A Matter of Opinion: Friendship Monument
Lara Jeanneret2024-01-24T14:50:15-05:00https://youtu.be/-HlDTM6lOgc?feature=shared A Matter of Opinion: Friendship Monument Presented by Etowah Valley Historical Society As seen on Crossroads
Dicksie Bradley Bandy: Leader in the Transformation of a Cottage Tufting Industry to Carpet Manufacturing – Susan Gilmore
Debbie Head2024-01-29T15:44:06-05:00By 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 [...]
What’s Shakin’ in Bartow County? – Joel M. Sneed
Debbie Head2024-01-29T16:48:31-05:00By Joel M. Sneed It was a typically hot August night, Tuesday the 31st, in 1886. In the small town of Pine Log, Georgia, worshippers had been listening to the preaching of Rev. J.N. Sullivan at the Pine Log Methodist Church. The air was thick, everyone tired as the evening [...]
Getting Plastered: A Technological Analysis of Daub Recovered from a Mississippian Period House in the Etowah River Valley – Joey Case
Lara Jeanneret2024-01-29T15:37:08-05:00by Joey CasePracticum in AnthropologyFaculty Sponsor: Dr. Terry G. Powis Abstract During the Mississippian Period (1000-1500 CE) the Etowah River Valley experienced waves of population growth and decline with communities of people entering the valley from across the Southeast region of the U.S. leading to a unique intersection of ceramic, [...]
The National Road, Interstate 75, and Bartow County – Dr. Lance Barry
JHead2024-01-29T16:23:15-05:00The role of Visionary Leadership and the Art of Collaboration By Dr. Lance Barry Since the founding of the United States, our leaders have recognized the connection between the ease of travel and the incremental improvement of commerce, wealth, and security. The first federally funded road, the National Road, was [...]
New Cave of Historical Importance in Bartow County, Georgia – Joel M. Sneed
Scott Cooper2024-01-26T17:33:24-05:00Joel M. Sneed Joel Sneed at Tate Cave entrance Etowah Valley Historical Society member Sam Graham, with an interest in anything pertaining to the history of the county, became aware of another possible name for Jolley Cave, the name used by cave explorers and as listed in the [...]
Clay in the Homestead: A Ceramic Analysis of a Middle Mississippian House – Tristen Griffin
Scott Cooper2024-01-28T13:11:33-05:00Student Anthropology Practicum Paper Department of Geography and Anthropology Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia Abstract Very few precontact Native American houses have been fully excavated from the Middle Mississippian period (AD 1200-1375), and even fewer excavations used modern archaeological techniques to uncover them. Recent excavations at a small village named the [...]
Stand Watie: The Hard Life of a Cherokee Survivor – Terry Sloope
JHead2024-01-29T15:36:34-05:00Cherokee General Hails from old Cass County By Terry Sloope Many Americans have heard of the horrors of the “Trail of Tears” – the inhumane removal of the most of the Cherokee tribe from its homeland in the southeastern United States in the late 1830s.[1] Thousands of Cherokees died on [...]
Home Sweet Home – Jordan Farkas
Scott Cooper2024-01-29T15:35:31-05:00An Architectural Analysis of Native American HousesDuring the Middle Mississippian Period in the Etowah River Valley By Jordan Farkas ANTH 3397Practicum in AnthropologyDepartment of Geography and AnthropologyKennesaw State UniversityKennesaw, Georgia May 12, 2021 Abstract The Mississippian period lasted from AD 1000-1550. It is divided into three different subperiods: Early (AD [...]
Historic Newspapers of Bartow County – Joe F. Head
JHead2026-06-02T08:35:21-04:00By Joe F. Head Historic Newspapers of Bartow County An Annotated List of Historic Newspapers Published in Bartow County Recently Tom Hanks starred in a 2021 movie entitled, News of the World. It was the story of a well-educated, former Civil War soldier who earned his living as an itinerant [...]
