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THE JACKSON HERALD
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 2010
Old photographs of Jefferson, including these of
Washington Street and the Masonic Lodge, are among
the collection at the Crawford W. Long Museum.
Museum continued from page 1C
Pendergrass family, the Ware
family, the Lyle family, for
example.
For more information about
the grand opening events and the
museum operation or to schedule
tours, contact Starnes, 706-367-
5307 or visit www.crawfordlong.
org.
JEFFERSON HISTORY
The Sanborn fire maps dis
played in the first room visi
tors will enter at the museum
are “an excellent resource,’’
according to museum director
Lesa Campbell who, along with
museum manager Vicki Starnes,
have researched and redesigned
the exhibits. “We picked photos
to go with the maps, to high
light Jefferson. There’s Martin
Institute and the mill section by
the depot...the warehouses. I like
this photo of the H.I. Mobley
Warehouse around 1900. Things
like that showed up as we sorted
through.’’
‘This (room) will kind of serve
as a Jefferson visitors' center,’’
Campbell added. “It gives the
flavor of the town. Jefferson was
remarkably self-contained.’’
CRAWFORD LONG
GALLERY
A short hallway away is the
Crawford Long Gallery, housed
in the two-story brick medical
building, and featuring both
medical and personal items of
Dr. Crawford W. Long and his
family (see separate story).
The room, divided by a mov
able panel listing medical mile
stones, incorporates graphic pan
els, standing exhibits, furniture,
portraits and a diorama.
“Everyone notices the diorama
now,” said Starnes of the new
spatial structure of the room.
“The diorama really helps stu
dents understand.”
A three-dimensional case
showing that first surgery with
sulfuric ether as anesthesia, the
diorama also offers a glimpse of
what Jefferson would have been
like at the time.
“You can see the Harrison
Hotel here with the stagecoach in
front,” Campbell said. “The two-
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story brick building would have
been the courthouse. Here’s the
old well. We can see these things
on the old maps.”
A tiny bottle of cotton balls in
Dr. Long's is the only inaccuracy
in the diorama, as cotton balls
were not yet in use.
“Jefferson was still a rough and
tumble frontier town,” Campbell
said.
Throughout the gallery, infor
mation panels, including pho
tos and graphics, range in top
ics from “Who is Crawford W.
Long?” to his discovery, the ether
controversy, war years, marriage
and family and the Long family
tree.
“It’s been an interesting blend
doing this, a combination of
old buildings and exhibits with
a modem edge with the black
and glass panels,” Campbell said.
“We wanted to leave the ambi
ence of the old buildings and put
a modem edge on it.. ..We try to
layer everything. We do want to
bring some computer monitors
in for people who really want
more, to layer it even more with
computer touch screens.”
PENDERGRASS STORE
The Pendergrass Store, which
operated as a typical general store
in the mid-1800s - minus the
medical goods, since a doctor’s
office was right next door — is
now organized by category, such
as tools and hardware, canned
food, staples, housewares and
textiles.
“I bet tobacco was the single
most common item,” Campbell
said. “I've seen the store led
gers.”
“It’s hard to have enough arti
facts for one point in time, so
we’re doing this by category,
and how that category went over
time,” she explained. “It’s an
evolution of the store.... Some
of these things we acquired and
some people over time have
brought in.”
Campbell and Starnes see a lot
of teaching opportunities in the
general store. For example, the
display of canned goods alone —
vibrantly colored with elaborate
artwork on the wrappings — pro
vides an opening to discuss the
evolution of industry and adver
tising. The store would have been
bright with built-in advertising,
from the canned goods to the
colored artwork on boxes.
‘This is really the heyday of
advertising,” Campbell said.
“You can follow the war years,
with ‘Battleship,’ ‘Victry (sic)’ to
the plain brown,”
Campbell said the tours can be
tailored to school groups at three
levels, depending on the criteria
of the age group.
UDC chapter to meet Jan. 91 Benefit ahead for Robinson
THE J.E.B. Stuart Chapter of the United Daughters of the
Confederacy will meet at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 9, at the
Commerce Public Library. All members are encouraged to
attend.
The UDC is a nonprofit organization whose objectives are;
“Patriotic, Benevolent, Civic, Memorial and Historical.” Anyone
interested in joining may contact the chapter registrar at jebstu-
art861 @ hotmail.com.
LANDSCAPING & HORSE ARENAS
Dr. Crawford W. Long’s daughter, Eugenia Long Harper, kept meticulous notes in
her journal, providing details on highlights of her father’s life and career. The jour
nal is among the family history on display at the Crawford W. Long Museum.
‘They have to meet standards,
and we need to do that for them,”
she said.
BUILDING OUT
“There’s a lot of building out
to do, in the store and in the anes
thesia exhibit,” Campbell said.
“We’ve pinched some pennies
pretty good and done a lot with
the grant money.”
Upstairs is a collection of anes
thesia machines, each complete
with an “ether jar.”
“They even used ether jars up
to the 1970s, and it is still very
commonly used in third world
countries,” Campbell said. “Ether
has a wide therapeutic range, and
chloroform has a much more
narrow window...Anesthesia is
called ‘reversible unconscious
ness.”'
What started with a “frolic”
developed into a medical break
through, with ramifications
worldwide.
“It’s been an interesting jour
ney, this,” Campbell said of the
research and the renovations for
the Crawford W. Long Museum.
Admission to the museum
is $5 for adults, $4 for seniors
(65 and up) and $3 for students.
Children 5 and under may enter
free. The museum is open to the
public 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays
through Friday and 10 a.m. to 4
p.m. Saturdays.
A BENEFIT supper and singing for Vickie Robinson will be
held on Saturday, Jan. 16, at the Lighthouse Congregational
Holiness Church in Commerce. The supper will be from 4 to
5:30 p.m. and the singing will start at 6 p.m. A variety of local
artists are set to perform.
For more information, call 770-654-2226.
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Information panels provide details
about Dr. Crawford W. Long’s life
and medical discovery as part of an
upgraded exhibit at the Crawford W.
Long Museum in Jefferson.
Dr. Long cont’d from page 1C
“There’s not a lot of medical items because doctors didn’t have that
much then,” explained museum director Lesa Campbell last week,
giving a preview of the exhibit. “One thing I’m really happy to have
is his medical case. The cases tended to fall apart. His medical bag is
at the Smithsonian.”
Campbell added about setting up the standing exhibit cases: “It’s
an odd feeling to hold in your hand something he touched and held.
We’ve compared the handwriting, and it matches.”
‘WHO IS CRAWFORD W. LONG?’
Bom in Danielsville, Dr. Long had moved to Jefferson and was
practicing there at
the age of 26 when
he discovered the
possibilities for
“painless sur
gery” with the use
of sulfuric ether.
“Frolics” were
held, with nitrous
oxide and sulfu
ric ether inhaled
for intoxicating
effects, and party-
goers seemed, lit
erally, to feel no
pain, although they
might sport bruises
the next day from
their frolicking.
On March 30, 1842, Dr. Long removed a benign tumor from the
neck of James Venable, who had inhaled sulfuric ether.
Surgical anesthesia was bom.
Dr. Long is of course at the heart of the museum housed in what
was once his medical office, as well as in the old Pendergrass Store. In
fact, “Who is Crawford W. Long?” is the first panel in a series posted
along the walls in the Crawford Long gallery in the medical building.
Information and images are displayed about his discovery, as well as
about his family and his life in Atlanta and Athens, up to his death at
age 62.
“He did sit for a portrait the year before he died,” Campbell said,
pointing to a display panel on Dr. Long’s marriage and family. “He
died at 62. He hadn't yet had his 63rd birthday.”
As seems fitting, Dr. Long died while visiting a patient, physician
to the end.
There are portraits, and family furniture, journals and other artifacts
are a part of the exhibit. For example, his daughter, Eugenia Long
Harper, kept a journal including some of the highlights of her father’s
fife— his Danielsville birthplace, the first “painless surgery,” his vari
ous homes.
“It’s nice to have some of their things as a couple,” Campbell said of
the items belonging to both Dr. Long and his wife.
But the grant-funded renovation has also afforded Campbell and
museum manager Vicki Starnes the opportunity to branch out, devel
oping a visitors’ center, complete with Jefferson history, 1916 fire
maps and photos, as well as further utilizing the old Pendergrass store
as a teaching tool (see separate story). An upstairs exhibit still in the
works will feature a collection of anesthesia machines from the very
simple to the more complex.
The exhibits offer something for the “sprinter” to the student groups
to those who want to delve deeper, Campbell said.
Recycled Christmas cards
to benefit children’s charity
KEEP JACKSON County
Beautiful is collecting Christmas
cards until Feb. 1 to send to St.
Jude’s Ranch for Children.
The ranch takes Christmas
cards from a previous year and
turns them into “new” cards for
the next holiday season.
Children at the ranch partici
pate in making new cards by
removing the front and attaching
a new back. The result is a new
card made by the children and
volunteers.
The benefits are two-fold:
Customers receive “green” holi
day cards for use and the chil
dren receive payment for their
work and learn the benefits and
importance of “going green.”
To donate cards, drop them
off at the Jackson County
Administrative Office in down
town Jefferson at the front desk.
There is a recycling bin across
from the entrance to the county
tag office. Cards may also be
dropped off at the Keep Jackson
County Beautiful Office, where
there is a recycling bin outside
the door.
Cards may also be mailed to
Keep Jackson County Beautiful,
67 Athens Street, Jefferson, GA
30549.
For more information, con
tact Susan Trepagnier, execu
tive director, at 706-708-7198
or email strepagnier@jackson-
countygov.com.
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TOWN HALL MEETING
District 3 Commissioner Bruce Yates will be
holding a Town Hall Meeting at the Hoschton Depot
on Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 7:00 p.m.
Mr. Yates is seeking discussion on the 2010
county budget, property assessments,
informational updates on the new Hoschton park,
the Zion Church Road project, the Jackson County
Comprehensive Plan, Agri-Cycle, the 2010 Census
and other issues of concern to citizens.
The public is invited to attend.
JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL FFA
CHICKEN MULL
Saturday, January 23
Jefferson High School Cafeteria
Take-Out: 12:00 - 7:00 pm
Dine-ln: 5:00 - 7:00 pm (all you can eat)
Price: $6.00 (1 ticket for one quart)
Tickets available at
Jefferson High School
and Jefferson Tire Co.
All proceeds benefit Jefferson High School FFA Chapter