(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. [...]

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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 [...]

Ingredients for Cartersville’s Electric Age By: Joe F. Head As early as May 3, 1900 Cartersville entrepreneurs had launched their first Canning Factory to benefit its citizens. Additionally, an icehouse, freezer locker, two canning factories and local cooking schools were all made possible by electricity. As years followed the community [...]

Etowah Station, W&A RR Etowah River Bridge The History and Development of the Railroads of Bartow County By Giovanni Martino Bartow County, formerly Cass County, owes much of its success to the early construction of a state-owned railroad built between Atlanta and Chattanooga known as the Western and [...]

Cartersville’s Lost Furnace By Joe F. Head Northwest Georgia and particularly Bartow County became home to a thriving iron furnace industry. Between 1830 and 1900 some dozen stone cupola furnaces were built from Sugar Hill south along Stamp Creek to Allatoona and Emerson Georgia. These furnaces were erected by a [...]

A Possible Discovery to Cartersville’s Post War Reconstruction By Joe F. Head Following the Civil War, Cartersville, for a short time, pulled itself back on track with a railroad manufacturing economy. Little known to today’s citizens of Cartersville and Bartow County is a long forgotten industry that thrived in the [...]

The Last Family Foundry A Look at Bartow’s Early Foundry Era  By Joe F. Head   Although no longer standing, perhaps the last remnant of the “Bartow Foundry Era” was the Cartersville Casting and Machine Company previously located at 148 and 155 Cassville Road. This property is described in Deed [...]