The Courthouse and the Depot: The Architecture of Hope in an Age of Despair : a Narrative Guide to Railroad Expansion and Its Impact on Public Architecture in Georgia, 1833-1910

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Mercer University Press, 2001 - 613 էջ
"Strictly speaking, this is not an architectural history. Rather, it is history narrated by architecture. This is a book about small towns because the history of the South before 1910 is about small towns. It is a book about courthouses because the courthouse, more than any other building of the era, symbolized the collective self-image of the people of these towns. It is a book about depots because the depot is the architecture of the railroad, and in this period, for these people, in these places, the railroad brought with it the all-consuming and often disappointing promise of the future."--Jacket.
 

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The Georgia Railroad
23
The Central of Georgia Railroad
61
The Monroe Railroad
91
The Western and Atlantic Railroad
111
The Atlanta and West Point Railroad
143
The Southwestern Railroad
161
The Atlantic and Gulf Railroad
199
Reconstruction Railroads 18651873
231
The Macon and Northern Railroad
407
The Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad
417
The Macon Dublin and Savannah Railroad
425
The Savannah Americus and Montgomery Railroad
433
The Buena Vista and Ellaville Railroad
457
The Wrightsville and Tennille and The Augusta Gibson and Sandersville Railroad
465
The Georgia Carolina and Northern Railroad
475
The Southeastern Georgia Tidewater
485

The Macon and Augusta Railroad
233
The Macon and Brunswick Railroad
245
The Brunswick and Albany Railroad
267
The Atlanta and Richmond Air Line
277
Reconstruction Extensions Short Lines
293
The Railroads and the Myth of the New South 1875191O
313
The Northeastern Railroad
315
The Elberton Air Line
325
The East Tennessee Virginia and Georgia Railroad
339
The Gainesville Jefferson and Southern Railroad
353
Chattanooga to Columbus
363
The Marietta and North Georgia Railway
383
The Atlanta and Florida Railroad
397
Short Lines in Eastern Georgia
493
The Georgia Florida Alabama Railroad
507
The Mountains of North Central Georgia
515
The Georgia and Florida Railway
525
The Atlanta Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad
533
The Atlanta and Savannah Railroad
549
Georgia Courthouses Chronological Listing
555
Georgia Courthouses Alphabetically by County
565
Georgia Courthouses 18701910 Listed by Architect
574
Selected Historical Bibliography
581
Selected Architectural Bibliography
593
Index
597
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Էջ 3 - But above all, the courthouse: the center, the focus, the hub; sitting looming in the center of the county's circumference like a single cloud in its ring of horizon, laying its vast shadow to the uttermost rim of horizon; musing, brooding, symbolic and ponderable, tall as cloud, solid as rock, dominating all: protector of the weak, judiciate and curb of the passions and lusts, repository and guardian of the aspirations and the hopes...
Էջ 78 - To corps commanders alone is intrusted the power to destroy mills, houses, cotton gins, etc., and for them this general principle is laid down : In districts and neighborhoods where the army is unmolested no destruction of such property should be permitted ; but should guerrillas or bushwhackers molest our march, or should the inhabitants...
Էջ 78 - ... or bushwhackers molest our march, or should the inhabitants burn bridges, obstruct roads, or otherwise manifest local hostility, then army commanders should order and enforce a devastation more or less relentless according to the measure of such hostility.
Էջ 78 - As for horses, mules, wagons, etc., belonging to the inhabitants, the cavalry and artillery may appropriate freely and without limit; discriminating, however, between the rich, who are usually hostile, and the poor and industrious, usually neutral or friendly.
Էջ 2 - Through new false-teeth of Alabama limestone — The haircloth lap-robe weeps on a Ford radiator — But I have seen the old Courthouse. I have seen The flyspecked windows and the faded flag Over the judge's chair, touched the scuffed walls, Spat in the monumental brass spittoons And smelt the smell that never could be aired, Although one opened windows for a year, The unforgettable, intangible Mixture of cheap cigars, worm-eaten books, Sweat, poverty, negro hair-oil, grief and law. I have seen the...
Էջ 5 - One of the most significant inventions of the New South was the 'Old South' — a new idea in the eighties, and a legend of incalculable potentialities.

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