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Lime Kilns can be seen just above center right in this Civil War era map. During the Civil War, old maps show two lime kilns located just east of Kingston. By the early 20th Century, Georgia State Geology publications mention the Akin Lime Kiln as being located near Cave Station in Bartow County. The Akin lime kiln stands mostly in decent shape. A lime kiln is a giant furnace used to convert limestone (Calcium Carbonate) into quick lime (Calcium Oxide). The Akin lime kil

The ruins of a spring house remain down a hill behind Stamp Creek Baptist Church near the village of White in Bartow County, Georgia. One day while exploring old iron foundries and lime kilns, I stopped for a break in an old baptist church parking lot. Stamp Creek Baptist Church was founded in 1853 in White Georgia. The graveyard across the road has its earliest burial just one year after the church was founded. While sitting near the back of the parking lot, I noticed a b

Charles Wallace Howard was born in 1811 in Savannah, Georgia. After graduating from college he attended seminary in Princeton, New Jersey. He was ordained a Presbyterian minister and, in 1838 traveled to England to research the colonization records for the State of Georgia. Reverend Charles Howard In the late 1830s Charles Howard moved to Cass County and bought 800 acres of land north of Kingston and along the Connesaga River. During that time the county lines were redraw

This blast furnace was built in 1852 in Bartow County off Stamp Creek. Originally called the Union Furnace, its ownership changed hands more than a half dozen times between its start and 1880. In 1875, this site was the first furnace in the United States to produce a commercial, high-quality ferro-manganese product at 67 percent purity. Its one-time owner, Willard P. Ward, had trained in Europe before venturing into the business in the United States. Ferromanganese is use

Policeman Lee Cape had always suspected his enemies would eventually get him. But he would tell his friends, “but when they do, I’ll be so old I won’t have lost too many years anyway.” William Lee Cape, better known as Lee Cape, spent the better part of four decades in law enforcement. Lee was born two years before the Civil War began and by the age of 18, had moved in with his grandmother who lived in Pickens County. Lee had a reputation by his early 20s of being a tough g