , which divides the State of Georgia from that of Alabama . The territory in which Columbus stood , or rather was intended to stand , had been recently acquired by Georgia from the Creek nation of Indians . According to the laws of that State , all the new country so obtained was divided amongst the citizens by lottery , excepting a certain spot on the left bank of the Chatahootchie River , five miles square , or about sixteen thousand acres , on which it was agreed by the State Government , to establish a city . Previous to the actual commencement of this undertaking , it was of course necessary to survey the ground , lay out the streets , give them names , and make other arrangements , to prevent confusion . But although six weeks or two months were still to elapse before a foot of the building-ground of the future city could be disposed of, a great number of persons had assembled from different parts of the United States , in order to select favourable spots for their future dwellings . Upwards of nine hundred souls were collected under the trees , and this Sketch represents the most populous and best cleared part of the city . The other streets were only just marked out by narrow lanes , a yard wide , cut through the brushwood by the surveyors . The principal avenue , I was told by one of the inhabitants , was to be one league in length and sixty yards wide , which he assured me , with the utmost gravity , would be completed in two or three years. "
Date
1827-1828
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Time Period
1820-1829
Subject
Buildings Houses Columbus (Ga.)
Type
Still image
Format
Prints Sketches
Author
Hall, Basil
Collection or Series Title
Forty etchings: from sketches made with the camera lucida, in North America, in 1827 and 1828
Box Number
E165.H16 1830
Catalog Record
http://adahcat.archives.alabama.gov/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=23118
Repository
Alabama Dept. of Archives and History, 624 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36130
Language
English
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Digital Format
600 dpi tiff
Date created
2009-06-22
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