A man out of slavery overcoming and achieving the extraordinary. Sponsored By: Etowah Valley Historical Society Date: 8/28/2019 Written By: Alexis MaziqueChistopher Mazique Field Supervisors: Joe F. HeadSam Graham Acknowledgments First and foremost, we are indebted to Mr. Sam Graham who rediscovered Henry Clay Smith. He not only found [...]
The following article was published in The Tribune-News, June 27, 1929, under the title “Local Golf Course Has Important and Noticeable Niche in Sportdom”. As wheels of progress turned their cycles towards greater industry and business for Cartersville and Bartow County, they made an extra revelation in order that sports [...]
Joel M. Sneed Entrance to Kingston Saltpeter Cave (Linda Pye photo) As a part of our study of Kingston Saltpeter Cave in the 1980s, inscriptions were recorded from the walls of the cave, and these – nearly 500 names, some with dates and other information – were [...]
by Guy Parmenter Many of our forefathers who endured the hardships of a time we can now only read about can still be found today resting peacefully in the numerous cemeteries which dot the landscape throughout Bartow County. Nowhere else is it possible to look so deeply into our past. [...]
By Peggy L. BrownSenior Warden, Church of the Ascension, 2019 On the occasion of the Episcopal Church of the Ascension’s 175th anniversary as a congregation, I asked our rector, the Very Rev. Mary K. Erickson, how the church today is connected to the one in 1844. “We have been proclaiming [...]
By Joe F. Head A sincere word of gratitude is extended to Mr. Stan Bearden for his civic mindedness to help bring these finds to the attention of the Etowah Valley Historical Society in the spirit of historic preservation Following the discovery of gold in north Georgia and the 1838 [...]
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 [...]
By Amy Young Presented to the Etowah ValleyHistorical Society in Completion of an Internship Program under the Directionof Joe F. Head as EVHS Intern Field Supervisor and Dr. Jennifer Dickey and Dr.David Parker at Kennesaw State University December 3, 2018 For anyone who has traveled in thesouthernmost parts of the [...]
Alexis Carter-Callahan, M.A. Photo Credit: Atlanta Parks Department George Washington Carver State Park “this is about more than color. it is about how we learn to see ourselves. it is about geography and memory.” -the river between us in Mercy by Lucille Clifton (2004) Introduction The creation of the historic [...]
Mining in Bartow County has been an important facet of the county’s economy for much of its history. The iron industry was made possible by the early discovery of vast iron ore (limonite) veins in the southeastern part of the county, and the mining industry grew to include manganese, barite, [...]
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Cartersville, GA 30120
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