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 [...]
KINGSTON HISTORY: The ROME RAILROAD "Y" by Larry Posey © 2016 After passing the attractive “Welcome to Historic Kingston” banner and entering this bucolic and rural village, visitors often ask “Where is the history.” Indeed one must mix a robust imagination with historical facts and folklore to appreciate the unfolding [...]
The Legend of Chain Gang Hill A childhood memory re-ignites interest in Bartow’s forgotten Chain Gang Camp By: Joe F. Head Often family stories and legends fascinate children about the “old days.” They are spellbound with stories about ghosts, myths and fairy tales. One such family story kindled keen interest [...]
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