Monthly Archives: July 2016

Bartow Bibliography Resource List – Dr. Keith Herbet, Auburn University

2024-01-26T17:30:59-05:00

This list is a customized inventory of Bartow works assembled by Dr. Keith Herbert, Auburn University. This collection primarily focuses on documents that hold information about the Civil War and Reconstruction as it relates to Bartow County and northwest Georgia. Primary Sources Manuscripts Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery. [...]

Bartow Bibliography Resource List – Dr. Keith Herbet, Auburn University2024-01-26T17:30:59-05:00

Colonel Benjamin Hawkins’s 1796 Visit to Cass (Bartow) County – Keith S. Hébert

2024-01-26T15:09:34-05:00

Note: Colonel Benjamin Hawkins was highly educated and left what is considered to be exemplary manuscripts of his Agent service. He was appointed by George Washington as a French interpreter during the Revolutionary War. Later he was appointed by Congress as Indian Agent to the southern frontier. He served as an early [...]

Colonel Benjamin Hawkins’s 1796 Visit to Cass (Bartow) County – Keith S. Hébert2024-01-26T15:09:34-05:00

The Leake Site: The Earthworks – Scot Keith

2024-01-26T15:55:45-05:00

  In the previous installment, the history of the discovery and documentation of the Leake site was presented. In this installment, we examine the earthworks at Leake.  While the earthen mounds at Leake are no longer visible on the ground surface, as are those at the spectacular Etowah Mounds located [...]

The Leake Site: The Earthworks – Scot Keith2024-01-26T15:55:45-05:00

Emerson – Sandy Lusk

2024-01-26T16:54:09-05:00

Emerson (Formerly Known As “Stegall’s Station”) By Sandy Lusk Early Mining in Emerson (photo courtesy of Georgia Archives) Emerson, originally known as Stegall’s Station, was first established as an agricultural community on land belonging to Emsly Stegall (1812-1888) of Pickens County, South Carolina. Emsly Stegall came to Cass [...]

Emerson – Sandy Lusk2024-01-26T16:54:09-05:00

Mattie Lee Price, the Forgotten Georgia Wonder – Donna Lee Dicksson

2024-01-26T16:57:02-05:00

Mattie Lee Price, the Forgotten Georgia Wonder By Donna Lee Dicksson   Bartow County’s own Magnetic Wonder “Mattie Lee Price” (1869-1899) of Bartow County, Georgia, was just fourteen when she became the second of the Georgia Wonder girls to come out of Georgia during the winter of 1883–1884.[i] The Georgia [...]

Mattie Lee Price, the Forgotten Georgia Wonder – Donna Lee Dicksson2024-01-26T16:57:02-05:00

Emerson’s Forgotten Train Wreck – Joe F. Head

2024-01-29T15:56:22-05:00

The Midnight Collision of the Chiefton and Senator By Joe F. Head   The Great Train Wreck of Sunday, September 1863, may be more of Emerson’s exclusive claim to Civil War railroad fame than the celebrated 1862, Great Locomotive Chase that once raced through the old iron ore mining community. [...]

Emerson’s Forgotten Train Wreck – Joe F. Head2024-01-29T15:56:22-05:00

Rebecca Felton, Columnist (March 31, 2002) – Dr. David Parker

2024-01-26T17:00:03-05:00

Last week, in a column on Marilu Munford, I mentioned her grandfather, Charles Henry Smith, who as “Bill Arp” wrote a weekly column for the Atlanta Constitution from 1878 to 1903. Bill Arp was extremely popular. In fact, it’s possible that for a few years in the 1880s he was [...]

Rebecca Felton, Columnist (March 31, 2002) – Dr. David Parker2024-01-26T17:00:03-05:00

Pretty Boy Floyd (July 13, 2003) – Dr. David Parker

2024-01-26T16:59:37-05:00

The big bank robbery in Cartersville this past week reminded me of something that happened in Bartow County back on February 3, 1904. No, not another bank robbery. On that day, a baby was born near Adairsville to Walter and Mamie Floyd. They named him Charles Arthur. Later he would [...]

Pretty Boy Floyd (July 13, 2003) – Dr. David Parker2024-01-26T16:59:37-05:00

Sam Jones in Palestine (May 18, 2003) – Dr. David Parker

2024-01-26T17:01:19-05:00

eBay, the online auction company, recently had an interesting item for sale: a postcard of the Cartersville depot from about a hundred years ago. Of the dozens of Cartersville postcards I’ve seen, this is my favorite. It shows the depot, of course, but also the city park that used to [...]

Sam Jones in Palestine (May 18, 2003) – Dr. David Parker2024-01-26T17:01:19-05:00

Sam Jones, Columnist (Feb. 23, 2003) – Dr. David Parker

2024-01-26T17:00:33-05:00

“Bill Arp” (Charles Henry Smith) was the most famous columnist to come out of Cartersville. His weekly pieces in the Atlanta Constitution, syndicated to hundreds of newspapers, made him one of the South’s most popular writers a century ago. Last year in this space, we wrote about Rebecca Felton, who, [...]

Sam Jones, Columnist (Feb. 23, 2003) – Dr. David Parker2024-01-26T17:00:33-05:00

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