Greene County, Georgia - Historic photos, documents, and people

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What was once the "Big House" is now occupied by a family of white tenants who live in part of the crumbling mansion and farm a small piece of the nearby eroding fields. Greene County, Georgia

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Tenant family with six children who are rural rehabilitation clients of the Farm Security Administration. Greene County, Georgia

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Interior of a plantation house now vacant but for two rooms occupied by an old couple, tenants. Greene County, Georgia

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The cotton sharecropper's unit is one mule and the land he can cultivate with a one-horse plow. Greene County, Georgia

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Interior of plantation house now vacant but for two rooms occupied by an old couple. tenants, Greene County, Georgia

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Home of landowner, Greene County, Georgia. This man has owned his land since 1913. He has raised ten children here

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Abandoned coaches and wagons behind the old blacksmith shop on the Wray Plantation. Greene County, Georgia

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Southern lady of the old school on the veranda of the "Big House" of the Wray Plantation, Georgia

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Home of farmer who has raised cotton for fifty years on his own land. Greene County, Georgia

Greene County, Georgia Historic photos, documents, and people