"The New South. Its Past, Present and Future, as Shown by the Cartersville Improvement Gas and Water Co." Boston: Robinson & Stephenson, 1888. 16 pp. In original red wrappers. ********************** Issued by the Boston office of said company to attract investment in their Southern expansion into Cartersville, GA during the decades following the Civil War. "During the war, the Confederate Government knew the resources of the vicinity and used them by casting their heavy guns... From this source of supply they were abundantly equipped and enabled to hold out so long. With the close of the war the people in Cartersville and vicinity found themselves destitute of nearly all of the comforts and necessities of life...." An extremely scarce booklet; no other copies traced.

Marginal tearing, chipping, and worming; no loss of text. Fair, as-is.