Robert M. Benson, Jr., Statesboro collection, 1920-1962 [manuscript]

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Robert M. Benson, Jr., Statesboro collection, 1920-1962 [manuscript]

Collection includes predominantly plats for properties dealt with by the Charles E. Cone Realty Company of Statesboro, especially of African American neighborhoods, Woodlawn Terrace and College Park, but also a 1920 aerial photograph and a 1930 Sanborn Fire Insurance map; family, business, and political correspondence (with Gov. E.D. Rivers, Sen. Richard Russell, and Congressmen Homer C. Parker and Hugh Peterson); 2 books owned by Maude Brannen Edge; information on insurance during those years; a three-sheet map of Clark Hill Reservoir, 1939; a floor plan of the Statesboro Provision Company; Cone Company ledgers from 1938-1945; and historic issues of Calhoun, Tifton, Madison and Savannah newspapers.

2 boxes.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8033319

Georgia Southern University

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Charles E. Cone Realty Company.

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Benson, Robert Moore.

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