Site - Cassville Female College

Site - Cassville Female College is a Georgia historical marker in Bartow County, dedicated 1953.

At the intersection of US 41 and Willow Lane in Cassville.

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A large brick structure erected 1853. May 19, 1864 skirmishers of Polk's AC [CSA] withdrew from this ridge E. to Cassville, When pressed back by Butterfield's (3d) Div., 20th AC [USA] from the Hawkins Price house. Battery C, 1st Ohio Lt. Art.supported by 73d Ohio, 19th Mich. & 20th Conn. Regt's [USA] occupied the ridge & shelled the town as Johnson's Army [CSA] withdrew to ridge E. of it. At night Cassville was seized by the 19th Mich. & 20th Conn. Female College and the town were burned by Federal forces, Nov. 1864.

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Historical maps covering this location

1842 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1845 · Georgia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1856 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1856 · Alabama. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1896 · Cartersville, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Georgia, 1856, covering the location of Site - Cassville Female College, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Georgia, 1856, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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