[1] The Memory of the Great Locomotive Chase from Atlanta to Chattanooga Nikolas Kekel Abstract The Great Locomotive Chase is a prominent feature of the interpretive landscape in North Georgia. This paper examines the cause of the Chase’s popularity as well as how public historians have used the Chase [...]
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 Midnight Collision of the Chiefton and Senator By Joe F. Head The Great Train Wreck of Sunday, September 1863, may be more of Emerson’s exclusive claim to Civil War railroad fame than the celebrated 1862, Great Locomotive Chase that once raced through the old iron ore mining community. [...]
KINGSTON HISTORY: The ROME RAILROAD "Y" by Larry Posey © 2025 This article was originally published in 2016 as part of an Etowah Valley Historical Society event celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War in Bartow County. It is not a historical document, instead it is a narrative of [...]
The Great Locomotive Chase Sesquicentennial Celebration It might be argued that the Great Locomotive Chase” of April 12, 1862 was the first intrusion of the American Civil War onto Georgia soil, the first certainly into Bartow County. It was the earliest event of a prolonged struggle between the north and [...]
The Heart of the Chase The Great Locomotive Chase in Bartow County By: Joe F. Head The General On April 12, 1862 Bartow County was first introduced to the American Civil War when the famed locomotive, The General raced through the county commandeered by Union Spies on a [...]
The Yonah Blows Again By Joe F. Head Those familiar with the April 12, 1862, Great Locomotive Chase know that the first of the three locomotives used to chase the General was the Yonah, a native American name assigned to the ninth engine put into service on the W&A RR. [...]
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