Etowah

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 ...

Etowah County, Alabama

Created by state legislature on December 1, 1868 from territory taken from Cherokee, DeKalb, Marshall, Blount, St. Clair and Calhoun Counties, having originally been formed December 7, 1866 as Baine County in honor of Confederate hero David W. Baine. Etowah ...

Etowah County War Memorial

World War I

Ables, Crawford

Aderholt, Carl

Atwood, Joe I.

Bagley, Hugh

Battles, Fred

Benton, Edwin J.

Berry, C.

Birchfield, Sam

Brewster, Everett

Buffington, Hugh G.

Bullard, Leo

Campbell, Earl C.

Cason, Floyd

Christenberry, Curn

Cochran, Grady

Coxwell, Elsie B.

Faucett Lester C.

Flemming, Joe

Fletcher, Newman W.

Garrison, Ed T.

Gattis, Paul

Gay, Margie

Gentry, John

Glenn, James ...

Etowah (Tumlin) Mounds

For over 100 years Etowah Indian Mounds were the Tumlin Mounds. In 1832 Col. Lewis Tumlin came to Cass County (Bartow) and drew the land lot that contained the mounds. Col. Tumlin served as county sheriff from 1834 to 1840. ...

Hightower (Etowah) Trail

At this point the noted Hightower (Etowah) Indian Trail crossed today’s Azalea Drive. With connections from Charleston, via Augusta, the old thoroughfare ran through this section to reach the Indian towns of present - day northwest Georgia. The Hightower Trail ...

Hightower (Etowah) Trail

Hightower (Etowah) Trail, one of the best marked Indian trails in Georgia, and a main road along which many settlers built their homes until the 1840’s, crossed this highway near here on its way to a nearby ford on the ...

Hightower (Etowah) Trail

Hightower (Etowah) Trail, one of the best marked Indian trails in Georgia, and a main road along which many settlers built their homes until the 1840’s, crossed this highway near here on its way to a nearby ford on the ...

Etowah and the War

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 the 1863, the Confederacy ...