Numbers tell the story

Eugenia Price wrote Historical Fiction (The Savannah Quartet) that brought two real families who lived in Savannah and Bartow County in the 19th century to life. These reports fill out the stories with facts and figures detailing that time in Savannah.

Annual Reports of the Mayor of Savannah, Georgia, 1855-1917
....(Majority of the reports are from 1881-1917)

"The annual reports of the Mayor of the city of Savannah Georgia for the years 1855-1917 include information on city activities and finances, commercial statistics, health, death, and illness statistics, and information on trade, public schools, weather, charitable institutions and city ordinances.

The documents also include reports of the City Attorney, the Police Department (including crime statistics), the City Engineer, the Fire Department (including statistics on fires and property losses), and the Board of Trade, among others."

The annual reports are from the collections of the University of Georgia Libraries and were microfilmed in 1995 as part of the SOLINET/ASERL Cooperative Microfilming Project (NEH PS-20317). The images presented here were scanned from microfilm. This site currently contains only the holdings available on microfilm, but additional dates may be added in the future.

Database provider: GALILEO and The Digital Library of Georgia