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[Melvina Chessher]

Description: Copy negative of a portrait of an older Melvina Chessher, operator of the first hotel in Jacksonville, seated in a wooden chair. The photograph was taken in the early 1930s.
Date: December 5, 1987
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
Partner: Cherokee County Historical Commission

[Chessher Hotel]

Description: Copy negative of Mrs. Melvina Chessher standing in front of the Chessher Hotel, the first in Jacksonville. She used the hotel to support herself after her husband was killed in the Civil War.
Date: December 5, 1987
Creator: Cherokee County Historical Society
Partner: Cherokee County Historical Commission
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