 Volume 25, No. 1 • Spring 2007 BIG CHANGES ARE COMING to 136 Main Street in LaGrange!The building at 136 Main Street in LaGrange is about to have its first extensive changes since the renovation twenty-five years ago which led to the Troup County Archives opening in January 1983. The first floor of the building will be extensively renovated to become the new home for Museum on Main: A History Museum for West Georgia. Public meeting rooms on the second floor will be converted into library and office space for the Troup County Archives. Storage areas on the third floor will remain generally unchanged.Renovations are expected to start this summer and will last nine to twelve months. Skip Smith of Smith Design Group is serving as the architect of the project. This project has been in the planning stages for several years! Many people are hard at work trying to make these plans and dreams a reality! New Publications
Scanning Project UnderwayAs announced earlier, the Troup County Archives is the recipient of a grant from the National Historical Records and Publications Commission to digitize Troup County’s Nineteenth Century court records. As a requirement to receive the grant, we had to match the funds in various ways, including having volunteers donate time toward preparing the documents for scanning. The major step in preparing the documents was to “flatten” them out. Originally, the documents were folded about three times or more.Our appeal for volunteers was more than met. A total of eleven people came forward to help. They were Sharon Alford, Jan Carnes, Jonathan Cox, Walter Dance, Terry Glisman, Lala Grindle, Paula Jones, Tina Quiggle, Chuck Stradcutter, and Bill and Melba Templeton. Some were only able to help once or twice, and some several times. They donated a total of 349.5 hours to the project, with five of our volunteers providing over 318 of the total hours, for an average of nearly 64 hours each. The leading volunteer hours were Walter Dance, with 77 hours; Tina Quiggle, with 68.5 hours; Terry Glisman, with 64.75 hours; Paula Jones, with 55.75 hours; and Chuck Stradcutter, with 52.75 hours. Groups met three hours daily, expect Wednesdays, from January 9th through March 22nd. There were 159 boxes of records to go through and flatten. In addition to flattening the documents, the workers inserted acid free paper between each case. The added bulk meant that some boxes had to be re-boxed, so the end result was 189 boxes of documents. An appreciation luncheon was held on April 12th for those volunteers who could attend. The importance of this project is incalculable. When the scanning is done, the records will be available for researchers on line which will insure that the information they contain will be more easily made into the overall picture of life in Georgia, especially Troup County, in the nineteenth century. We cannot thank our volunteers enough for their generosity in making this project a reality. Troup County people always rise to the occasion when a worthy project needs them! For more information on the project, check our project blog at: http://troupscanning.blogspot.com/ Check it out!  TROUP COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP 2007GovernorDr. & Mrs. J. Harvey SaundersThe Devereaux F. and Dorothy M. McClatchey Foundation SenatorCallaway Family AssociationCallaway Gardens Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Harris, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Bart Macomber PatriotMs. Pat AlversonC B & T Mrs. George S. Cobb, Jr. Community Bank & Trust Drs. Julian & Sue Duttera FounderMr. Jerry Cleaveland, Cleaveland InsuranceMr. & Mrs. Sidney Gay Mr. Grover A. Hobbs Mr. & Mrs. Charles McLeod Mr. & Mrs. Greg Minchew Dr. Leland M. Park Mr. & Mrs. William B. Petry Mr. & Mrs. Jay Russell SunTrust Bank Mr. & Mrs. Richard V. Torrance SustainingMrs. Claire BeallMrs. J. K. Boatwright, Jr. Hon. & Mrs. Jeff Brown Mr. Peck Brumby Mr. & Mrs. H. Speer Burdette, III Mr. & Mrs. Edward Callaway Mr. & Mrs. Hugh Camp Mr. & Mrs. Bobby Carmichael Mrs. Lillian Cauble Mr. J. Philip Cleaveland Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Colgrove Mr. & Mrs. Earl P. Cook Dr. & Mrs. Robert B. Copeland Ms. Jane Alice Craig Mrs. Julia Dyar Mr. & Mrs. Robert Ellis Mr. & Mrs. Alec Evans Dr. & Mrs. William Fackler Selma and Thomas Gore Mr. & Mrs. Oliver Greene Dr. & Mrs. F. Stuart Gulley Mr. & Mrs. Frank C. Harrell Mr. & Mrs. Pat Holder Mr. & Mrs. Charles D. Hudson Dr. & Mrs. William L. Hutchinson Dr. & Mrs. Richard Ingram Mr. Barry Jackson Mrs. Elizabeth Banks Jarrell Mr. Jerry Johnson Mr. & Mrs. F.C. Johnson, III Mr. & Mrs. Fred Jones Nancy and Kit Kesler Dr. & Mrs. James Killebrew Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Knight Mr. & Mrs. Louis Lester, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Eiland G. Lipham Mrs. Sue Long Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Malone Mr. & Mrs. Kendrick W. Mattox, Jr. Lt. Col. Jack McDonald Mr. & Mrs. John C. McKibben Mrs. Betty Jo Murphy Mr. & Mrs. Curtis Myhand Mrs. Glenna J. Parkins Mr. H. Pope Richter Drs. Eugene & Margaret Schaufler Mr. & Mrs. W. B. Shedd Mr. & Mrs. Gordon M. Smith, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Ellis Smith Mr. & Mrs. Roger C. Stephens Mr. & Mrs. Charles Stevens Mr. & Mrs. James Stogner Mr. Allan Struletz Mr. & Mrs. John Taylor Mr. & Mrs. Bill Terrell Mr. & Mrs. Robert Walters Mr. Frost Ward Dr. & Mrs. Tom West Mr. & Mrs. Calvin Wingo SponsorDr. & Mrs. Jung H. AhnMrs. Ethyl Ault Mr. Lewis L. Banks Mr. & Mrs. Wayne Bartley Mr. & Mrs. Edwin Batchelor Dr. & Mrs. Paul Baxter Mr. & Mrs. Ted Beason Drs. Jon & Kay Birkeli Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Bushar Mr. & Mrs. Zim Cauble Mrs. Anne A. Cleaveland Mr. & Mrs. Robert Condra Miss Katherine Cook Mr. & Mrs. Jim Crane Mr. Larry Daniel Mrs. Jane Crayton Davis Dr. & Mrs. James Doerr Mr. & Mrs. Marvin Edelson Mr. & Mrs. Mack Paul Efland, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Charles Foster Mr. & Mrs. Paul French Dr. & Mrs. Garnett J. Giesler Mr. & Mrs. Cliff C. Glover Mr. & Mrs. Lee Grover Mrs. Susan G. Hall Mr. & Mrs. Owen C. Holleran Mr. Alex S. Hopkins Mr. Frederick D. Hoppe, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Ramsey Jennings Mr. & Mrs. Jake Jones Mr. & Mrs. Walton Knight Mrs. Joseph H. Kyle Mr. & Mrs. Don Lee Dr. & Mrs. Werner Linz Mr. Earl Marsh Mr. & Mrs. William L. Martin Dr. & Mrs. David Martin Dr. & Mrs. William J. Martin Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth McGreevy Revs. Bill McLemore & Lori Lowe Mr. & Mrs. Alfred McNair Mrs. Judith Merrill Mr. & Mrs. Dusty Mills Dr. & Mrs. James C. Morgan Ms. Josievet Moss Mrs. John R. Newman Dr. & Mrs. Roy Nichols Dr. & Mrs. J.M. Overall Mr. Ben H. Parham Mr. & Mrs. Loren Pinkerman Dr. & Mrs. Thomas N. Pirkle Mr. & Mrs. Leon Pitts Dr. & Mrs. Cliff Rainey Mr. & Mrs. Franklin Reese Ms. Julia Ann Reeves Mr. & Mrs. William Slack Mr. & Mrs. Tom Slagle Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Smith Mr. & Mrs. Roy Spinks, III Mr. & Mrs. Daniel C. Stark Mrs. Jane Strain Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Stubbs Ms. Jennie Wadsworth Mrs. Virginia Weldon Mrs. Nancy Yates BuilderMr. & Mrs. Marc E. AcreeDr. Sybil L. Allen Allen County Public Library Ms. Shelly Anello Mr. & Mrs. Michael Angstadt Dr. & Mrs. J. Edward Bass Mr. & Mrs. Donald Bassett Mr. Gerald Becham Mr. & Mrs. Jim Biagi Mr. James T. Boyd Mr. & Mrs. Jamie Bradfield Ms. Dee Bradley Dr. & Mrs. Lloyd C. Brewton Ms. Malinda Brooks Ms. Carolyn Burgess Mr. Rusty Callaway Mrs. J. W. Carr Mr. & Mrs. Chris Cleaveland Mr. & Mrs. Wesley Cochran Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Crawford Mr. Charles T. Creekman Mrs. Sally L. Culpepper Mrs. Clara B. Daniel Mr. & Mrs. Tony Dattilo Mrs. Marian S. Davis Miss Sara E. Davis Jean & Joan DeMarrais Mrs. Louise Denney Ms. Susan Denney Downtown Development Authority Mr. & Mrs. Arthur B. Edge, III Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. Edge Capt. & Mrs. Joseph Fagundes Mr. & Mrs. Charles A. Ferguson Mr. Jim Franks/ JB Systems Dr. Richard A. Freeman Mr. William Freeman Ms. Sarah Funderburk Mr. & Mrs. Orren Gilbert Mr. & Mrs. Edmund Glover Mrs. Jane Gore Mr. & Mrs. Rocky Grace Mr. & Mrs. Danny Graddy Mr. & Mrs. Jackson Grady Mr. & Mrs. James T. Gresham Mr. & Mrs. William C. Guthrie Mr. & Mrs. George Haley Mr. & Mrs. Thelon A. Hamby Mrs. Martha Hartley Ms. Jaclyn Helmke Ms. Marianne Helms Dr. & Mrs. George Henry Mr. & Mrs. Phil Herrington Ms. Mary Ellen Hill Mr. & Mrs. William F. Holle, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. W. B. Houze, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Howard Mr. and Mrs. John W. Huckstep Mrs. Tom Hutchinson Ms. Polly Hutchinson Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Ingram Mrs. Yolanda K. Jabaley Mr. A. Stephen Johnson Mrs. Rachel M. Jones Mrs. Ida F. T. Jones Mrs. S. Kelly Jordan Mr. & Mrs. Chris Joseph Judge and Mrs. Allen Keeble Mrs. Julia Keller Mr. & Mrs. John K. Lancaster Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Langford Mrs. Stephanie Lankford Ms. Sondra Lee Ms. Mary Lewey Mr. Richard Loftin Mr. & Mrs. Bill Lowe Mr. & Mrs. Keener Lynn Dr. & Mrs. Grant R. Major Mrs. Glenda Major Mr. & Mrs. G. Melville Major Dr. & Mrs. Paul Major Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Mallory Ms. Gayle Maner Mr. & Mrs. Nasor Mansour, Jr. Ms. Betty M. Mattox Mr. & Mrs. Mickey McCoy Mrs. Gay McDaniel Mr. & Mrs. Dewey R. McKenzie Mrs. Sara McKibben, Sr. Mrs. Mamie Meeker Dr. & Mrs. Fred Mills Mrs. Jack Mitchell Mr. & Mrs. Vincent Moon Mr. & Mrs. George R. Moore Ms. Dorothy D. Moore Mr. Donald Muller Dr. & Mrs. Walter Murphy Mr. & Mrs. Bob Myhand Mr. & Mrs Gardner Newman Mr. & Mrs. Raymond A. Newman Mr. Awbrey Norris Mrs. Betty J. Oetjen Mr. & Mrs. Gene Page Mr. & Mrs. Howard Park, Jr. Mrs. Marthanne Parker Mr. & Mrs. David Parker Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Pauley Mrs. John H. Peacock Ms. Claire Ray Mr. Don Russell Mrs. John J. Schuyler Mrs. Avery P. Sledge Mr. V. Hawley Smith Mrs. R. Woodrow Smith Mr. & Mrs. Calvin Spinks Ms. Anne H. Stich Mr. & Mrs. Charles Storey Mrs. James H. Swanson Mr. & Mrs. Horace Thom Mrs. Ferrell Towns Mr. & Mrs. H. Grady Traylor Mrs. Sybil Traylor Mrs. Elizabeth Traylor Mr. Gus Valeri Ms. Lynda Veal Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Vorhees Col. M. Reid Wallis Mrs. Gail Walsh Mr. & Mrs. Edward Waltemath Mr. Robert Weeks Mr. & Mrs. James C. Woodyard Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H. Woosley Mr. Richard H. Worrell Ms. Donna Wynne Ms. Patty Youngblood NOTE ON MEMBERSHIP:We greatly appreciate all of our members and donors! If you do not see you name listed above, it is time to renew your membership in the Troup County Historical Society. Also, beginning this year, all donors to 501(c)3 nonprofit agencies must receive acknowledgment of their donations. The Historical Society recently mailed receipts for donations made January 1 - March 31. If you have not received your letter, please let us know at 706-884-1828 or by e-mailing info@trouparchives.org.Membership in the TROUP COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY is open to all people interested in preserving Troup County’s heritage. Membership entitles you to a free subscription to the newsletter and invitations to Society functions. The Historical Society is a nonprofit agency. All memberships are tax-deductible. Mail checks to the Society at P.O. Box 1051, LaGrange, GA 30241 or you can charge to your credit card. Simply call at 706-884-1828 or send your name, address, card number, and expiration. CATEGORIES OF MEMBERSHIP ARE:Builder $25Sponsor $50 Sustaining $100 Founder $200 Patriot $300 Senator $500 Governor $1000 Marquis $5000
ARTIFACT SPOTLIGHT:Troup County Archives is proud to have as part of its holdings a collection dealing with the LaGrange Sports Authority, the “I Train In LaGrange” program, and the Olympic 50K Racewalk Trials held here. This collection documents the role LaGrange played in the 1996 Olympics, beginning in 1991, when they first began investigating how to bring the world to LaGrange. Documents cover the athletes who came here, how the community welcomed them, and how they interacted with locals. The Olympic Torch Run that came through Troup County is also covered. The collection includes subject files and correspondence, artifacts and memorabilia, as well as clippings and photographs related to the programs and various aspects of the whole period 1991-1997. The LaGrange Sports Authority gave LaGrange a significant connection to the Olympics and a spotlight in the world.
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