By Joe F. Head As the city of Cartersville celebrates its 175th Anniversary on February 1, 2025, it is also fitting to recognize Cartersville’s first mayor, Abda Johnson. While the city was chartered in 1850, it was reincorporated in 1872 with a duly elected council and mayor. Abda Johnson was [...]
Doug’s Place Emerson, Georgia History and Ownership By Joe F. Head Emerson’s Dinner Bell History and Ownership of Doug’s Place Doug and Melissa Ferguson Mark and Pam Sullins According to the Bartow County Deeds Office, the origin of “Doug’s [...]
(AKA: Empire Mill, Williford Mill, Milner Mill, Jones Mill and Amelia Mill) By Joe F. Head Formerly located southwest of Emerson, Georgia on Pumpkinvine Creek, is a forgotten grist mill that has eluded local historians for decades regarding its precise location and further confused by the use of multiple names. [...]
Rev. Sam P. Jones Wonder of the Congregations By Rev. Scott W. Shepard, PhD Reverend Sam P. Jones Seventy-one years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the birth of a nation, three mothers welcomed three baby boys into the world who would all make front [...]
1835 Treaty of New Echota – Signed in Old Cass County, Georgia A forgotten History of the Cherokee Capitol and Removal in Cass County By Joe F. Head Local Native American history often takes a back seat to the average awareness of Bartow citizens. Perhaps the most well-known event regarding [...]
By Joe F. Head According to Mr. Robert White, former station master of the Cartersville Depot, and the late colonel Thomas Spencer, journalist and historian, there are actually two unknown graves in the Allatoona Pass area. Both were originally located by the former track bed, but on opposite sides and [...]
Rap Dixon The Fight to get Bartow’s Negro Leagues Standout into Cooperstown By Nicholas Sullivan Article was reprinted by permission of the Daily Tribune News. Bartow County has produced plenty of outstanding athletes over the years, but few locals probably are aware that the greatest baseball player to ever call [...]
Trinity Atkins Today, Friendship-Puckett Cemetery can be found south of Cartersville along Highway 293 and Old River Road near the Etowah River. Joe Head, the Etowah Valley Historical Society Vice President, and EVHS served as the beneficiary for my Eagle Scout Project at this site. Friendship Cemetery - Trinity [...]
The Tabernacle, 1886 – 1933 The Alter Place of Sam Porter Jones’ Old Time Revivals By: Joe F. Head Photo courtesy of the Bartow History Museum Today only a single state historic sign remains as evidence of a legendary tabernacle site that marked Cartersville as once being the [...]
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