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 [...]
Uriah Stephens Kingston’s Voice of Resistance The Great Locomotive Chase Sesquicentennial Celebration by: Joe F. Head Copyright 2012 It might be argued that the Great Locomotive Chase” of April 12, 1862 was the first intrusion of the American Civil War onto Georgia soil, the first certainly into Bartow [...]
Asa G. Candler Cartersville’s Surprising Connections to the Coca Cola Empire By: Joe F. Head 1851 - 1929 Few people from Bartow County know that Asa Griggs Candler, founder of the Coca Cola Empire, once lived in Cartersville where he learned his skill to become a pharmacist. Lucy [...]
KINGSTON HISTORY: The ROME RAILROAD "Y" by Larry Posey © 2016 After passing the attractive “Welcome to Historic Kingston” banner and entering this bucolic and rural village, visitors often ask “Where is the history.” Indeed one must mix a robust imagination with historical facts and folklore to appreciate the unfolding [...]
The Great Locomotive Chase Sesquicentennial Celebration It might be argued that the Great Locomotive Chase” of April 12, 1862 was the first intrusion of the American Civil War onto Georgia soil, the first certainly into Bartow County. It was the earliest event of a prolonged struggle between the north and [...]
The Heart of the Chase The Great Locomotive Chase in Bartow County By: Joe F. Head The General On April 12, 1862 Bartow County was first introduced to the American Civil War when the famed locomotive, The General raced through the county commandeered by Union Spies on a [...]
The Legend of Chain Gang Hill A childhood memory re-ignites interest in Bartow’s forgotten Chain Gang Camp By: Joe F. Head Often family stories and legends fascinate children about the “old days.” They are spellbound with stories about ghosts, myths and fairy tales. One such family story kindled keen interest [...]
The Yonah Blows Again By Joe F. Head Those familiar with the April 12, 1862, Great Locomotive Chase know that the first of the three locomotives used to chase the General was the Yonah, a native American name assigned to the ninth engine put into service on the W&A RR. [...]
https://youtu.be/j4SN326Ze1o?feature=shared by Donny Maddox I went to the Southern Museum of Locomotive History for the celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the Great Locomotive Chase in 1862. The Great Locomotive Chase was such a compelling story it spawned a couple of movies and a few books. The event turned out [...]
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