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| Title: | Greene St., looking east from Center St., Augusta, Ga. Greene Street, looking east from Center Street, Augusta, Ga. |
| Date: | 1900-1914 |
| Description: |
Turn-of-the-twentieth century streetscape image looking east on Greene Street in Augusta, Georgia. Signers Monument appears in the distance. Located on Greene Street, Signers Monument recognizes Georgia's three signatories of the Declaration of Independence: George Walton, Lyman Hall, and Button Gwinnett. The granite obelisk monument was designed by Robert French, and dedicated July 4, 1848. Additionally, Signers Monument marks the final resting place for George Walton and Lyman Hall. Original postcard scanned and described by the Digital Library of Georgia as a part of Georgia HomePLACE: an initiative of the Georgia Public Library Service and GALILEO. |
| Subjects: | Greene Street (Augusta, Ga.)--Pictorial works | Signers Monument (Augusta, Ga.) | Walton, George, 1749 or 50-1804--Monuments--Georgia--Augusta | Gwinnett, Button, ca. 1735-1777--Monuments--Georgia--Augusta | Hall, Lyman, 1724-1790--Monuments--Georgia--Augusta | Picture postcards | Augusta (Ga.) | Richmond County (Ga.) |
| Contributors: | East Central Georgia Regional Library (Augusta, Ga.) | Digital Library of Georgia | Picturing Augusta Collection (Digital Library of Georgia) |
| Online publisher: | [Athens, Ga.] : Digital Library of Georgia, 2005. |
| Original material: | 1 postcard : col. ill. Greene St., looking east from Center St., Augusta, Ga. Augusta : Albion News Company, [between 1900 and 1914] Picturing Augusta: historic postcards from the collection of the East Central Georgia Regional Library. |
| Rights: | Cite as: [title of postcard], Augusta and Environs Picture Post Cards in Color, East Central Central Georgia Regional Library,
as presented in the Digital Library of Georgia. |
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