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Fort Valley, Georgia, 1895. As this Central of Georgia Railroad marketing p...
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in Fresh Fruit and Rotten Railroads: Fruit Growers, Populism, and the Future of the New South
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Published: 01 May 2022
Figure 1. Fort Valley, Georgia, 1895. As this Central of Georgia Railroad marketing photo shows, orchards were often massive enterprises requiring vast amounts of capital. Photograph by O. Pierre Havens. Source: Stovall, Fruits of Industry , n.p.
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Map of Central Railroad of Georgia, 1895. The Central Railroad of Georgia r...
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Figure 3. Map of Central Railroad of Georgia, 1895. The Central Railroad of Georgia ran directly through the heart of Georgia peach country and served as the primary carrier of produce by rail or in its steamships out of Savannah. Its monopolistic power over growers was only strengthened
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Plain Folk’s Fight: The Civil War and Reconstruction in Piney Woods Georgia
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (2): 265–266.
Published: 01 April 2008
...Monica R. Gisolfi Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 Plain Folk’s Fight: The Civil War and Reconstruction in Piney Woods Georgia . Mark V. Wetherington . 2008 BookReviews ganic farming, and sustainability movements have their codes of acceptable conduct, sharing some...
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Rails through the Wiregrass: A History of the Georgia & Florida Railroad
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (4): 542–543.
Published: 01 October 2008
... ship, or just plain struggling to survive. The story of theG&F began in 1906, when itwas patched together from a number of logging short line roads to create a system of over three hun dred fiftymiles stretching fromAugusta, Georgia toMadison, Florida. John Skelton Williams, scion of a prominent...
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"Swing the Sickle for the Harvest is Ripe": Gender and Slavery in Antebellum Georgia
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (2): 257–258.
Published: 01 April 2009
...Loren Schweninger "Swing the Sickle for the Harvest is Ripe": Gender and Slavery in Antebellum Georgia . Daina Ramey Berry . 2009 BookReviews andpost-industrisaolcietiesand identifietshecentralproblemofhistorians andallothersinhighereducationc:reatingan academicculturethatprovides...
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The Short Life of Free Georgia: Class and Slavery in the Colonial South
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (1): 200–202.
Published: 01 January 2019
...David B. Parker The Short Life of Free Georgia: Class and Slavery in the Colonial South . By Noeleen McIlvenna . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2016 . 158 pp., $24.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-4696-2403-7. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019 200...
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“No One Was on Their Own”: Sociability among Rural African American Women in Middle Georgia during the Interwar Years
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (3): 437–451.
Published: 01 July 2019
...Chrissy Lutz; Dawn Herd-Clark Abstract Social interactions among African American women in Georgia’s Black Belt during the years between the world wars helped those women to improve their lives. Fort Valley State College and the Extension Service of the United States Department of Agriculture...
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The Georgia Peach: Culture, Agriculture, and Environment in the American South
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (1): 131–132.
Published: 01 January 2018
...Christopher C. Meyers The Georgia Peach: Culture, Agriculture, and Environment in the American South . By William Thomas Okie . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2016 . 316 pp., $34.99 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-1070-7172-8 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018 Book...
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Under the Trees: The Georgia Peach and the Quest for Labor in the Twentieth Century
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (1): 72–101.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Tom Okie Abstract The Georgia peach boom around the turn of the twentieth century was often hailed as a successful experiment in diversification. Peach growers, the story went, threw off the tyranny of King Cotton by pledging their allegiance to the “Queen of Fruits.” This portrayal is partly true...
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African American Life in the Georgia Lowcountry: The Atlantic World and the Gullah Geechee
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (2): 258–259.
Published: 01 April 2011
...Edda L. Fields-Black African American Life in the Georgia Lowcountry: The Atlantic World and the Gullah Geechee . Edited By Philip Morgan . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2010 . 368 pp., $34.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8203-3064-8 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011...
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“It was a Long Way from Perfect, but it was Working”: The Canning and Home Production Initiatives in Greene County, Georgia, 1940–1942
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (2): 68–90.
Published: 01 April 2012
...Clifford M. Kuhn Abstract During the early 1940s Greene County, Georgia's, Unified Farm Program, a model undertaking coordinating the efforts of federal, state, and local agencies, attracted national attention, largely through the work of sociologist Arthur Raper. At the core of the program...
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Cultivating Race: The Expansion of Slavery in Georgia, 1750–1860
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (1): 139–141.
Published: 01 January 2014
...Jenifer L. Barclay Cultivating Race: The Expansion of Slavery in Georgia, 1750–1860 . By Watson W. Jennison . Lexington : University Press of Kentucky , 2012 . 440 pp., $50.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8131-3426-0 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2014 2014 2014 Book Reviews...
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Fort Valley, Georgia, 1895. Fruit growing quickly led to the emergence of s...
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Figure 2. Fort Valley, Georgia, 1895. Fruit growing quickly led to the emergence of supporting industries like canning factories to use less marketable produce. The “very cheap” labor was a major component in attracting investment in the fruit industry. Photograph by O. Pierre Havens. Source
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Fort Valley, Georgia, 1895. The delicateness of peaches required “care and ...
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Figure 4. Fort Valley, Georgia, 1895. The delicateness of peaches required “care and skill” when packing them for shipment. Wages of a dollar a day made packing “profitable” work, but racism often limited this “light and congenial work” to only the most “eminently respectable class of people
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Near Macon, Georgia, 1895. The 1895 fruit crop was an “enormous” one, a fac...
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Figure 5. Near Macon, Georgia, 1895. The 1895 fruit crop was an “enormous” one, a fact overlooked by railroad leaders, who justified high freight rates by saying that growers' promises of increased production “did not materialize.” Photograph by O. Pierre Havens. Source: Stovall, Fruits
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Near Macon, Georgia, 1895. A main point of conflict between growers and rai...
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Figure 6. Near Macon, Georgia, 1895. A main point of conflict between growers and railroads revolved around higher costs associated with refrigerated cars like the one seen here. But the near monopoly of refrigerator cars held by companies like Armour & Co. of meat-packing fame left
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Soil erosion on a cleared hillside, north Georgia, 1930s. Hargrett Rare Boo...
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in Soils as Archives: Cultivating an Integrative Pedagogy for Soil History and Place-Based Education in Appalachia
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Published: 01 November 2023
figure 2. Soil erosion on a cleared hillside, north Georgia, 1930s. Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University Libraries, University of Georgia.
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Terrace maintenance on October 29, 1939, in Polk County, Georgia. Original ...
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in “The Undercurrent of Friction”: Bureaucratic Rivalry and the Rise of Federal Soil Conservation before the Dust Bowl
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Published: 01 February 2025
Figure 1. Terrace maintenance on October 29, 1939, in Polk County, Georgia. Original caption: “Farm hands building up low place in terrace with slip scrape on farm of W. N. Zuker, cooperator in Coosa River Soil Conservation District.” Photograph by B. King. Source: Douglas Helms Collection
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Fresh Fruit and Rotten Railroads: Fruit Growers, Populism, and the Future of the New South
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (1-2): 54–90.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Figure 1. Fort Valley, Georgia, 1895. As this Central of Georgia Railroad marketing photo shows, orchards were often massive enterprises requiring vast amounts of capital. Photograph by O. Pierre Havens. Source: Stovall, Fruits of Industry , n.p. ...
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Rural Sociology and Democratic Planning in the Third New Deal
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (4): 421–438.
Published: 01 October 2008
... states. Second, they evaluated the planning program in a few select counties. The richest assessment was Arthur F. Raper’s study of Greene County, Georgia, "Tenants of the Almighty." He found that, despite racism, the program made tremendous physical, economic, and psychological gains among the county’s...
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