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Jr. (Charles Colcock) Charles C. Jones
1831–1893
Best known as one of nineteenth-century Georgia’s leading historians, he wrote vivid studies of the state’s colonial past while also serving as a lawyer, politician, and amateur archaeologist. His work helped preserve local stories, records, and traditions that might otherwise have been lost.
2 Audiobooks
The dead towns of Georgia
by Jr. (Charles Colcock) Charles C. Jones
Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular
by Jr. (Charles Colcock) Charles C. Jones
About the author
Born in Savannah, Georgia, on October 28, 1831, he was the son of Presbyterian minister Charles Colcock Jones. He studied at Princeton and later at Harvard Law School, then returned to Savannah to practice law. Before the Civil War, he also entered public life and served as mayor of Savannah from 1860 to 1861.
After military service for the Confederacy during the Civil War, he became especially important as a writer and historian. He published widely on Georgia history, including studies of colonial figures, local communities, and the experiences of enslaved and Indigenous people as they appeared in the historical record. He was also known as an amateur archaeologist and a serious collector of manuscripts and autographs.
Remembered as one of the foremost Georgia historians of the nineteenth century, he combined a storyteller’s eye with a collector’s instinct for detail. He died on July 19, 1893, leaving behind a body of work that still shapes how readers encounter the early history of Georgia and the South.