In 1886 officials in Bartow County, Georgia, chose Washington W. King and Jonathan H. Burke to construct a covered bridge over Euharlee Creek. Euharlee is pronouned You-Harley. The Cherokee who lived in the area before they were forced west on…
William Brewster and other believers who believed differently from the Church of England broke away from the Church in 1606. They came to be called Separatists. England’s monarch King James and his government persecuted them. In 1608 Brewster led a group…
Dutch settlers arrived in America and founded New Amsterdam, later New York City, in 1625. At almost the same time that Dutch settlers arrived in New Amsterdam, “Wilt Heden Nu Treden,” a poem by Dutchman Adrianus Valerius, was published in The…
For three days last weekend, hundreds of women tramped on the powdery orange surface of a venue which usually hosts livestock shows. We strolled among the booths of Santa’s Workshop, an annual craft fair sponsored by a nearby Junior Women’s Club…
In 1892 twelve-year-old Catherine Evans of tiny Reo, Georgia, saw a family heirloom bedspread while visiting a relative. She thought that the bedspread, handmade by candlewicking, was so beautiful that she decided she would make one some day. Three years later, she did.…
Stilesboro, Georgia, home of the Stilesboro Chrysanthemum Show, is in Bartow County, Georgia. During the Civil War, General William Tecumseh Sherman and his troops came through Bartow County on their way to burn Atlanta and then burn a swath of Georgia…
