Reflections: Georgia African American Historic Preservation Network [Vol. 14, no. 1 (June 2017)]

Volume XIV, No. 1 June 2017
Leslie Spencer, Special contributor
PhD Student in History, Georgia State University
Insurrection in Hancock County: Revolt Forges a State Leader
There is a long history in the Americas of enslaved people
fighting for their freedom. Some well known efforts are
John Brown’s raid at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, the revolt in
Charleston, South Carolina led by Denmark Vesey, and
Nate Turner’s Revolt in Southampton, Virginia. Countless
other attempts have been lost
to history, including the 1863
rebellion in Sparta.
According to the 1860 census,
Hancock County’s population
was just over 12,000. More than
65 percent of the population
was black with roughly 8,000
individuals enslaved here at the
start of the Civil War. Just as
news of the war was spreading
among the ruling class, the same
type of news spread through the
enslaved community.
With the majority of the white
male population away at war,
enslaved people seized on the
opportunity to strike back at the
ruling class and, in some cases, free themselves from bondage.
Not long after Lincoln issued the Emancipation
Pro cl am at i on a s l ave n am e d “S av an n a h ,” w a s
reported as the first “to go over to the Yankees.” 1
1 Kent Anderson Leslie, Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege:
Amanda America Dickson 1849-1893, (Athens, GA: The UniverAbraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation
earlier in the year 1863. The local papers carried stories of
runaway slaves joining the Union Army.2
Many of these
stories fueled the fear of rebellion among slaveholders. The
Confederacy continued to run stories related to the arming
of Negroes. On September 13, 1863, reports estimated 100
enslaved people gathered together in a wooded area east
of Sparta. The Southern Recorder noted that 18 Negroes
were arrested for “combining and attempting to excite an
insurrection.”3

As early as March of 1863, the conspirators had begun to meet
weekly to plan the insurrection.4
Officers were appointed
to plan and lead the rebellion: Captain, Lieutenant, the
“next-man-in charge,” and the “last man.” According to
the Daily Intelligencer, the group was to “kill off old white
men and women and children” and “appropriate the young
women as wives.” The insurgents were then to make their way out
of Sparta and join up with [William S.] Rosecrans (commander
of the Union Army of the Tennessee) when he arrived in Atlanta.5
Four men were identified as the “ringleaders.”
Continued on Page 6
sity of Georgia Press, 1995), 53.
2 “The Enlistment of Negroes as Soldiers in the Southwest-The
whole thing shows up,” Confederate Union, (Milledgeville, GA),
Sep. 1, 1863.
3 “The Trouble in Hancock,” Southern Recorder, Oct 27, 1863
4 Ibid, 53.
5 “The Emeute in Hancock,” Daily Intelligencer, Oct. 17, 1863.
Fugative Poster, circa 1837
Courtesy of Wikipedia.org
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Bartow Leaders Blaze A Black Heritage Trail Through the County
I
n 2015 Georgia Supreme Court Justice Robert Benham,
a long-time resident of Cartersville, saw the opportunity
to help uncover unique African American places in Bartow
County, dating from the 1830s to 1970s. With support
from Bartow County Sole Commissioner Steve Taylor
and assistance from the County’s Office of Keep Bartow
Beautiful, Benham proposed creating a Bartow Black
History Trail to share the history of George Washington
Carver State Park (formerly Bartow Carver Park) and nine
other sites with a larger audience. The Bartow Black History
Trail concept is based on “Seven Steps to Plan a Heritage
Trail” by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
While each site holds great potential individually, as a whole
they provide an incredible opportunity for their community
to draw from millions of tourists traveling along Interstate
75 each week, lead them on a trip through time, and to
significant stories waiting to be told:
1. George Washington Carver Park, 3900 Bartow
Carver Road, Acworth, 30102. Established in 1950 as Georgia’s first
State Park for Negroes, the park
was led by John Atkinson, the first
black superintendent of a state park
in Georgia and a former Tuskegee
Airman. Today, the park is undergoing renovations. Park stewards
have received a grant for new directional and interpretive park signage
and plan a music festival with the
Third Annual George Washington
Carver Park Memories Day. www.VisitCartersvilleGA.org.
2. African-American Masonic Lodge, Aubrey Street,
(pictured below) and
3. Summer Hill School Complex, 129 Aubrey Street,
Cartersville, GA 30120
The masonic building tells the story of Summer
Hill’s bustling business community
for blacks that flourished between
1930, when it moved from downtown Cartersville, to 1960, when it
was destroyed by Urban Renewal.
As part of the proposed trail, this
Masonic Lodge could become a
minority business incubator and
a Maker’s Space, launching new
entrepreneurs again from the once bustling street.
Summer Hill School campus, served Bartow
County’s black students from 1889 to 1968. The
school story is featured in
“Summer Hill,” a Georgia Public
Broadcasting documentary.
Cartersville City Government
revived the campus which houses a museum, tennis courts,
hiking trails, a swimming pool
and a bronze statute of Professor James S and Mrs. Beatrice
Morgan (pictured here) who
led the school from 1925 to
1962. www.SummerHillHG.org.
4. Vinnie’s Cabin, Downtown Cartersville 30120
(pictured here)—Vinnie’s Cabin is a slave cabin
built circa 1855 and located
behind the Elijah Field Home
on North Erwin Street in
Cartersville. The cabin was
the home of family cook Miss
Vinnie (pronounced Vine-ee).
At one point, it was destined to
be moved to another location
for restoration. At this time the
cabin is under new ownership.
5. Black Pioneer’s Cemetery,
Euharlee Road and
6. Euharlee Covered Bridge, Covered Bridge Road
(pictured here), Euharlee 30145 are both located
on Covered Bridge Road in the
City of Euharlee.
The Black Pioneer’s Cemetery
dates back as early as the 1830s
and was recently restored and
added to the Euharlee History
Walking Tour. Small wooden
crosses mark the more than
300 graves of those ancestors
of Euharlee’s Black families.
This covered bridge was built
in 1886 by renowned bridge builder and freedman
Horace King and his son, Washington King, a graduate of the engineering program of Oberlin College. The bridge is listed on the National Register,
Sherri Henshaw, Keep Bartow Beautiful Coordinator, Bartow County Development Office, with assistance from Bartow Hisoty Center
Credit: Bartow County
Government
Credit: Bartow County
Government
Credit: Melissa Jest, HPD
Credit: Bartow County
Government
Credit: Bartow County
Government
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and is part of the Euharlee History Walking Tour.
www.euharleehistory.org.
7. St. James A.M.E. Church, Cassville Road,
Cassville, and
8. Noble Hill Wheeler School, off Joe Frank Harris
Pkwy NW, Cassville, GA 30123 are both located
along scenic stretches of the old Dixie Highway
route.
St. James A.M.E., formerly
Cassville Presbyterian
Church, was established in
1833, with the building believed to date to that period.
In 1863 the church structure
was commandeered to serve
as a hospital for wounded
troops, and was one of only
three buildings left standing
in the once proud county seat
after the “Burning of Cassville” in 1864. According to local historians, the
church was “given to black families living in Cassville,” in 1872 when the former white congregation
dissolved.
Noble Hill Wheeler School
is a restored Rosenwald School
on the National Register of
Historic Places and serves as a
museum as well as a small resource library. The school was
built in 1923 as the first Bartow
school for black children, from a
program created by the national
efforts of Booker T. Washington
and Julius Rosenwald to educate
black youth.
www.noblehillwheeler.org.
9. Gravesite of Melvinia Shields, at Queen Chapel
Independent Methodist Church,
Johnson Street, Kingston, Georgia 30145
Kingston holds the burial site of Melvinia Shields
(1844-1938) later known as Mattie
McGruder, great-great-grandmother
of former First Lady Michelle Obama.
Enslaved as a child, Melvinia Shields left
South Carolina when she was deeded to
the Shields family of Rex, GA.
Three of her four children were listed as
mulatto, and carried the Shields surname after the war.
Melvinia Shields migrated with her children to
Kingston. A tour and exhibit are available in
Kingston.
www.MichelleObamasGeorgiaRoots.org
10. Butler’s Shoe Store, Downtown Adairsville
30103 (pictured here).
The Butler’s Shoe Store on 105 Gilmer Street presents the story of Arthur Butler, a railroad maintenance man who lost his leg in a train accident and
went on to become a cobbler
and open a shoe store. Butler
worked upstairs here, making
shoes, belts, boots, and other
leather goods. This historic
site offers additional space for
the Adairsville Depot Museum
and street level space for a
retail shop.
The Bartow County Government will seek a Georgia
Tourism Product Development Grant in 2018 to support
the new trail. Each site will be linked by a printed guide, a
driving tour with an interactive app, and website links. For
more information, contact Keep Bartow Beautiful, Cultural
Affairs and Environmental Programs at
henshaws@bartowga.org.
~~~~~ In Memory of Joy LaDawn Hill-Watson
Director of Noble Hill-Wheeler Memorial Center and
the Summer Hill Museum
March 19, 1968 ~ May 29, 2017
Her work at Noble Hill and support of Carver Park has
helped preserve Black history in Bartow County for future
generations.
Photo courtesy of www.mackeppingerfuneralhome.com
Credit: Bartow County
Government
Credit: Bartow County
Government
Credit: Bartow County
Government
Credit: Melissa Jest
HPD
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The W. W. Law Collection: Preserving Law’s Legacy, Carrying on His Work, and
Inspiring Future Generations
Westley Wallace “W.
W.” Law (1923-
2002) was a prominent
Savannah Civil Rights
leader, local historian,
historic preservationist,
and community leader.
He w a s c o n s i d e r e d
not only an institution
builder but a Savannah
institution himself, and
was widely recognized as
the keeper of Savannah’s
African American history.
The W. W. Law Collection,
held at t he Cit y of
S a v a n n a h R e s e a r c h
Library & Municipal Archives, represents the bulk of W.
W. Law’s personal effects, left behind at the time of his death
in his Savannah home in 2002. The collection includes
more than 1,000 cubic feet of original manuscripts/paper
records, publications, visual and audiovisual materials, and
artifacts, and represents Law’s life-work. Upon his death, it
passed by last will and testament to Remer Pendergraph, a
long-time friend and mentee, who established the W. W. Law
Foundation to celebrate the life and support the legacy of Law.
In April 2014, the City of Savannah accepted the collection
through a deed of gift from the Foundation to ensure
the collection receives proper archival care and the
greatest public accessibility, recognizing that as Law was a
community treasure so is the collection that he left behind.
In 2015, a SPLOST 2003-2008 (Special Purpose Local Option
Sales Tax) agreement originally between Chatham County
and the Foundation was renegotiated between the County
and the City to fund archival curation of the collection
(including rehousing, preservation, cataloging, reformatting
and hiring project staff). The allocation of SPLOST funding
by Chatham County citizens, and the continued support of
County leadership of the Collection, attest to the importance
of Law, his work, and his continuing legacy to the community.
The City’s Research Library & Municipal Archives
Department is tasked with proper archival management
balanced with accessibility through a variety of outlets,
including: research collections; digital access, physical and
online exhibits, public outreach, educational programming,
partnerships with institutions established by Law, public
libraries, schools, community centers, and museums.
In order to maximize access during the multi-year archival
curation project, portions of the collection are made open to the
public as they are finished on a rolling basis, with the core research
collection available to the public through the city’s research room
in Savannah’s City Hall. Archival processing activities include:
arrangement and description (including cataloging/inventorying
and preparation of collection finding aids and research tools);
rehousing in archival, acid-free containers; preservation and
conservation activities (including pest infestation treatment,
cleaning, flattening, etc.); and conversion and digitization.
The overall W. W. Law Collection is diverse in format and subject
matter. It has been broken down into smaller collections, and work
is prioritized by researcher demand and outreach plans. All of
the smaller collections are interesting and support each other, for
instance the book and periodical collections have extensive holdings
related to music which support Law’s music collection of shellac
and vinyl recordings. Law was an avid music collector with a music
collection spanning most of the 20th century, in a variety of audio
formats, including shellac and vinyl, representing a wide range of
genres including jazz, classical, sacred, blues, folk, and narrative.
The photograph collection has many images documenting the
local NAACP branch and its activities during the Civil Rights
era, also documented in the Savannah Branch NAACP records.
Luciana Spracher, Director of Research Library & Municipal Archives
The City of Savannah, Georgia
Law at the Ralph Mark Gilbert
Museum, 1996
Courtesy of SavannahNow.com
Law’s home contributes to the Cuyler-Brownville Historic District
Melissa Jest, Historic Preservation Division
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Cultural Center, established by Law, on a three-year series of
exhibits from the collection. The first exhibit, “Through Law’s
Eyes: Select Works from the W. W. Law Art Collection”, ran
from March 2016 to January 2017. The second exhibit “Law &
Music: Discovering Music through the W. W. Law Collection”
includes interactive activities that touch on select Georgia
educational standards for K-12 students. It opened this April.
As archivists, the most exciting moments are watching
others discover and use the collections. We are thrilled with
student use of the collection, and by teachers incorporating
Civil Rights related materials into lesson plans. SCAD
graduate student in Photography, Trice Megginsonn featured
the collection in his thesis project “Reconstructing the
Narrative: Illuminating Savannah’s Civil Rights Narrative.”
Images from the collection have been used in Massie
Heritage Center’s “Enslavement through Emancipation:
Education in Savannah” exhibit, Georgia Historical
Society’s Savannah Protest Movement marker dedication
program, and the Smithsonian Institution’s National
Museum of American History’s “Giving in America” exhibit.
At heart, W. W. Law was an educator who continued to educate
himself (never seen without reading material under his
elbow) and always willing to share his knowledge with every
person he met on the street. The W. W. Law Collection not
only preserves his legacy but furthers his educational work
and continues to inspire us to live up to the high bar he set.
Please visit the City of Savannah, Research Library &
Municipal Archives at www.savannahga.gov/wwlaw or call
(912) 651-6412.
Highlights of the W. W. Law Photograph Collection (1868-2002)
include images of Savannah African American historic sites,
as well as photographs documenting the establishment and
activities of the Savannah-Yamacraw Branch of the Association
for the Study of Afro-American Life and History (ASALH),
the King-Tisdell Cottage Museum, the Beach Institute
African American Cultural Center, the Ralph Mark Gilbert
Civil Rights Museum, and the Negro Heritage Trail Tour.
The W. W. Law Art Collection (1849-1998) spans a variety
of artistic styles and media with original artwork by noted
Savannah, regional and national artists including Christopher
Murphy, Jr., Myrtle Jones, Margaret T. Burroughs, William S.
Carter, and Jonathan Green. The NAACP Savannah Branch
records (1941-2000) includes correspondence between Law
and national Civil Rights leaders like Langston Hughes,
Roy Wilkins, Thurgood Marshall, and Medgar Evers.
The W. W. Law Periodical Collection (1831-2001)
includes the first issue of the abolitionist newspaper
The Liberator, published on January 1, 1831. These are
just a few highlights of a rich and diverse collection
that continues to surprise the archivists processing it.
Collaboration has been key in reaching out to the community
regarding the W.W. Law Collection. The City Library & Archives
is partnering with the Beach Institute African American
The Ralph Mark Civil Rights Museum, Savannah, Georgia
Courtesy of Bina Designwww.bina-design.com/
Along with leading marches, Law led tours of the Beach Institue
neighborhoood as a preservation strategy, 1980.
W.W. Law Collection, CIty of Savannah
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Insurgence in Hancock County: Revolt Forges a State Leader
Leslie Spencer, continued from page 1
Each of these men was indicted and tried separately. All
were found guilty and sentenced to be hanged. Of the four
men who were sentenced to hang, two were put to death:
John Cain, a painter enslaved by Captain Elisha Cain of
Sparta, elected to be the Lieutenant of the insurrection; and
Cornelius “Mac” Simmons, a blacksmith enslaved by Alganon
[sic] S. B. Simmons and Mary A. R. Simmons of Sparta,
the “last-man.”6
The remaining two men who were spared
were: Spencer Beasley, a shoemaker enslaved by Charles
A. Beasley of Greene County, “the next-man”; and Richard
“Dick” Shaw a painter enslaved by Mrs. Shaw of Marietta, the
Captain, Beasley’s sentence was commuted to four hundred
lashes, and Richard Shaw was recommended for clemency.
Shortly after the four ringleaders were tried and sentenced,
John Cain and Spencer Beasley escaped from the Sparta
jail.7
Governor Joseph E. Brown issued a proclamation for
their capture and return. The reward for Cain was set at
$1000, and $500 for Beasley.8
Both were recaptured within
a few weeks of their escape. Cain was executed in January
of 1864. In spite of this escape attempt, Confederacy Vice
President Alexander Stephens and Judge Linton Stephens
along with other prominent citizens of Hancock County
supported reducing Beasley’s death sentence to lashes.9
The remainder of enslaved people arrested were tried
and received punishment from the Sparta’s “vigilance”
committee. Linton Stephens’ body servant, Cary was one
of those tried by the “vigilance” committee and received
lashes as punishment for his part in the insurrection. Cary
Stephens had the opportunity to lessen his punishment,
but he refused to testify against his co-conspirators.10
Bill Thomas, enslaved by Judge James Thomas (Linton Stephen’s
father-in-law) was a co-conspirator in the Sparta insurrection.
He had been enslaved by Judge Thomas at the age of 14 and
was known to be literate. Though against Georgia law, Judge
Thomas taught his enslaved to read so that they may read the
6 Kent Anderson Leslie, Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege:
Amanda America Dickson 1849-1893, (Athens, GA: Univ of Georgia Press, 1995), 53.
7 Ibid.
8 N.C. Barnett, “A Proclamation,” Confederate Union, (Milledgeville, GA), Dec 8, 1863.
9 J. William Harris, Plain Folk and Gentry in a Slave Society: White
Liberty and Black Slavery in Augusta’s Hinterlands, (Middletown,
CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1985), 168-169.
10 Ibid, 168.
Bible for themselves.11 Bill Thomas was Judge Thomas’
body servant and would have been present to overhear
many conversations between leaders in the Confederacy.
The Union victory would emancipate Bill Thomas.
According to his Freedman bank records, Bill Thomas was
born in September 1843. He was the son of Harrison McLane
and Eliza. He had two brothers and three sisters. His father
died circa 1854-55, around the time that Bill was taken to
Lancaster, the home of Judge James Thomas, located in the
southwestern section of Hancock County.12 After the war,
Bill Thomas changed his name to William Henry Harrison
and became one of the two elected black representatives
from Hancock County during Reconstruction.13 He and Eli
Barnes, the other elected Hancounty County representative,
would testify before U.S. Congress on Ku Klux Klan violent
activity in Georgia under the Ku Klux Act of 1871. Linton
Stephens would be one of the representatives from Georgia
to dispute their claims.
11 John Rozier, The Houses of Hancock 1785-1865, (Decatur,
GA: Auldfarran, 1996), 193.
12 “United States, Freedman’s Bank Records, 1865-1874,”
database with images,FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/
ark:/61903/1:1:NSTZ-FR9 : 24 December 2014), William Henry
Harrison, ; citing bank Atlanta, De Kalb, Georgia, United States,
NARA microfilm publication M816 (Washington, D.C.: National
Archives and Records Administration, 1970); FHL microfilm
928,576.
13 “United States, Freedman’s Bank Records, 1865-1874,”
database with images,FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/
ark:/61903/1:1:NSTZ-FR9 : 24 December 2014), William Henry
Harrison, ; citing bank Atlanta, De Kalb, Georgia, United States,
NARA microfilm publication M816 (Washington, D.C.: National
Archives and Records Administration, 1970); FHL microfilm
928,576.
Members of Bill Thomas’ family said to be buried
at Brown Chapel AME cemetery, Hancock County.
Courtesy of http://www.friendsofcems.org
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National Museum Conference panel features
Georgia’s Beaulah Rucker Museum
Rojene Bailey of The
Beulah Rucker Museum
in Gainesville rounds
out a tri-state panel to
discuss reusing African
American schools to tell
our story.
The panel, entitled
“D.E.M.O.” is one
of 36 professional
development session chosen for the Association of
African American Museums Conference, July 31 to
August 4.
Association of African American Museums
P.O. Box 23698, Washington DC 20026
202 633 1194 | www.blackmuseums.org
Photo credit: BeulahRuckerMuseum.org
Announcements
Genealogy Lecture at Georgia Archives’
“Lunch & Learn ” this Summer
Certified Genealogist®
Yvonne Mashburn Schmidt
presents on
About that Native
American Grandmother:
Clues that Help & Hinder
Our Family Stories
on July 14, 2017
at the Georgia Archives in
Morrow, Georgia.
This Lunch & Learn Lecture is free and no reservations
are required. Bring your own lunch as the session runs
from noon to 1 PM.
Georgia Archives-University System of Geogia
5800 Jonesboro Road | Morrow, GA 30260
678-364-3710 | www.georgiaarchives.org
Photo credit: www.georgiaarchives..org
Gullah Geechee Commission Seeks Director
The Gullah-Geechee
Heritage Corridor is a
National Heritage Area
spanning the coast of
North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia and
Florida. The corridor
Commission seeks
its next Executive
director to help spur
partnerships that will preserve and promote Gullah
and Geechee history and culture. Click or copy/paste
the followng link for more information: https://form.
jotform.com/53227942937161
Gullah-Geechee Cultural Heritage Commission
PO Box 1007 | Johns Island, SC 29457
(843) 818-4587 | info@gullahgeecheecorridor.org
Photo credit: US17coastalhighway.com
Hidden Figures Exhibit Honors Clayton County
Rosenwald School Champions
The “Hidden Figures:
A Cultural Experience”
exhibit honors local
educators Eula and Lillian
Arnold (pictured here)
who helped save the
Jonesboro Rosenwald
School they attended as
children. The exhibit was
sponsored by Clayton
County Convention and Visitor’s Bureau and Art
Clayton Gallery and included a re-created 1940s
classroom and artifacts.

Clayton County Convention/Visitors Bureau
104 North Main Street, Jonesboro GA 30236
(770) 478-4800 | (800) 662-7829
Photo credit: Clayton CVB and the Arnold Family
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response to a growing interest in preserving the cultural and built diversity of Georgia’s
African American heritage. This interest has translated into a number of efforts
which emphasize greater recognition of African American culture and contributions
to Georgia’s history. The GAAHPN Steering Committee plans and implements ways
to develop programs that will foster heritage education, neighborhood revitalization,
and support community and economic development.
The Network is an informal group of over 3,000 people who have an interest in
preservation. Members are briefed on the status of current and planned projects and
are encouraged to offer ideas, comments and suggestions. The meetings provide
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