Content Description The story of George Monroe Adams and his family can primarily start on the plantation farm his family owned in the McCrary District of Columbus, Georgia on Hamilton Road in the northern part of Muscogee county. The property was bought in 1918 by Charlotte Woodville Weems Adams, William Andrew Weems, her brother, and George Monroe Adams, her son. The two families were displaced by the US government from their land in Chattahoochee County when it acquired land for the future Ft. Benning. The...

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The materials in this collection show the development of the Columbus Botanical Garden on Weems Road in Columbus. Photographs of the original property show the 1896 house and the outbuildings. Aerial photographs show the garden development.