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The subject files are topical files containing newspaper clippings and various secondary sources covering most aspects of life in DeKalb County. Subject Files cover topics such as churches, neighborhoods, schools, farms and businesses.


Box 91:

Archaeology Study - Creeks Indians at Stone Mountain

Brochures

"Colorful History of Stone Mountain and Its People," Walter McCurdy, Sr.

"Georgia: A Piece of the Rock," Morris Shelton

Geology Study

"How Stone Mountain Was Created," Poole Maynard

Miss Rutherford's Stone Mountain Scrapbook

Postcards of Stone Mountain

Salvage Project

"Stone Mountain," Willard Neal

"Stone Mountain," James Randall

Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial (see also box 89)

Stone Mountain Monolith of Prehistoric Times



Box 92:

Transportation:

Airmen of DeKalb
Airplane Noise in DeKalb
Bus Stations & Trailways
Eastern Airlines
Decatur and the Railroad
DeKalb Peachtree Airport
Georgia Power and the Railway
Plane Crashes
Railroads (Georgia Railroad, West Point Railroad)
Streetcars
Taxi Service

Box 93:

Transportation:

Automobiles

Covered Bridges

MARTA:

Assorted MARTA publications
Environmental Impact Statement
Impact on Decatur
Maps
South DeKalb - Lindbergh Corridor Report

Box 94:

Transportation - Roads and Streets:
Austin Drive History
Early Roads
Georgia 400
Interstates I-285 & I-85
Johns Road (Rehobath Community)
LaVista Road
Memorial Road
North Decatur Road
North Druid Hills Road
Northlake Roads
Peachtree Road
Ponce de Leon
Presidential Parkway (including Environmental Impact)
Rockbridge Road
Suburban Roads 

Box 95:

Transportation:

State Highway Department of Georgia reports to The General Assembly (1943-1956)


Note: these volumes include several photographs of the building of the road system in Georgia)


Box 96:

Wars:

Korean War:
List of casualties from DeKalb
Revolutionary War:
"Georgia in the Revolutionary War"
Revolutionary War land lot winners
Revolutionary War veterans buried in DeKalb
Vietnam War:
Dedication of the Vietnam Memorial in Decatur
List of DeKalb POW's and KIA's

Box 97:

Wars - Civil War

DeKalb Soldiers:
Article on DeKalb Units in the Civil War
Confederate Veterans living in DeKalb, 1908 (index cards)
DeKalb Militia Census - 1863
History of 42nd Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry
Muster Rolls:

Cobb's Legion, Company C
DeKalb Silver Grays
5th Georgia Volunteers
7th Georgia, Company E
8th Regiment, Company H, GA State Guards
56th Georgia, Company A
Copies of muster rolls of all DeKalb units


Southern Claims Commission - DeKalb Claims
St. Helena Rifles

Box 98:

Wars - Civil War:
Battle of Atlanta
Battle of Decatur (two folders of materials, including article on the 3rd Maryland Artillery in the battle)
Chickamauga Battlefield
Griswoldville
Great Locomotive Chase
Kennesaw Mountain
Sweetwater Creek State Park

Box 99:

Wars - Civil War:
Artists and Artwork:

Cyclorama
Wilbur Kurtz paintings

Black Soldiers
Camp Life and Camp Kirkpatrick
Confederates in Brazil
Evans, Clement
Farnham Brothers
Gordon, John B.
March to the Sea
Orphan's Brigade
Roswell Women
Stephens, Alexander
U.S.S. Cairo
Veterans and Widows
Wheeler, Joseph

Box 100:

Wars - World War One
Camp Gordon (US Naval Air Station, Lawson Hospital, Peachtree DeKalb Airport):

Signature Book (includes Scott Candler, Sr.)

Decatur Guards:

Meeting Minutes, 1917-1918

General information
DeKalb citizens in the first national army (list)
DeKalb casualties in WWI (list)
Fort Macpherson
Fort Wheeler (large photograph)
Georgia St. Guards
Misc. documents (German bonds, John Cunyers letters)
Poster (original - hung at the Ford Motor Assembly Building on Ponce)

Box 101:

Wars - WWII:
Army Publication on Vehicle Maintenance (1947)
Decatur USO scrapbook
DeKalb casualties in WWII (list)
DeKalb Civil Defense Corps
Georgia State Guards
Pearl Harbor Memorial
Plaque on Courthouse Square
SOS Scrapbook
War Ration Books

Box 102:

Water System and Weather:

Decatur Waterworks

DeKalb Water System:

DeKalb Waterworks
Silver Lake River Basin
Sewer System in DeKalb
Government Reports:
DeKalb Water and Sewerage Bonds, 1978
DeKalb Water and Sewer System (1977)
Energy Efficiency Study (1978)
Floods in Georgia (1951)
Water Resources of the Atlanta Metropolitan Area, by Carter and Herrick
Peavine Watershed Alliance:
Grier's Almanac (misc. issues, 1904-1941)



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