Promoting and enhancing the awareness and preservation of the heritage and traditions of Bartow County Editor: Joe Head / Jeff Williams Copyright 2017 EVHS P.O. Box 1886, Cartersville, GA 30120 Phone: 770-606-8862 Volume 98, April 2017 ETOWAHVALLEY...
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Promoting and enhancing the awareness and preservation of the heritage and traditions of Bartow County Editor: Joe Head / Jeff Williams Copyright 2017 EVHS P.O. Box 1886, Cartersville, GA 30120 Phone: 770-606-8862 Volume 98, April 2017 ETOWAHVALLEY HISTORICALSOCIETY EVHS co-president Dianne Tate welcomes guests on Tuesday, March 7 to Emerson’s LakePoint Station and the Bartow Iron Works Mining lecture. The event hosted a standing room crowd of over 100 attendees to learn about the former mining property now being occupied by LakePoint Sporting Community. Stan Bearden, David Archer, Bill Popham and Joe Head presented information about the mining heritage of the area revealing how the area was settled, key personalities, ores mined, location of the former Bartow Iron Works Furnace, railroad spurs and how it was once a company mining town. The former community of Bartow involved up to 2000 acres and saw multiple companies that once operated in the footprint of what is now the sporting com
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