Corra Harris: Forgotten Contradictions A Historical Analysis Revealed among Personal Letters and Archaeological Finds Martha Berry (on the left) and Corra Harris (on the right) at In the Valley, 1922 Jordan Gentry Honors Capstone Project, Kennesaw State University Faculty Advisor: Dr. Terry Powis EVHS [...]
Personal Letters of Corra Harris Preface The following is a series of sixteen recently discovered, private letters written by Corra Harris to a close personal friend, Joy Akin of Bartow County. The letters reveal very private feelings and family matters that until this research have not been known to [...]
Some Facts About OAKLAND Also known as the “Lewis Place”, the “Armstrong Place”, “Birdwood”, and simply the “Brick House place” & The LOUTHER SPRING Bartow County, Georgia By Sam Graham March 2017 Searching property ownership in Cass County prior to the Civil War is difficult due to the loss of [...]
The Dress Lisa M. Russell Rebecca Latimer Felton was sworn in as the first female U.S. Senator on November 21, 1922, only twenty-seven months after the19th Amendment, which gave her the right to vote, was passed. Felton, appointed by a politically motivated governor, served only two days in the Senate. [...]
Reconstruction Bartow County Following the Civil War By Dr. Keith Hebert, Assistant Professor, Auburn University At the end of the Civil War, John King, a Bartow County soldier who had served in the 40th Georgia Infantry Regiment and spent the last months of the war in a northern prison camp, [...]
The Union Occupation of Bartow County by Trey Gaines Throughout the summer and fall of 1864, Bartow County experienced firsthand the devastation of the Civil War. Just weeks before, in May, Union and Confederate forces cut a path of destruction through the heart of the county, when over 150,000 troops [...]
The son of William Hollingsworth Wofford and Nancy M. Tatum William Tatum, Wofford was born June 28, 1823. He had two sisters, Rachel and Martha. The family ancestors were Revolutionary War heroes who had migrated to north Georgia to settle in the Habersham County area. William’s father died when he [...]
General Pierce Manning Butler Young (1836 – 1896) Pierce Manning Butler Young was the son of Carolina parents, Dr. Robert Maxwell Young and Caroline Jones both descendants of Revolutionary War patriot families. Pierce was born in South Carolina, but raised in Cass County, Georgia. Dr. Young inherited his father’s South [...]
Cartersville’s Lost Furnace By Joe F. Head Northwest Georgia and particularly Bartow County became home to a thriving iron furnace industry. Between 1830 and 1900 some dozen stone cupola furnaces were built from Sugar Hill south along Stamp Creek to Allatoona and Emerson Georgia. These furnaces were erected by a [...]
The Civil War Reaches Bartow County, Article 1 By Joe F. Head (A Civil War Sesquicentennial Article Series by the Etowah Valley Historical Society in cooperation with the Bartow History Museum) The Civil War first entered Bartow County on April 12, 1862, exactly one year to the day following the [...]
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