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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18AV_iowa_Cartersville-GA.html
They Died so that our Nation Might Live
39th Iowa Volunteer Infantry
Brigadier General John Corse of Iowa commanded victorious Federal forces at Allatoona Pass
October 5, 1864
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1519_old-bartow-county-courthouse_Cartersville-GA.html
Has been placed on the
National Register of Historic Places
By the United States Department of the Interior
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM150P_amos-t-akerman_Cartersville-GA.html
Lawyer, U.S. Attorney for District of Georgia, 1869-70; U.S. Attorney General, 1870-71. Born Portsmouth, N.H., February 23, 1821; died in Cartersville, Georgia, December 21, 1880; buried Oak Hill Cemetery. Served as Confederate soldier in Georgia …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1266_friendship-cemetery_Cartersville-GA.html
This site was donated by Arnold Milner, owner of a farm on the Etowah River, to be used for a church and cemetery for his family and friends. Friendship Presbyterian Church held its first services here on February 26, 1843. The church met here unt…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1263_black-pioneers-cemetery_Euharlee-GA.html
333 marked graves in 2001Jim Scott 1871Hett Powell 1890
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM124X_mark-anthony-coopers-iron-works_Cartersville-GA.html
These ruins of an old iron furnace built by Moses Stroup are all that remain of Cooper's Iron Works, developed by Mark Anthony Cooper, pioneer industrialist, politician, and farmer.
Cooper was born in 1800 near Powelton, Ga. Graduating from S.C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM124W_etowah-and-the-war_Cartersville-GA.html
The Confederacy sought iron and munitions eagerly, which quickly brought prosperity to Etowah. Patriotic key workers, though exempt from army duty, enlisted, and loss of their skill hampered production.
Mark Cooper sold the works in 1862. In th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM124T_etowah_Cartersville-GA.html
Four miles east, in the gorge of the Etowah River, are the picturesque ruins of the once flourishing town of Etowah, developed by Mark Cooper around his iron furnace and rolling mill. The furnace was built in 1844, following one built in 1837 on S…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZTL_john-w-akin_Cartersville-GA.html
Initiated in Cartersville Lodge No. 63 on June 2, 1891, passed on June 30, & raised on Aug. 4, 1891. Was W.M. 1893, 1894, 1899 & 1901. Jr. Grand Warden of the Grand Lodge of GA in 1897 & 1898. Judge of Cartersville City Court, President of City Sc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVDW_the-army-of-the-cumberland-at-stilesboro_Taylorsville-GA.html
May 23-24, 1864: The 4th, 20th & two divisions of the 14th corps [US] converged here, from Etowah River crossings at Island Ford, Gillem's & Milam's bridges, & moved S.E. up the valley of Raccoon Cr. to Burnt Hickory P.O. (Huntsville).
The Arm…