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Etowah’s Camp Foster – Joe F. Head

2024-02-05T10:34:44-05:00

A Quest to Locate Etowah’s Camp Foster Governor Joe Brown’s Bridge Guard Army By Joe F. Head Long forgotten and faded from the county’s landscape is a former Civil War camp that once existed to guard the Etowah River Bridge. Governor Brown stationed select troops at key bridges to prevent [...]

Etowah’s Camp Foster – Joe F. Head2024-02-05T10:34:44-05:00

Bartow’s Mining Legacy – Staci Lusk, Intern

2024-01-26T17:30:36-05:00

  Bartow’s Mining Legacy Featuring a Special Tribute to 101 Years of New Riverside Ochre Mining History Staci Lusk, Intern Kennesaw State University Sponsored by: The Etowah Valley Historical Society August 2, 2016 Supervised by: Joe F. Head Bartow’s Mining Legacy Featuring a Special Tribute to 101 Years of New [...]

Bartow’s Mining Legacy – Staci Lusk, Intern2024-01-26T17:30:36-05:00

The Evolution of Schools in Bartow County, Georgia – Elyse Hoganson

2024-01-26T17:11:22-05:00

  The Evolution of Schools in Bartow County, Georgia The First 100 Years Sam Jones Female College and first Cartersville High School until 1953 Elyse Hoganson, Intern Etowah Valley Historical Society Georgia College and State University HIST 4960 Dr. Jessica Wallace July 2016 Supervised by Joe F. Head, [...]

The Evolution of Schools in Bartow County, Georgia – Elyse Hoganson2024-01-26T17:11:22-05:00

Pleasure Trips to Bartow County’s Saltpeter Cave Following the Civil War – Joel M. Sneed

2024-01-26T17:29:05-05:00

One can only surmise that in the years following the Civil War the saltpeter cave in Bartow County was a place of curiosity. Certainly, local residents who had enjoyed visits to the cave in earlier times and had been prevented from doing so by the extensive mining operation there began [...]

Pleasure Trips to Bartow County’s Saltpeter Cave Following the Civil War – Joel M. Sneed2024-01-26T17:29:05-05:00

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

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
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