Lee County Church, Oral and Great Flood Historical Materials Available via DLG
The Lee County Library Local History Collection is now available freely online through the Digital Library of Georgia.
The collection contains essential historic print items belonging to the Lee County Library in Leesburg, Ga., dating from 1784-2000. The materials include: regional Baptist and Methodist church histories, histories of the historic towns of Smithville and Starkville, Lee County oral histories, and documentation of the Great Flood of 1994 caused by Tropical Storm Alberto.
Bobbie Yandell, director of Archives at the Thronateeska Heritage Center in Albany, Ga. notes:
“The church histories, as well as the histories of Smithville and Starkville provide important information to early life in Lee County. These resources describe the roots of the county, as well as the citizens that resided in it. The materials concerning the Flood of 1994 display how our communities came together in a time of disaster. They show what our community is capable of when a collective effort to come together is mad. It is important that future generations are able to revisit these histories in order to both honor and remember what has been achieved by those who came before us.”