Amidst the Holly and Pine: Memories and the Meaning of Christmas in Bartow County By Matthew Gramling When one thinks of the Christmas season a host of memories tend to flood the mind. Usually we are drawn to a nostalgic remembrance of those traditions which have a particularly special [...]
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 [...]
By Joel Sneed Bringing to Light Early Burials in Bartow County Salt Peter Cave Entrance - Photo by Linda Pye Evidence of Native American usage has been found in twelve Bartow County caves or in the area immediately adjacent to the cave entrance. Artifacts dating from the Archaic to the [...]
Historic Train Wrecks of Bartow County A look at rail tragedies in the Empire County between the 1840's and 2022 By: Joe F. Head Graphic Courtesy of Michael Vest Among the primary influences that established early Bartow County one must agree that rail history has played a major role in [...]
The Material Wealth of Slaves in the South An Excavation of a Former Slave Cabin Uncovers a Piece of Bartow County’s History India Daniel Kennesaw State University In today’s world, we are curiously reaching back into the past more than ever, in search of not only our country’s history, but [...]
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 [...]
By Matthew Gramling The namesake of a community can provide profound insights into the communal identity of its early residents and their relationship to the landscape in which they lived. Place names often describe a topographical feature, signify a kinship relationship to a particular locale, or commemorate a person, place, [...]
April 2020 - by Debbie and Joe Head The Show Will Go On In 2020, Bartow County, along with the rest of the nation, added a chapter to our local heritage as the community navigated its way through the COVID-19 pandemic. This article is intended to provide a snapshot [...]
By Joe Head April 12, 2020 Homemade masks during the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 Never in a hundred years! How often have you heard or uttered that phrase meaning you will not see such an event in your lifetime? Well, it is now the 100 years! Twenty years into [...]
Sam Graham This brief paper covers the changes in Cartersville’s fire service from 1867, when there was no fire department, until 1918, when the fire service included a municipal water system, full-time professional firefighters and a motorized engine; the basics of the system which is still in use today. Early [...]
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Cartersville, GA 30120
Phone: 770-606-8862
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