Railroad Block-House

Railroad Block-House is a Georgia historical marker in Bartow County, dedicated 1952.

Ga 293 at Sandtown Rd just north of Allatoona Lake in Emerson.

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On Allatoona Creek in this vicinity, a Federal block-house, guarding State R.R. bridge, was garrisoned by Companies E, F, and I, of the 18th Wisconsin Regt. [USA] Oct. 5, 1864 while retreating from Allatoona, 2 mi. N., French's Div. of Stewart's A.C. [CSA] burned the bridge and block-house, capturing 84 officers and men. The State R.R. was shifted N, in 1949 and 1950. Allatoona Creek was flooded by the impounded waters of Allatoona Dam.

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Historical maps covering this location

1864 · Colton's Georgia (1864) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1866 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1869 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1895 · Atlanta Campaign 3rd epoch. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1907 · Acworth, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Colton's Georgia (1864), 1864, covering the location of Railroad Block-House, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Colton's Georgia (1864), 1864, covering this location. Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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