Pox and Pig Iron – Matthew Gramling

2024-01-29T15:46:04-05:00

A Public Health Crisis in Antebellum Bartow County By Matthew Gramling             For three months in the spring of 1849, pestilence and panic gripped antebellum Bartow County. Smallpox had broken out at the Etowah Iron Works and threatened to infect the entire county unless swift action was taken to contain [...]