The Barrow name reflected the map's preception of "Barrow's Plantation" as unknown. With the expansion of the internet's online services for research, it may be used to tell us the us the who, what, when, and wheres in a search. As for this case we use or detective senses to in search for the who, the what and the where of Barrow's plantation.
THe name Barrow is a slave name carried by families in Oglethorpe County, Georgia. The Barrow family, not to large in size carried this plantation throught what we believe to be hard work. Through a family search, the Barrow name became familar to the political and the education fields. Researching the Barrow name through the ancestory site, it gave names and ages of those present in oglethorpe County in the same years of the two maps, 1860 and 1881. The Library of Congress site, by searching the name Barrow, gives us the name David C. Barrow. Through a document written by David C. Barrow he gives us an insight of happenings on the plantation. Mentioning the fact; the labors of the farm is performed by the man, who usually does the plowing, and his wife and children who did the hoeing under his direction.2 According to wikipedia members of the Barrow family were political by M. Pope Barrow or Middleton P. Barrow. M.P. Barrow was member of the US senate from 1882- 1883. With the same search David C. Barrow's article is known to have the first image of the plantation.
Trying to find Barrow's Plantation we must use what is known and understood on the given map. By looking at the given map, the plantation very spreaded out with land and enough to be able to do land work with a source of water from the Little Lake and Branch creek going through Barrow's plantation. The Map informs us that the location of the two map is Oglethorpe County, Georgia. Olgethorpe County, Georgia was overall a very large county in population, According to the 1860 Census. Barrow's plantation only consisted of 3 whites' and one hundred and sixty-two colored people.1 The maps gives an outset of the Civil War being a major influence as to the change over years. It illustrates the effect of emancipation on plantation life in the south. Going though the years they began to want "elbow room" so one by one the families moved their housed to the farms.3 This became convient to those who decided to move, even still, others even walked miles to to reach their work.
Although through the maps we can see that the civil war land was well spaced out and the people became more independent, the exact location of Barrow's Plantation no longer exsist as a plantation. The street is still there, the creek and forks are both still there. The transformation from that plantation has turned into a present day farm. With the help of the internet in this case, images of Barrow's Plantation can detect that the Location of Barrow's Plantation is still there. But to call is Barrow's Plantation, that's something that it's not.
When first looking at the map and its oreintations: a compass, alegend, the land, bodies of water are things you would typically see on a regular map. The mystery in the map of Barrows plantation is one of the obvious. I found it out of the ordinary that a compass would be missing on an image of a map.
How Barrow's Plantation is presently unknown to many, it doesnt have to have to. Because the internet is expanding everyday; to use the internet as a primary source can be just as helpful as using a text. You may have to bring your detctive magnifying glasses but its there and through research you can find it.
Works Cited
1. Barrow, David C. "A Georgia Plantation." Scribner's Monthly, an Illustrated Magazine For The People. Volume 21, Issue 5, March 1881. Periodical. American Memory, Library of Congress. Date of electronic publication unavailable. 10/8/07 http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/
2. The New Georgia Encyclopedia. David C. Barrow Jr. Short Biography of David C. Barrow. University of Georgia. Copyright 2007. 10/6/07 www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-857
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