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St. Marys (Ga.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:

Aerial Photography Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MC-028
Scope and Contents

Approximately 300 large format aerial photographs of Camden County and other nearby locations. Several photographs were captured in 1953.

Dates: 1953

Beatrice Lang collection

 Collection
Identifier: MC-001
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, family records, photos, and artifacts from Beatrice Lang. Corresondence includes personal and business-related matters. The bulk of the collection cosists of biographical materials on various Lang family members. It should be noted, that the Mary Givens Bryan collection was held and donated by Beatrice Lang, but is considered a seperate collection.

Dates: 1770s-late 1900s

Camden County Tribune editions, 1950-1996

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MC2-03
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains microfilms of 19th and early 20th century census records and slave schedules from Camden County (Ga.) and neighboring counties in Georgia and Florida; microfiche of Georgia and Florida Deaths, Marriages, and Florida Divorces; newspaper editions from the St. Marys newspaper, Camden County Tribune, and the Kingsland newspaper, Southeast Georgian, and their combined successor, the Tribune and Georgian. Other regional and southern-focused subject materials...
Dates: 1950-1996

Commissioners of Camden County Academy Records of Proceedings

 Record Group — Folder 1
Identifier: RG-010
Scope and Contents

This book contains meeting minutes (March 16, 1849, to November 8, 1890, and July 1, 1891 to January 25, 1897) and financial account statements (March 16, 1849, to June 26, 1892).

Dates: 1849-1890, 1890-1897

District of St. Marys Customs House records

 Record Group
Identifier: RG-002
Scope and Contents Customs Records from the Port of St. Marys, and the subordinate customs house along the Great Satilla. The customs house in St. Marys was in use from the late 1700s until 1913 when the customs house was moved to Fernandina, Fla. These records were slated to be thrown into a dumpster in 1987. When a local citizen heard about the plans he rescued the documents.Most of the loose records consist of correspondence dealing with fees, taxes, reports: statistics, seizures, fines,...
Dates: 1866-1913

General Services Administration - National Archives & Records Service (selected records pertaining to Julius A. Baratte, Collector of Customs, St. Marys, Georgia 1853-1858) TG-283, Records of the United States House of Representative, Petition and papers of Cora D. Baratte and children. NLF(NFS)17, 1853-1858

 Item
Identifier: BLMF-0002
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Correspondence, family records, photos, and artifacts from Beatrice Lang. Corresondence includes personal and business-related matters. The bulk of the collection cosists of biographical materials on various Lang family members. It should be noted, that the Mary Givens Bryan collection was held and donated by Beatrice Lang, but is considered a seperate collection.

Dates: 1853-1858

Long Family papers

 Collection — Box 25 (originally, Orange Hall records bx)
Identifier: MC-031
Abstract

mid-19th century deeds, wills, correspondence pertaining to the Long Family.

Dates: 1800s

Mary K. Nightingale Letter to Miss Jane Botts

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: ACC-2002-02
Dates: March 3, 1837

Mary K. Nightingale Letter to Miss Jane Botts

 Collection
Identifier: MC-034
Scope and Contents

The letter was written by Mary Nightingale, the wife of Phineas Miller Nightingale, from Dungeness home on Cumberland Island on March 3,1837. Mary writes to a friend, Miss Jane Botts, a resident of Jamaica, Long Island, New York.

In the letter, Mary refers to family (nieces and nephews), life on Cumberland Island, and her husband.

Dates: March 3, 1837

New York Herald, March 18, 1862 edition

 Collection
Identifier: MC-017
Scope and Contents

March 18, 1862 edition of the New York Herald. Frontpage (above the fold) story about civil war actions around Ft. Clinch off the coast of Florida and Georgia. Contains a map of Downtown St. Marys.

Dates: March 18, 1862

Orange Hall collection

 Collection — Box 25 (originally, Orange Hall records bx)
Identifier: MC-026
Scope and Contents

1 box of records, most of which are not directly related to Orange Hall.

Includes one copy of the marriage contract between Scholastique Thibaudeau and Jean Remouillac, returns of real estate, inferior and superior court records, including a small number of petitions for citizenship, and several records pertaining to the Rudolph Family.

Dates: 1778-1975

Record Book of the City Court of St. Marys, bulk: 1859, 1871-1922

 Item
Identifier: RG1-19-33
Scope and Contents From the Record Group: Records from Camden County (Ga.) departments including, courts (Superior, Inferior, Ordinary, Probate, Justice, and City Courts), Tax assessor, Sheriff, Education, and Elections. Types of records in this collection include, tax digests (improved and wild), civil and criminal records, court minutes, interrogatories, judgments, dockets, deed indexes (including transactions involving slavery), land grants, plat drawings, and property indentures, estates (wills, guardianships,...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1859, 1871-1922

Riverview Hotel and Ready Street postcards

 Collection
Identifier: MC-016
Scope and Contents

Two 1920s era postcards of the Riverview Hotel and Ready Street in St Marys, Ga.

Dates: circa 1925

St. Marys Records, 1841-1929

 Series
Identifier: MC1-13
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Correspondence, family records, photos, and artifacts from Beatrice Lang. Corresondence includes personal and business-related matters. The bulk of the collection cosists of biographical materials on various Lang family members. It should be noted, that the Mary Givens Bryan collection was held and donated by Beatrice Lang, but is considered a seperate collection.

Dates: 1841-1929

Winifred Drury Thomas collection

 Collection
Identifier: MC-018
Scope and Contents

Records of Oak Grove Cemetery Association, St. Marys Cemetery Association, Piedmont Baptism Annual Meetings Minutes books, and other Baptist church materials.

Dates: 1858-1925