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Hezzikiah Wiggins Feb 2024

Hezzikiah Wiggins

African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia

No abstract provided.


Mr. Vincent Keith Thomas Feb 2024

Mr. Vincent Keith Thomas

African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia

Vincent Keith Thomas had a graveside service.


Johnny Solomon Hendrix Jan 2024

Johnny Solomon Hendrix

African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia

No abstract provided.


Vernell Tremble Culver Jan 2022

Vernell Tremble Culver

African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia

No abstract provided.


Ethel Mae Hunter Dec 2021

Ethel Mae Hunter

African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia

No abstract provided.


Lonnie Brown Jr. Jul 2021

Lonnie Brown Jr.

African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia

No abstract provided.


Evancy Collins Tremble Aug 2020

Evancy Collins Tremble

African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia

Evancy Collins Tremble had a graveside service


Harriett Miller Thompson Feb 2020

Harriett Miller Thompson

African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia

No abstract provided.


Jacob Edward Crawford Sr. Jan 2020

Jacob Edward Crawford Sr.

African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia

No abstract provided.


Making “The Garden City Of The South”: Beautification, Preservation, And Downtown Planning In Augusta, Georgia, J. Mark Souther Oct 2019

Making “The Garden City Of The South”: Beautification, Preservation, And Downtown Planning In Augusta, Georgia, J. Mark Souther

History Faculty Publications

This article illuminates how a smaller southern city engaged broader planning approaches. Civic leaders, especially women, pushed and partnered with municipal administrations to beautify Augusta, Georgia, a city with extraordinarily wide streets and a long tradition of urban horticulture. Their efforts in the 1900s to 1950s, often in concert with close by planners, led to a confluence of urban beautification, historic preservation, and downtown revitalization in the 1960s. This coordinated activity reshaped Augusta’s cityscape, exacerbated racial tensions, and enshrined principles of the City Beautiful, Garden City, and parks movements long after they receded in large cities, influencing the work of …


Helen Mcclain Wilson Nov 2018

Helen Mcclain Wilson

African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia

No abstract provided.


Dorothy Singleton-Belle Sep 2018

Dorothy Singleton-Belle

African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia

Interment: Bonaventure Cemetery


Christopher Williams Jr. Jul 2018

Christopher Williams Jr.

African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia

No abstract provided.


Mary Etta David Jun 2018

Mary Etta David

African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia

No abstract provided.


Tom Ellison Jr. Sep 2017

Tom Ellison Jr.

African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia

No abstract provided.


Linda G. Williams Brockett Sep 2017

Linda G. Williams Brockett

African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia

Interment at Charlestown U.M. Cemetery


Mrs. Emma Lou Oglesby Jun 2017

Mrs. Emma Lou Oglesby

African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia

No abstract provided.


Viola Phyllis Johnson Brown Apr 2017

Viola Phyllis Johnson Brown

African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia

No abstract provided.


George W. Thompson Jr. Nov 2016

George W. Thompson Jr.

African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia

No abstract provided.


Gladys Lee Brown Nov 2016

Gladys Lee Brown

African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia

No abstract provided.


Verdell Mincey Sr. Jun 2016

Verdell Mincey Sr.

African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia

No abstract provided.


Emmanuel Agyemang Mar 2016

Emmanuel Agyemang

African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia

Interment: Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, GA.


Lillian B. Holmes Jan 2016

Lillian B. Holmes

African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia

No abstract provided.


Herman Benemon Oct 2014

Herman Benemon

African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia

No abstract provided.


Antoinette Maria Burns "Mone" Oct 2014

Antoinette Maria Burns "Mone"

African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia

Interment: Woodville Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia.


Inez Pierce Williams Feb 2014

Inez Pierce Williams

African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia

No abstract provided.


Janie R. Toomer Jun 2012

Janie R. Toomer

African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia

No abstract provided.


Frenchye Mason Bynes May 2012

Frenchye Mason Bynes

African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia

No abstract provided.


Myrtle S. Coke Apr 2012

Myrtle S. Coke

African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia

No abstract provided.


Donald Lavert Gray Jan 2012

Donald Lavert Gray

African American Funeral Programs, Willow Hill Heritage & Renaissance Center, Bulloch County, Georgia

No abstract provided.