Bartow Author's Corner
This area is provided by EVHS as a scholarly venue for local authors to publish their research or articles about Bartow County. (Submissions must be devoted to factual historical Bartow events, properties or personalities and be well documented with annotations, bibliography and/or footnotes. Submissions may not be editorials, fiction, politically themed nor represent bias agendas)
All articles are considered to be under copyright protection and are the property of the author and Etowah Valley Historical Society.
Early Industry and Business
- Cartersville’s Lost Furnace
- Cartersville’s Railroad Car Manufacturing Age
- Cooking Schools, Freezer Lockers and Canneries
- Historic Railroads of Bartow County – Gio Martino
- The Last Family Foundry, Joe Head
- Memories of a Beloved Locomotive, From the Last Man Who Drove It (Empire Mill)
- Train Wrecks of Bartow County – Joe Head
Native American
- Bartow’s Mound Legacy, Keith and Head
- Prehistoric Etowah Valley Timeline at the Dabbs Dig (Upper Dig)- Savana L. Deems and Terry G. Powis
- A Typology Analysis of Lithic Artifacts Recovered from a Middle Woodland Site in North Georgia (Lower Dig) – William Heflin
- Leake Mounds Site Article Series – Scot Keith
- Native American Cave Burials – Joel Sneed
- The Leake Site: The Earthworks – Scot Keith
- Entradas and Exchange, DeSoto, Matthew Gramling
- The Mysterious Rock Walls of Bartow County – J.B. Tate
- The Ancient Rock Walls of Bartow County – William Phillips
- Home Sweet Home: An Architectural Analysis of Native American Houses During the Middle Mississippian Period – Jordan Farkas
Who Were Mississippian Period Artists and What Was in Their Toolkit? – Riley James
Mississippian Lithics: Identifying Workshops in the Etowah River Valley – John Tomko
Civil War and Military Activity
- The Civil War Reaches Bartow County, Article 1
- The Decision to Abandon Cassville and Fall of Bartow, Article 2
- Bartow Burns and an Old Flame Remembered, Article 3
- The Civil War in Bartow County, Article 4
- The Union Occupation of Bartow County, Article 5 – Trey Gains
- The Battle of Allatoona Pass, Article, 6
- Reconstruction Bartow County Following the Civil War – Article 7, Dr. Keith Hebert
- Emerson’s Forgotten Train Wreck – Joe Head
- Etowah’s Camp Foster – Joe Head
- General Ormsby – Mitchel-David Dundee
- General Pierce Manning Butler Young (1836 – 1896)
- General William T. Wofford (1824 – 1884)
- Patriotism and Place Community, Commemoration, and Confederate Identity in Civil War Bartow County – Matthew Gramling
- Perceptions of the Great Locomotive Chase, Nik Kekel
- The Great Locomotive Chase Sesquicentennial Celebration – Joe Head
- The Heart of the Chase – Joe Head
- The Yonah Blows Again – Joe F. Head
- Uriah Stephens Kingston’s Voice of Resistance
Politics, Communities and People
- An Efficient Fire Department for the City of Cartersville – Sam Graham
- Amos T Akerman – Guy Parmenter
- Asa G. Candler – Joe F. Head
- Ascension Church’s Beginnings: 1844 to 1907 – Peggy Brown
- Cartersville’s Covid Chronicles – Debbie Head
- Community Cornerstones: The Baptist Landscape in Bartow County, Georgia – Amy Young
- Corra Harris Personal Letters, 1913 – 1925 Transcriptions – Jordan Gentry
- Corra Harris: Forgotten Contradictions – Jordan Gentry
- COVID-19 Not Bartow’s First Social Distancing Epidemic – Joe Head
- Emerson – Sandy Lusk
- Historic Newspapers of Bartow County – Joe Head
- Jessica Daves: Bartow’s Historic Fashionista – Debbie Head
- KINGSTON HISTORY: The ROME RAILROAD “Y” – Larry Posey
- Mattie Lee Price, the Forgotten Georgia Wonder – Donna Lee Dicksson
- Memories and the Meaning of Christmas in Bartow County – Matthew Gramling
- Preston Rudolph “Rudy” York – Terry W. Sloope
- Where Was Sanfordville? – Sam Graham
- Pretty Boy Floyd (July 13, 2003) – Dr. David Parker
- Rebecca Felton, Columnist (March 31, 2002) – Dr. David Parker
- Sam Jones, Columnist (Feb. 23, 2003) – Dr. David Parker
- Sam Jones in Palestine (May 18, 2003) – Dr. David Parker
- Sam Jones Memorial United Methodist Church: Legacy of the Stained Glass Windows – Paige Oglesby
- Some Facts About OAKLAND – Sam Graham
- Spirits of Pine Log Mountain – Dr. Donna Coffee Little
- The Abandoned “Paupers Cemetery” Bartow County Poor Farm and Paupers Cemetery – Sanford Chandler, Ed.D.
- Tenant Farming in Bartow County, Josh Reed
- The Dark Era of Bartow’s Chain Gang Camps
- The Dress – Lisa M. Russell
- The Evolution of Schools in Bartow County, Georgia – Elyse Hoganson
- The Ghosts of Glen Holly – Lisa Russell
- The Legend of Chain Gang Hill – Joe F Head
- The Sam Jones Female College – Joe Head
- 1903 Gold Dome Court House History – David B. Parker
- The Sam Jones Tabernacle – Joe Head
- Tinsley Park – Guy Parmenter
- Trinity Atkins at Friendship Cemetery
Resources and Geography
- Pleasure Trips to Bartow County’s Saltpeter Cave Following the Civil War – Joel M. Sneed
- Nitrate Mining in Bartow County – Joel M. Sneed
- Bartow’s Mining Legacy – Staci Lusk, Intern
- Bartow Bibliography Resource List – Dr. Keith Herbet, Auburn University
- Bartow’s Tunnel Mining Era Unearthed – Joe Head
- Silent Voices From Salt Peter Cave – Joel M. Sneed
Bartow Short Stories
These stories are historical excerpts and candid recollections of past events in Bartow County History. EVHS members are welcome to submit similar generational tales for consideration. Typically, these are historical incidences, recorded family stories, local legends, social interviews, instructional crafts or creditable oral history that have been passed down via diaries, genealogy, research, short stories or newsprint.
- Break it Till You Make It, Flintknapping – Darrell Ross
- Etowah River Historic Sites In Bartow County, Georgia – David Archer
- If you don’t eat it, I will (A Civil War Episode) – David Archer
Pioneer Citizen Recalled - 1851 Cartersville – David G. Archer
- Service To State and Country Is Legendary In Bartow County – David G. Archer
- Some History of Cartersville – David Archer
- The Etowah Indian Mounds and General William T. Sherman – David Archer
- The Unknown Heroes of the Battle of Allatoona – Joe Head
- Eddie Lee Wilkens Interview Krys King
- 4 Way Lunch Memories
