Time Travel to Smith Family Farm

We’re excited to announce the debut of a new daily visitor experience at Smith Family Farm that’s part of the AHC’s new interpretive program initiative, Meet the Past.

Travel back in time as you interact with historic characters, including members of the Smith family; enslaved men and women who lived on the farm; farm neighbors; and other people during the Civil War. Presented in an authentic setting and based on historical documents and records from the Kenan Research Center, the living history characters share personal stories, perspectives, and highlights of what life was like 150 years ago.

As you get to know the residents of Smith Family Farm, you will truly experience everyday life as they demonstrate – and you take part in – seasonal activities and chores at the farm. This includes work by each of the men, women, children, and enslaved on the Working Farm, such as weaving, open-hearth cooking, blacksmithing, woodworking, basket weaving, sewing, washing clothes, natural dyeing, candle making, crop and garden planting, weeding, harvesting, or food preservation, including canning, pickling, and salting.

The animals at Smith Family Farm are the same breeds that were raised on farms in the Georgia Piedmont in the 1860s. We invite you to come and meet our newest additions: two adult Gulf Coast sheep and their two lambs, as well as the farm’s brood of chickens and rooster.

New open-house tours encourage a leisurely exploration of the Tullie Smith farmhouse as living history characters talk about daily life on the farm. Because of this new interpretation, daily tours now operate from 11:00 am - 4:00 pm on an open-house format, meaning that timed tours are no longer necessary and visitors can enjoy the house and entire farm at their own pace and interest. Nevertheless, guided tours for groups of ten or more are still available through the admissions desk.
 
Please visit us soon for time travel to the Civil War at Smith Family Farm.Learn more: http://ow.ly/l3qVK

From the Archives: Civil War Letter

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Adairsville, GA

May 14th 1863
Dear Wife,
I only have time to write a few lines. Our command will pass Atlanta to day - I am so afflicted with boils I have to go to the Hospital at Rome. I will try + get a transfer from Rome to Atlanta as I would be so glad to see you all before I go to Mississippi where our Regt + the 29th are ordered. We left Cousin Bob Vance sick at Shelbyville. He has Typhoid Fever. I did hope they would send me to Atlanta but they send every other day to Atlanta. I will try and send this by Adjt Harden I will write you when I get to Rome.
                            Affectionately yours       
                                JMD
Marietta
Dear Wife,
Since writing we have been ordered to Atlanta. I dont know what Hospital I will be taken too. I will try + get the surgeon to let me go out home if possible but if I should not get to go, come + see me - I am not sick but badly afflicted with risings and suffer a great deal of pain and it is with difficulty I walk. I am so proud to have the opportunity of getting to see you all once more. I want to get to home if it is only one day. One of our men was killed today running under a bridge above Ringgold. The Regt will remain in Atlanta till to morrow. Excuse haste.
                            Your Husband   
                                JMD

Here’s a rare photo of Jacobs’ Pharmacy, where the first Coca-Cola fountain drink was sold on May 8, 1886. According to The Coca-Cola Company website, Dr. John Pemberton, an Atlanta pharmacist, “carried a jug of the new product down the street to Jacobs’ Pharmacy, where it was sampled, pronounced “excellent” and placed on sale for five cents a glass.” Jacobs’ Pharmacy was located on the southwest corner of Peachtree and Marietta Streets in Atlanta. The Atlanta History Center’s Kenan Research Center houses the Joseph and Sinclair Jacobs Papers. The majority of this collection documents the professional activities of Dr. Joseph Jacobs, and his son Sinclair Jacobs as proprietors of Jacobs’ Pharmacy in Atlanta. Among the official records of Jacobs’ Pharmacy are samples of labels for products, a notebook and loose papers containing formulae for medicines and cosmetics, product catalogs, copies of Jacob’s Monthly Magazine, and official correspondence. The collection also contains personal items of Joseph and Sinclair Jacobs, including professional journals such as Drug Topics, and the American Journal of Pharmacy. Also included are newspaper clippings, and speeches and writings authored by Joseph Jacobs on the subjects of Crawford Long, The Coca-Cola Company, and medical drugs used during the Civil War. Browse our collection.
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Here’s a rare photo of Jacobs’ Pharmacy, where the first Coca-Cola fountain drink was sold on May 8, 1886. According to The Coca-Cola Company website, Dr. John Pemberton, an Atlanta pharmacist, “carried a jug of the new product down the street to Jacobs’ Pharmacy, where it was sampled, pronounced “excellent” and placed on sale for five cents a glass.” Jacobs’ Pharmacy was located on the southwest corner of Peachtree and Marietta Streets in Atlanta.

The Atlanta History Center’s Kenan Research Center houses the Joseph and Sinclair Jacobs Papers. The majority of this collection documents the professional activities of Dr. Joseph Jacobs, and his son Sinclair Jacobs as proprietors of Jacobs’ Pharmacy in Atlanta. Among the official records of Jacobs’ Pharmacy are samples of labels for products, a notebook and loose papers containing formulae for medicines and cosmetics, product catalogs, copies of Jacob’s Monthly Magazine, and official correspondence. The collection also contains personal items of Joseph and Sinclair Jacobs, including professional journals such as Drug Topics, and the American Journal of Pharmacy. Also included are newspaper clippings, and speeches and writings authored by Joseph Jacobs on the subjects of Crawford Long, The Coca-Cola Company, and medical drugs used during the Civil War.

Browse our collection.

Here’s a rare photo of Jacobs’ Pharmacy, where the first Coca-Cola fountain drink was sold on May 8, 1886. According to The Coca-Cola Company website, Dr. John Pemberton, an Atlanta pharmacist, “carried a jug of the new product down the street to Jacobs’ Pharmacy, where it was sampled, pronounced “excellent” and placed on sale for five cents a glass.” Jacobs’ Pharmacy was located on the southwest corner of Peachtree and Marietta Streets in Atlanta. The Atlanta History Center’s Kenan Research Center houses the Joseph and Sinclair Jacobs Papers. The majority of this collection documents the professional activities of Dr. Joseph Jacobs, and his son Sinclair Jacobs as proprietors of Jacobs’ Pharmacy in Atlanta. Among the official records of Jacobs’ Pharmacy are samples of labels for products, a notebook and loose papers containing formulae for medicines and cosmetics, product catalogs, copies of Jacob’s Monthly Magazine, and official correspondence. The collection also contains personal items of Joseph and Sinclair Jacobs, including professional journals such as Drug Topics, and the American Journal of Pharmacy. Also included are newspaper clippings, and speeches and writings authored by Joseph Jacobs on the subjects of Crawford Long, The Coca-Cola Company, and medical drugs used during the Civil War. Browse our collection.
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Here’s a rare photo of Jacobs’ Pharmacy, where the first Coca-Cola fountain drink was sold on May 8, 1886. According to The Coca-Cola Company website, Dr. John Pemberton, an Atlanta pharmacist, “carried a jug of the new product down the street to Jacobs’ Pharmacy, where it was sampled, pronounced “excellent” and placed on sale for five cents a glass.” Jacobs’ Pharmacy was located on the southwest corner of Peachtree and Marietta Streets in Atlanta.

The Atlanta History Center’s Kenan Research Center houses the Joseph and Sinclair Jacobs Papers. The majority of this collection documents the professional activities of Dr. Joseph Jacobs, and his son Sinclair Jacobs as proprietors of Jacobs’ Pharmacy in Atlanta. Among the official records of Jacobs’ Pharmacy are samples of labels for products, a notebook and loose papers containing formulae for medicines and cosmetics, product catalogs, copies of Jacob’s Monthly Magazine, and official correspondence. The collection also contains personal items of Joseph and Sinclair Jacobs, including professional journals such as Drug Topics, and the American Journal of Pharmacy. Also included are newspaper clippings, and speeches and writings authored by Joseph Jacobs on the subjects of Crawford Long, The Coca-Cola Company, and medical drugs used during the Civil War.

Browse our collection.

From the Archives: Civil War Letter

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Camp Near Lees Mills Va
April 24th 1863
Mr L. B. Underwood
Dear Father,

I seat my self to write you a few lines to let you know how I am geting along. I am a little sick now but I can get about. I think I will be well in a few days. Well the yankees are still laying around. A little fight occured on the 16th. It was in about four hundred yards of us. The Regs that engaged them was .11. ga. 15. N.C. 7. + 8. ga and the 16 ga and the Second La. The Col was killed. Our loss was about 20 killed and about 50 wounded. The fight was at a pond. The creek was damed up and as they charged through the pond they were shot in the water. I do not know there loss exacley. I heard that we got out 90 ded. They struck a bad streak when they tride to come through the pond. We have been looking for a general attack for some time. I have got to believe that they are affraid to attack us. We have a good force hear. Gen Jonson and his army is hear. I saw some of the boys in the 7 + 8 ga Regs. I saw Dave Smith, John Maguise, Dave Chanler and several others. I must come to a close. Write soon. Direct you letters to williamsburg va. Give my love to my brothers + sisters I remain as ever your son

        A. C. Underwood

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