Guide to the Alabama Legislature petition MSS.0039
Alabama Legislature petition
- Publication:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
May 2009
500 Hackberry Lane
Box 870266
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
archives@ua.edu
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Alabama Legislature petition
- Unit ID:
MSS.0039
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.1 Linear feet (2 items)
- Dates:
1849
- Abstract:
An 1849 petition by several Alabama legislators to Governor Reuben Chapman urging him to veto the act chartering the Central Plank Road, and a typed transcript listing the names of signers and counties that they represented.
- creator
Alabama. Legislature .
Scope and Contents note
The collections contains an 1849 petition by several Alabama legislators to Governor Reuben Chapman urging him to veto the act chartering the Central Plank Road, and a typed transcript listing the names of signers and counties that they represented.
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation note
Alabama Legislature petition, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama.
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Provenance
unknown
- Processing Information:
Processed by
S. Braden, 2008; updated by Martha Bace, 2012
Biographical/Historical note
A plank road or puncheon is a dirt path or road covered with a series of planks, similar to the wooden sidewalks one would see in a Western movie. Plank roads were very popular in Ontario, the U.S. Northeast and U.S. Midwest in the first half of the 19th century.
Source(s)
Chapman, Reuben, Gov. (local)
Alabama |x History |y 1819-1950 (lcsh)
Alabama |x Politics and government (lcsh)
Correspondence (aat)
Elmore County (Ala.) (Local)
Government, Law and Politics (localbroad)
Politicians |z Alabama (lcsh)
Petition Box 1