Did you know Bartow County has a history museum?
The location of the museum is historic all by itself
since it’s located in Bartow County’s 1869 courthouse.
The museum's website states, “The Bartow
History Museum focuses on the settlement and development of Bartow County,
Georgia, beginning with the early nineteenth century, when the Cherokee still
inhabited the area. Early European settler life, the iron ore and bauxite
industries, Civil War strife, post-war recovery, the Great Depression era,
early textile industry, and notable figures are depicted through interactive
exhibits in the permanent gallery space.”
This Saturday, June 9th the museum is hosting a bus tour that will trace the route of the
Great Locomotive Chase through Bartow County on April 12, 1862 with author and
historian Joe Head. They will be
stopping at Emerson, Allatoona Pass, Cooper’s Furnace, Cartersville, Kingston
and Adairsville.
Tickets
are limited, so you would need to call as soon as possible. Included in your ticket is bus
transportation, lunch, admissions to museums and historic sites on the route
and other special treats. Tickets are
$35 each for members and $40 for what they refer to as “not-yet” members.
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