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Southern Spaces
A journal about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections

Grapefruit Workers in Florida, January 1937

This series of photographs by Arthur Rothstein depicts men and women in canning and packing plants in Winter Haven and Fort Pierce, Florida. While photographs of agricultural work appear throughout the Library...

Dirty Little Story

...A Plan B is a wonderful thing at such a moment. We all pile back into the car. The weather is like October. The lake water is warm. The sky...

#209, Long Meter

...trees of myrrh and spice we stand,    Planted by God the Father’s hand;    And all his springs in Zion flow,    To make the young plantation grow.  ...

The Suburban Wild: Coyotes in Druid Hills

...Today, the area has become a prominent suburban enclave near Atlanta's urban center. Celebrated landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted drew the original plans for Druid Hills in the late nineteenth...

Whiskey and Geography

...of the colonies. On plantations throughout the colonies, a still house was a common outbuilding in which barrels of whiskey were distilled and aged. By independence, small distilleries were everywhere....

The Cobb County Braves

...infrastructure spending. Reed argued these would have left the city "absolutely cash-strapped" and exacerbated the current backlog of planned infrastructure projects. He also announced plans to redevelop the Turner Field...

Sapelo Island Flyover

...mid-nineteenth century. Plantation agriculture depended on slave labor of people with varied languages and origins in west Africa, resulting in an enforced cultural mélange. Descendants of those enslaved people, and...