Southern Alabama Emigration and Development Company letters
Collection
Identifier: W-0002
Scope and Contents
This collection contains letters written primarily by John M. Green of the Southern Alabama Emigration and Development Company, based in Chicago, Illinois, to Thomas J. Scott and Sons in Montgomery, Alabama, in the late nineteenth century.
The letters, written between 10 February and 29 October 1897, discuss a variety of real estate development projects proposed by the Southern Alabama Emigration and Development Company in the Mobile, Loxley, and Perdido areas of south Alabama with their agents in Montgomery. They also discuss the very real hazards and hardships that the almost annual yellow fever outbreaks imposed on those living in south Alabama and how the inevitable quarantines would affect their ability to sell land and property there.
The letters, written between 10 February and 29 October 1897, discuss a variety of real estate development projects proposed by the Southern Alabama Emigration and Development Company in the Mobile, Loxley, and Perdido areas of south Alabama with their agents in Montgomery. They also discuss the very real hazards and hardships that the almost annual yellow fever outbreaks imposed on those living in south Alabama and how the inevitable quarantines would affect their ability to sell land and property there.
Dates
- 1897
Creator
- Summers, E.A. (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
none
Biographical / Historical
The Southern Alabama Emigration and Development Company was based in Chicago, Illinois, in the 1890s and was very active in purchasing land along the Gulf Coast with an eye toward creating and developing communities there, particularly for northerners wanting to escape the bitterly cold winters. To do this they employed agents in the targeted locales to carry out the face-to-face negotiations with the property owners and to accommodate potential northern clients. Thomas J. Scott and Sons was one of these local agencies employed by Southern Alabama Emigration and Development.
Thomas J. Scott and Sons was a firm dealing with real estate and other development projects, based in Montgomery, Alabama.
Thomas J. Scott and Sons was a firm dealing with real estate and other development projects, based in Montgomery, Alabama.
Extent
0.1 Linear Feet (55 letters; 63 pages)
Language of Materials
English
Overview
Letters of this Chicago, Illinois, based company to their agents in Montgomery, Alabama, concerning land development projects in southern Alabama in the late nineteenth century.
Physical Location
The A. S. Williams III Americana Collection, Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library, The University of Alabama
Provenance
gift of A. S. Williams III, 2010
General
Title on spine: Development of Loxley, Alabama, 1897
Processed by
Haley Aaron and Martha Bace, 2013
Source
- Williams, A. S., III (Donor, Person)
Creator
- Summers, E.A. (Person)
- Green, John M. (Person)
- Williams, A. S., III (Collector, Person)
- Southern Alabama Emigration and Development Company (Organization)
- Title
- Guide to the Southern Alabama Emigration and Development Company letters
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- August 2013
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections Repository