When the bustle of a city slows, towns dissolve into abandoned buildings or return to woods and crumble into the North Georgia clay. In 1832, Auraria was one of the sites of the original American gold rush.
The remains of numerous towns dot the landscape - pockets of life that were lost to fire or drowned by the water of civic works projects. Cassville was a booming educational and cultural epicenter until 1864. Allatoona found its identity as a railroad town. Author and professor Lisa M. Russell unearths the forgotten towns of North Georgia.
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When the bustle of a city slows, towns dissolve into abandoned buildings or return to woods and crumble into the North Georgia clay. In 1832, Auraria was one of the sites of the original American gold rush.
The remains of numerous towns dot the landscape - pockets of life that were lost to fire or drowned by the water of civic works projects. Cassville was a booming educational and cultural epicenter until 1864. Allatoona found its identity as a railroad town. Author and professor Lisa M. Russell unearths the forgotten towns of North Georgia.
When the bustle of a city slows, towns dissolve into abandoned buildings or return to woods and crumble into the North Georgia clay. In 1832, Auraria was one of the sites of the original American gold rush.
The remains of numerous towns dot the landscape - pockets of life that were lost to fire or drowned by the water of civic works projects. Cassville was a booming educational and cultural epicenter until 1864. Allatoona found its identity as a railroad town. Author and professor Lisa M. Russell unearths the forgotten towns of North Georgia.
Details
Pages: 176
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Imprint: The History Press
Series: Lost
Publication Date: 17th October 2016
State: Georgia
Illustration Note: Black and White
ISBN: 9781467136518
Format: Paperback
BISACs: TRAVEL / Pictorials (see also PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional) PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional (see also TRAVEL / Pictorials) HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Reviews
"Ghosts aren't just individual people who were once alive. They can also be entire towns - thriving communities that now only exist in memories, historical documents or the remnants of old buildings. We learn more about some of these communities from Lisa Russell, author of the new book, 'Lost Towns of North Georgia.'" Georgia Public Broadcasting
"We often get asked about communities in and around Bartow County, including some that are no longer active communities. So I think there's a strong interest in some of those long forgotten places. It is important that we remember all of the communities that make up Bartow County, including those that may no longer be communities, but they certainly played a role in our development and the people that came from those communities played a role in the history that we have." Daily Tribune
Author Bio
Lisa M. Russell is a writer, instructor and academic assistant dean. She writes microhistory books about "lost things." She guested on several local television/radio programs and podcasts, including on the History Channel. She is a speaker and delivered a TED Talk about historic preservation. Russell earned her Master of Arts degree in professional writing (MAPW) from Kennesaw State University. In 2020, the university gave her the Distinguished Alumnus Award. Lisa teaches English full time at Georgia Northwestern Technical College and serves as the assistant dean of English. She is a part-time professor of communication at Kennesaw State University. In her "spare time," you can find Lisa exploring North Georgia with her microhistoric lens to discover her next "lost" story.
When the bustle of a city slows, towns dissolve into abandoned buildings or return to woods and crumble into the North Georgia clay. In 1832, Auraria was one of the sites of the original American gold rush.
The remains of numerous towns dot the landscape - pockets of life that were lost to fire or drowned by the water of civic works projects. Cassville was a booming educational and cultural epicenter until 1864. Allatoona found its identity as a railroad town. Author and professor Lisa M. Russell unearths the forgotten towns of North Georgia.
Pages: 176
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Imprint: The History Press
Series: Lost
Publication Date: 17th October 2016
State: Georgia
Illustrations Note: Black and White
ISBN: 9781467136518
Format: Paperback
BISACs: TRAVEL / Pictorials (see also PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional) PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional (see also TRAVEL / Pictorials) HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
"Ghosts aren't just individual people who were once alive. They can also be entire towns - thriving communities that now only exist in memories, historical documents or the remnants of old buildings. We learn more about some of these communities from Lisa Russell, author of the new book, 'Lost Towns of North Georgia.'" Georgia Public Broadcasting
"We often get asked about communities in and around Bartow County, including some that are no longer active communities. So I think there's a strong interest in some of those long forgotten places. It is important that we remember all of the communities that make up Bartow County, including those that may no longer be communities, but they certainly played a role in our development and the people that came from those communities played a role in the history that we have." Daily Tribune
Lisa M. Russell is a writer, instructor and academic assistant dean. She writes microhistory books about "lost things." She guested on several local television/radio programs and podcasts, including on the History Channel. She is a speaker and delivered a TED Talk about historic preservation. Russell earned her Master of Arts degree in professional writing (MAPW) from Kennesaw State University. In 2020, the university gave her the Distinguished Alumnus Award. Lisa teaches English full time at Georgia Northwestern Technical College and serves as the assistant dean of English. She is a part-time professor of communication at Kennesaw State University. In her "spare time," you can find Lisa exploring North Georgia with her microhistoric lens to discover her next "lost" story.
