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File Name	Q13097
Digital image order form	http://www.archives.alabama.gov/photo_order_form.pdf
Permission to publish form	http://www.archives.alabama.gov/referenc/private2.pdf
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
Email ADAH	Do you have information or questions about this image? Click here to email us: mailto:photos.archives@archives.alabama.gov and please include file name (located below image) or the hyperlink of the image.
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:81/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=23118
Repository	Alabama Dept. of Archives and History, 624 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36130
Language	English
Rights	This material may be protected under U. S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S. Code) which governs the making of photocopies or reproductions of copyrighted materials. You may use the digitized material for private study, scholarship, or research. Though ADAH has physical ownership of the material in its collections, in some cases we may not own the copyright to the material. It is the patron's obligation to determine and satisfy copyright restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in our collections.
Digital Format	600 dpi tiff
Date created	2009-06-22

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