Item #15756 The History of Egypt, Abridged From Rollin, With Additional Observations, for the Sunday School Union of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Sunday School Union of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

The History of Egypt, Abridged From Rollin, With Additional Observations, for the Sunday School Union of the Methodist Episcopal Church

New York: Published by B. Waugh and T. Mason. J. Collard, Printer, 1833.

Hardcover. 16mo. 215 pages, [1]. Frontispiece illustration and illustrated half title page. Marbled paper covered boards with red leather spine. Gilt title on the spine. Small chip to the leather spine. Scuffed marbled paper on the front cover. Some edge wear to the boards. Moderate toning and scattered foxing to the contents. Old pencil inscription of J H (sp.?) Parkers Book" at the top of the right front flyleaf. Below the first inscription is a later pen inscription - "Presented to David H Aurally by Mrs. Sara Graves Reeves from the library of the Graves family at Mount Pleasant, their home near Covington in Newton County, Georgia 1956." On the front paste down is a yellow store label "Bailey's Shoe Shop 142 Sycamore St. Dr. 3-0172- Decatur, Ga." Fair. Item #15756

From RootsWeb, Ancestry

Mt. Pleasant, Georgia, is named for the plantation that was built by Solomon Graves beginning in 1819. His land holdings totaled over 7,500 acres at one point. The original plantation home, which still exists, was built in 1835. The land remained in the Graves family until the final 426 acres were sold in 1958. In the early 1980?s 450+ acres of the former plantation, not including the 22+ acres immediately surrounding the original plantation home, were sold to a speculator/developer who had been assembling land at Interstate 20 interchanges east of Atlanta. By the late 1980?s the land had been rezoned to a mix of industrial, multi-family, highway commercial, and residential.

See also: Perkerson, Madora Field. White Columns in Georgia. New York: Rinehart & Co., Inc., 1952. Print.

Covington, Newton County, Georgia: Mt. Pleasant Plantation - Off Hwy. 278 - 1820 plantation now a working Christmas tree farm. [December 2011].

Price: $50.00