Wood W. Speed family farm; multiple views. Farm of 878 acres located in the Leaf River Community about 8 miles east of Collins, MS. Covington Co. Extension staff assisted with selection of farm family.
Aberdeen (Miss.); W. L. Watkins & Co. (Aberdeen, Miss.); African-Americans; Minstrels; Telegraph
White men, an African-American man, and a child standing outside W. L. Watkins & Co. in Aberdeen, Mississippi. A sign on the building advertises J. A. Coburn's Greater Minstrels.
Nottoway Plantation (La.); Randolph, John Hampden, 1813-1883; Sugar trade; John Shelby & Co. (Memphis, Tenn.); Bayou Goula (La.); Steamboats
Waybill for a wartime shipment of 20 hogsheads (about 135 bushels) of sugar from Nottoway, the plantation of John Hampden Randolph, a wealthy planter of Bayou Goula, Louisiana, to be shipped on the steamer Louisville to John Shelby & Co. in...
