Photographs of Tallapoosa circa 1900

There exist a limited number of photographs of Tallapoosa from its "hey-day", circa 1900.  This page attempts to provide an index of these records.

Historic photos of Tallapoosa are collected in a wonderful book, To Be Continued...A Pictorial History of Tallapoosa, Georgia (1999).  This book is available ONLY from the Tallapoosa Historical Society for $20 plus postage.

Vanishing Georgia Collection
Georgia Division of Archives and History
Morrow, GA

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Tallapoosa, Georgia, circa 1890. This is an albumen print of a large number of people gather[ed] with horse and buggys in the middle of the street for an unknown event in front of the Tallapoosa Hotel.

Tallapoosa, ca. 1890. Piedmont Glass Company. It was owned and operated by the Georgia-Alabama Investment and Development Company.

Tallapoosa, March 22, 1890. View of Tallapoosa from the Georgia & Pacific House.

Tallapoosa, March 25,1890. View of the town from the furnace.

Tallapoosa, March 25, 1890. View of Broad Street in the Old Town section of Tallapoosa.

Tallapo[o]sa, March 25,1890. Black family sitting in front of their log cabin.

Tallapoosa, March 25, 1890. Wooden structure, possibly a home, has a chimney made of wood, too.

Tallapoosa, March 25, 1890. Road to Scanton's garden.

Tallapoosa, March 25, 1890. Scranton's Corner.

Tallapoosa, ca. 1891. Chambers & Fountain Dry Goods, Groceries and Hardware Store. M.M. Chambers was associated with this business. Note the delivery wagon at the side of the store.

Photograph of John Monroe Lipham holding John Robert Tuggle, Tallapoosa, Haralson County, Georgia, ca. 1900

Lithia Springs Hotel, Tallapoosa, Georgia. Pub. by The Whitman Co. ca. 1910. (Hotel was torn down in 1943.)

Steel Gang, "Foreman Bell," Southern P[i?]y, Tallapoosa Ga, 8-15-1913.

Tallapoosa, ca. 1915. Tallapoosa Cotton Mills.

Tallapoosa, ca. 1915. Looking north on Head Avenue. Waldrop's Pharmacy occupies site on the corner at the right. Note the early trucks parked in front of the businesses at the right.

Tallapoosa, ca. 1915. Tallapoosa Public School. It burned in 1928.

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The Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC also holds a collection of 14 photographs.

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