Etowah Valley Historical Society Ongoing Projects

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Historic Awareness Sign Program

Field-Tumlin Heritage Sign The Historic Awareness Sign Program was developed to identify and label homes and commercial buildings in Bartow County of historic and/or architectural interest that are at least fifty years old. Property owners participate in the project by displaying an historic marker in front of their home or business. Signs feature the name of the original owner of the structure and the date of construction, allowing visitors to our community, and local residents alike, to benefit from the information displayed.
Begun in 1992, the Historic Awareness Sign Program has since sold over seventy-five historical markers to preservation-minded homeowners throughout the county. Signs may be purchased at a cost of just $15, and are suitable for house mounting. Queen Anne wrought iron yard mountings are available at an additional cost of $35. For more information about purchasing a sign for your home or business, contact the Etowah Valley Historical Society at 770-606-8862, or Click Here to order your historic marker online.

Cemetery Documentation & Preservation

EVHS continues in its efforts to document previously unknown cemeteries, and to receive any updated information pertaining to Bartow County, Formerly Cass, Cemeteries, Volume 1. We also strive to insure the preservation of abandoned cemeteries and to update Bartow County Land Use Maps to insure that all known cemeteries and burials are listed. To this end, our committee coordinates with the Bartow County Building Permits/Inspections Office. Cemetery Headstone

Historical Sites Inventory

In 2004, EVHS undertook the task of updating Bartow County's inventory of historic sites. Over the next 18 months, some 45 volunteers spent more than 1,600 hours listing historical sites in Bartow County. The sites are listed in a 21-volume collection in the EVHS office located in the gold-domed courthouse building. Individual communities have been furnished with volumes pertaining to their community.
In July 2006, the inventory project entered its second phase that included placing information from the 21 binders into the following database categories: oral history, historic gardens, workshop for National Register of Historical Places, and a Cherokee work team.

An outgrowth of the historical inventory program is the oral history project that produces CD's of interviews with older citizens of life in Bartow County in times gone by.

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Cemetery Documentation & Preservation
EVHS continues in its efforts to document previously unknown cemeteries, and to receive any updated information pertaining to Bartow County, Formerly Cass, Cemeteries, Volume 1. We also strive to insure the preservation of abandoned cemeteries and to update Bartow County Land Use Maps to insure that all known cemeteries and burials are listed. To this end, our committee coordinates with the Bartow County Building Permits/Inspections Office.


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