Historic Train Wrecks of Bartow County – Joe F. Head
Historic Train Wrecks of Bartow County A look at rail tragedies in the Empire County between the 1840's and 2022 By: Joe F. Head Graphic Courtesy of Michael Vest Among the primary influences that established early Bartow County one must agree that rail history has played a major role in [...]
Native American Cave Burials – Joel Sneed
By Joel Sneed Bringing to Light Early Burials in Bartow County Salt Peter Cave Entrance - Photo by Linda Pye Evidence of Native American usage has been found in twelve Bartow County caves or in the area immediately adjacent to the cave entrance. Artifacts dating from the Archaic to the [...]
Pox and Pig Iron – Matthew Gramling
A Public Health Crisis in Antebellum Bartow County By Matthew Gramling For three months in the spring of 1849, pestilence and panic gripped antebellum Bartow County. Smallpox had broken out at the Etowah Iron Works and threatened to infect the entire county unless swift action was taken to contain [...]
Bartow’s Early Christmas Heritage – Matthew Gramling
Amidst the Holly and Pine: Memories and the Meaning of Christmas in Bartow County By Matthew Gramling When one thinks of the Christmas season a host of memories tend to flood the mind. Usually we are drawn to a nostalgic remembrance of those traditions which have a particularly special [...]
Perceptions of the Great Locomotive Chase – Nikolas Kekel
[1] The Memory of the Great Locomotive Chase from Atlanta to Chattanooga Nikolas Kekel Abstract The Great Locomotive Chase is a prominent feature of the interpretive landscape in North Georgia. This paper examines the cause of the Chase’s popularity as well as how public historians have used the Chase [...]
The Eddie Lee Wilkins Story – Krys King
By Krys King Based on King’s interview with Eddie Lee Wilkins on November 15, 2018. Eddie Lee Wilkins, a six feet ten inch soft spoken man, brings to mind, “gentle giant” both physically and in character. His focus in life is to inspire youth to be their best. He credits [...]
Entradas and Exchange – Matthew Gramling
Entradas and Exchange: De Soto, Etowah, and Patterns of Early European-Mississippian Trade By Matthew Gramling Hernando DeSoto The importance of exchange to the survival of Hernando De Soto’s entrada into the US southern interior cannot be understated.[1] As De Soto’s army marched through the diverse and dynamic world of [...]
Jessica Daves: Bartow’s Historic Fashionista – Debbie Head
Editor-in-Chief, Vogue Magazine, 1952-62. By Debbie Head, March 2021 (The inspiration for this article came while looking through the EVHS website for Women's History Month ideas. There was a one-sentence description containing the name Jessica Daves indicating her position as editor of Vogue. I wanted to know more. In April [...]
The Dark Era of Bartow’s Chain Gang Camps – Joe F. Head
By: Joe F. Head Georgia’s chain gang system operated for almost 100 years and in certain instances concealed ghastly conditions that eventually earned it an infamous reputation for hotspots of dark brutality. Unfortunately, Bartow County equally caught high profile attention regarding cruel convict treatment. Periodically, Bartow camps became the epicenter [...]
The Abandoned “Paupers Cemetery” Bartow County Poor Farm and Paupers Cemetery – Sanford Chandler, Ed.D.
By: Sanford Chandler, Ed.D. I received a note from Mr. Ronnie Yancey asking for my assistance. Mr. Yancey was attempting to visit the burial site of one of his relatives in an abandoned cemetery behind Toyo Tire Manufacturing, Company. He asked if I could assist him in gaining access to [...]
4 Way Lunch Memories – Philip D. Bridges
Fond high school memories of a local diner enjoyed by generations By Philip D. Bridges Located on East Main and Gilmer Street To wit, I can remember eating at the 4-Way after Cartersville High School football games probably around 1968 or so. If I was lucky enough to find an [...]
Bartow County’s Mound Legacy – Scot Keith and Joe F. Head
Bartow County’s Mound Legacy An Inventory of American Indian Mound Sites Located in Bartow County By Scot Keith and Joe F. Head Etowah Indian Mounds, formerly Tumlin Mounds It is the intention of this research to promote an educational understanding and awareness of American Indian mounds within Bartow County. Readers [...]
Tenant Farming in Bartow County, Josh Reed – Dr. Terry Powis
Understanding Early 20th Century Tenant Farming in Bartow County, Georgia Practicum in Anthropology, Kennesaw State University, Dr. Terry Powis The Adams family house is a historic building situated in Cartersville, Bartow County, Georgia located only a few miles northwest of the Etowah Indian Mounds. The house was constructed on the [...]
Break It till You Make It – Darrell Ross
Learning Flintknapping Darrell Ross Practicum in Anthropology, Dr. Terry Powis Introduction “If I would study any old, lost art, I must make myself an artisan of it.” F. H. Cushing (1895) I have very fond memories of looking for arrowheads and fossils as a boy. My friends and I would [...]
Historic Newspapers of Bartow County – Joe F. Head
By Joe F. Head Historic Newspapers of Bartow County An Annotated List of Historic Newspapers Published in Bartow County Recently Tom Hanks starred in a 2021 movie entitled, News of the World. It was the story of a well-educated, former Civil War soldier who earned his living as an itinerant [...]
Home Sweet Home – Jordan Farkas
An Architectural Analysis of Native American HousesDuring the Middle Mississippian Period in the Etowah River Valley By Jordan Farkas ANTH 3397Practicum in AnthropologyDepartment of Geography and AnthropologyKennesaw State UniversityKennesaw, Georgia May 12, 2021 Abstract The Mississippian period lasted from AD 1000-1550. It is divided into three different subperiods: Early (AD [...]
Stand Watie: The Hard Life of a Cherokee Survivor – Terry Sloope
Cherokee General Hails from old Cass County By Terry Sloope Many Americans have heard of the horrors of the “Trail of Tears” – the inhumane removal of the most of the Cherokee tribe from its homeland in the southeastern United States in the late 1830s.[1] Thousands of Cherokees died on [...]
Clay in the Homestead: A Ceramic Analysis of a Middle Mississippian House – Tristen Griffin
Student Anthropology Practicum Paper Department of Geography and Anthropology Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia Abstract Very few precontact Native American houses have been fully excavated from the Middle Mississippian period (AD 1200-1375), and even fewer excavations used modern archaeological techniques to uncover them. Recent excavations at a small village named the [...]
New Cave of Historical Importance in Bartow County, Georgia – Joel M. Sneed
Joel M. Sneed Joel Sneed at Tate Cave entrance Etowah Valley Historical Society member Sam Graham, with an interest in anything pertaining to the history of the county, became aware of another possible name for Jolley Cave, the name used by cave explorers and as listed in the [...]
The National Road, Interstate 75, and Bartow County – Dr. Lance Barry
The role of Visionary Leadership and the Art of Collaboration By Dr. Lance Barry Since the founding of the United States, our leaders have recognized the connection between the ease of travel and the incremental improvement of commerce, wealth, and security. The first federally funded road, the National Road, was [...]
Getting Plastered: A Technological Analysis of Daub Recovered from a Mississippian Period House in the Etowah River Valley – Joey Case
by Joey CasePracticum in AnthropologyFaculty Sponsor: Dr. Terry G. Powis Abstract During the Mississippian Period (1000-1500 CE) the Etowah River Valley experienced waves of population growth and decline with communities of people entering the valley from across the Southeast region of the U.S. leading to a unique intersection of ceramic, [...]
What’s Shakin’ in Bartow County? – Joel M. Sneed
By Joel M. Sneed It was a typically hot August night, Tuesday the 31st, in 1886. In the small town of Pine Log, Georgia, worshippers had been listening to the preaching of Rev. J.N. Sullivan at the Pine Log Methodist Church. The air was thick, everyone tired as the evening [...]
Dicksie Bradley Bandy: Leader in the Transformation of a Cottage Tufting Industry to Carpet Manufacturing – Susan Gilmore
By Susan Gilmore In 1993, Dicksie Orline Bradley Bandy was honored, posthumously, by the Georgia Women of Achievement (GWA). The GWA goal is to “honor the many inspirational and courageous female trailblazers” in Geogia. Dicksie is, to this day, the only woman listed with the GWA as a businesswoman. Her [...]
Warren Akin
https://youtu.be/ta-4AXVL6no?feature=shared Warren Akin - His Life and Family History January 27, 2007 Interviewed by David Archer
