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Alabama. Salt Commission. Commissioner's vouchers, 1862-1865.

Title: Commissioner's vouchers, 1862-1865.

This series contains vouchers issued and received by State Salt Commissioners Abner G. McGehee and Benjamin M. Woolsey from 1862 to 1865. The vouchers document a variety of expenditures incurred during the construction of the State Salt Works in Clarke County; the payment of wages to overseers, blacksmiths, brickmasons, engineers, wagonmasters, and clerks; the purchase of foodstuffs, livestock, and fodder; the monthly hire of slaves, mules and wagons; and freight charges for transporting salt and provisions by riverboat, railroad, and wagon. A significant number of vouchers are for the hire of slaves to work at the Salt Works. The vouchers include the name of the slaveholder and often the names of the slaves hired. Some slaveholders mentioned are Mrs. William Lowndes Yancey, Capt. Thomas Brown, Mrs. Mary Peacock, Mrs. Mary Harwell, T.G. Forster, T.B. Bethea, and M.W. Garrison. A large number of vouchers are for persons who sold cast iron to the Salt Works, among them are James R. Powell, C.B. Boutwell, J. Hobbie, C.L. Lucas, R.C. Bolling, Joseph A. Green, and J.M. Harbin. Included are a large number of vouchers for freight and passage on riverboats such as the Clipper, the Demopolis, the Virginia, the Senator, the Coquette, the Flirt, the Alice Vivian, the Jeff Davis, and the Robert E. Lee. Also included are railroad invoices from the Alabama and Florida, the Mobile and Great Northern, and the Montgomery and West Point Railroads. Also included are invoices from the Battle House and the LaFayette House, hotels where the Commissioners frequently stayed during trips to Mobile.

ArchivalResource: 1 cubic ft. (1 records center carton).

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Wadsworth, George. Map of Alabama showing its railroads and their connections northeast, 1858.

Title: Map of Alabama showing its railroads and their connections northeast, 1858.

Map, 1858 Sep. 1, covering the area of Ala. extending from the southwestern corner diagonally across the state to the northwestern portion of Ala. A small section of southern Tenn. and the northwestern portion of Ga. are also depicted. No scale is given, but a table of distances for select cities is provided. Topographical features illustrated include mountains, mountain gaps, waterways, bluffs, shoals and bends. Also depicted are communities, post offices, roads, ferries, landings, mines, mills, indian mounds, churches, academies and quarries. The railroads charted include the Mobile & Ohio, the Mobile & Great Northern, the Pensacola & Montgomery, the Alabama & Mississippi, the Alabama & Tennessee River, the Coosa & Tennessee River, the Jacksonville & Dalton, the East Tennessee & Georgia, the Cleveland & Chattanooga, the Nashville & Chattanooga, the Memphis & Charleston, the Western Atlantic, the Montgomery & Westpoint, and the Rome Railroads. Also depicted are the proposed routes of the Northeast & Southwest, and the C. & C. Railroads. Maps are color coded to designate railroads, waterways and roads.

ArchivalResource: 1 map : col., ink on linen, encapsulated ; 49 x 74 cm.

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