Historic Price House

Historic Price House is a Georgia historical marker in Bartow County, dedicated 1952.

On Law Road 1.2 miles north of Kingston Highway (Georgia Route 293), on the left when traveling north in Kingston.

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2.5 mi. N.E. is the ante-bellum house of Col. Hawkins F. Price; State Senator, 1857-1865; Mem Ga. Secession Convention. A Landmark of military operations near Cassville, where both Gen. Daniel Butterfield & Gen Hooker (20th A.C.) [USA] had headquarters May 19,1864. Hooker had been order from Adairsville to Kingston, on false reports that Johnston [CSA] had retreated there. S. of Price House, Hooker discovered that Johnston had gone to Cassville.

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1856 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1856 · Alabama. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1866 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1869 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1896 · Cartersville, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Georgia, 1856, covering the location of Historic Price House, 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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Historic Price House

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