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Perceptions of the Great Locomotive Chase – Nikolas Kekel

2024-01-29T16:06:21-05:00

[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 [...]

Perceptions of the Great Locomotive Chase – Nikolas Kekel2024-01-29T16:06:21-05:00

Bartow’s Early Christmas Heritage – Matthew Gramling

2024-01-29T16:32:02-05:00

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 [...]

Bartow’s Early Christmas Heritage – Matthew Gramling2024-01-29T16:32:02-05:00

Pox and Pig Iron – Matthew Gramling

2024-01-29T15:46:04-05:00

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 [...]

Pox and Pig Iron – Matthew Gramling2024-01-29T15:46:04-05:00

Native American Cave Burials – Joel Sneed

2024-01-29T15:31:46-05:00

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 [...]

Native American Cave Burials – Joel Sneed2024-01-29T15:31:46-05:00

The Vinnie Cabin Excavation – India Daniel

2024-01-29T16:46:59-05:00

The Material Wealth of Slaves in the South An Excavation of a Former Slave Cabin Uncovers a Piece of Bartow County’s History India Daniel  Kennesaw State University In today’s world, we are curiously reaching back into the past more than ever, in search of not only our country’s history, but [...]

The Vinnie Cabin Excavation – India Daniel2024-01-29T16:46:59-05:00

Walnut Grove and the Young Family – Jennifer Billingsley

2024-01-29T15:40:30-05:00

An Archival Study of Walnut Grove and the Young Family A directed study under the supervision of Dr. Terry Powis at Kennesaw State University By: Jennifer Billingsley Introduction The Walnut Grove Plantation is situated near the confluence of the Etowah River and Pettit Creek in Cartersville, an area rich with [...]

Walnut Grove and the Young Family – Jennifer Billingsley2024-01-29T15:40:30-05:00

Patriotism and Place: Community, Commemoration, and Confederate Identity in Civil War Bartow County – Matthew Gramling

2024-01-29T16:06:55-05:00

By Matthew Gramling The namesake  of a community can provide profound insights into the communal identity of its early residents and their relationship to the landscape in which they lived. Place names often describe a topographical feature, signify a kinship relationship to a particular locale, or commemorate a person, place, [...]

Patriotism and Place: Community, Commemoration, and Confederate Identity in Civil War Bartow County – Matthew Gramling2024-01-29T16:06:55-05:00

Cartersville’s COVID Chronicles – Debbie and Joe F. Head

2024-01-29T16:32:41-05:00

April 2020 - by  Debbie and Joe Head The Show Will Go On In 2020, Bartow County, along with the rest of the nation, added a chapter to our local heritage as the community navigated its way through the COVID-19 pandemic. This article is intended to provide a snapshot [...]

Cartersville’s COVID Chronicles – Debbie and Joe F. Head2024-01-29T16:32:41-05:00

COVID-19 Not Bartow’s First Social Distancing Epidemic – Joe F. Head

2024-01-29T16:33:39-05:00

By Joe Head April 12, 2020 Homemade masks during the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 Never in a hundred years! How often have you heard or uttered that phrase meaning you will not see such an event in your lifetime? Well, it is now the 100 years!   Twenty years into [...]

COVID-19 Not Bartow’s First Social Distancing Epidemic – Joe F. Head2024-01-29T16:33:39-05:00

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
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