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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]