The Cornerstone of Bartow County’s History: Historic Identity from the Gold Dome 1903 Court House Time Capsule by David B. Parker Kennesaw State University     On April 21, 1902, six hundred people gathered on the corner of Erwin and Market Streets in Cartersville, Georgia, to observe the laying of [...]

  The Evolution of Schools in Bartow County, Georgia The First 100 Years Sam Jones Female College and first Cartersville High School until 1953 Elyse Hoganson, Intern Etowah Valley Historical Society Georgia College and State University HIST 4960 Dr. Jessica Wallace July 2016 Supervised by Joe F. Head, [...]

Emerson (Formerly Known As “Stegall’s Station”) By Sandy Lusk Early Mining in Emerson (photo courtesy of Georgia Archives) Emerson, originally known as Stegall’s Station, was first established as an agricultural community on land belonging to Emsly Stegall (1812-1888) of Pickens County, South Carolina. Emsly Stegall came to Cass [...]

Mattie Lee Price, the Forgotten Georgia Wonder By Donna Lee Dicksson   Bartow County’s own Magnetic Wonder “Mattie Lee Price” (1869-1899) of Bartow County, Georgia, was just fourteen when she became the second of the Georgia Wonder girls to come out of Georgia during the winter of 1883–1884.[i] The Georgia [...]

Last week, in a column on Marilu Munford, I mentioned her grandfather, Charles Henry Smith, who as “Bill Arp” wrote a weekly column for the Atlanta Constitution from 1878 to 1903. Bill Arp was extremely popular. In fact, it’s possible that for a few years in the 1880s he was [...]

The big bank robbery in Cartersville this past week reminded me of something that happened in Bartow County back on February 3, 1904. No, not another bank robbery. On that day, a baby was born near Adairsville to Walter and Mamie Floyd. They named him Charles Arthur. Later he would [...]

eBay, the online auction company, recently had an interesting item for sale: a postcard of the Cartersville depot from about a hundred years ago. Of the dozens of Cartersville postcards I’ve seen, this is my favorite. It shows the depot, of course, but also the city park that used to [...]

“Bill Arp” (Charles Henry Smith) was the most famous columnist to come out of Cartersville. His weekly pieces in the Atlanta Constitution, syndicated to hundreds of newspapers, made him one of the South’s most popular writers a century ago. Last year in this space, we wrote about Rebecca Felton, who, [...]

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 [...]