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Farmers bring wagons loaded with bales of cotton to Newnan for sale or shipment, ca. 1906. The Coweta County Courthouse and a Confederate monument can be seen to the right. In the background is the Southern School of Telegraphy.

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #cow035.

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