The Big Springs in Jacksonville, Alabama

Creation Date

1900

Decade

1900

Photographer

unknown

Subject

Jacksonville State University -- History, State Normal School (Jacksonville Ala.) -- History, Springs -- Alabama -- Calhoun County

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Description

The Big Springs was located to the west of the Jacksonville square. In the 1830s the first houses of settlers were building on a hill above the Big Springs. In the early 1900s the springs had approximately 3,000,000 gallons of water flowing daily. (circa 1900)

Date Digitized

12-16-2015

Source

JSU Photographic Services Negative Project

Is Part Of

Historical Image Collection

Rights

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Location

The original negative is housed at JSU McClellan Technical Information Center, Binder 1, Sleeve 2A.

Identifier

http://jsucollections.jsu.edu:9000/rpc/cat/Imaging/photocollection/psn/psn1900/PSN1900springs_0004.tif

Technical Metadata

Archival images are tiffs scanned from the original material at 300 dpi. The file name is PSN1900springs_0004.tif; file size is 1 MB. Original image is 4 by 5 on celluloid diacetate/triacetate film stock