ROBERT SCOTT DAVIS, JR., Director
Family and Regional History Program
Wallace State College
Hanceville, AL
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Robert Scott Davis, Jr. Biography | |
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Office Wallace State College 801 Main Street P.O. Box 2000 Hanceville, AL 35077-2000 USA Work Phone: (256) 352-8263 e-mail: [email protected] |
Home: 68074 Main Street Blountsville, AL 35031 P.O. Box 687 Hanceville, AL 35077-0687 USA Home Phone: (205) 429-5251 |
III. HISTORICAL
RESEARCH ARTICLES IN GENEALOGY\LOCAL HISTORY JOURNALS: "Scots-Irish Origins and Migrations." Georgia Genealogical Society Quarterly 17 (1981): 173-79. Reprinted in Wessie Connell, editor, Grady County Gleanings: A Community's Memories of a People at the Crossroads of a Place (Cairo: Roddenbery Memorial Library, 1987), pp. xiv-xvii. "Cherokees Remembered." Northwest Georgia Historical and Genealogical Society Quarterly 13 (1) (1981): 42-8. "The Secret of Fort Mountain." Northwest Georgia Historical and Genealogical Society Quarterly 13 (2) (1981): 25-6. "The Settlement at the Head of the French Broad River or the Bizarre Story of the First Walton County, Georgia." North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal 7 (1981): 62-74. Reprinted in the book Transylvania Beginnings: a History, ed. Mary Jane McCrary (1984), pp. 106-21. "Commemorative Issues of Georgia Newspapers." Georgia Genealogical Society Quarterly 18 (1982): 84-5. "The Georgia Provincial Rangers." Georgia Genealogical Society Quarterly 18 (1982): 139-51. "The Cherokee Village at Long Swamp." Northwest Georgia Historical and Genealogical Society Quarterly 14 (1) (1982): 34- 8. Reprinted in Charles O. Walker, Cherokee Footprints (Jasper, Ga.: The Author, 1988), vol. 1, pp. 3-7 and North Georgia Journal 4 (3) (1987): 36-40.. "Taking the 1820 Census of Hall County." Northwest Georgia Historical and Genealogical Society Quarterly 14 (2) (1982): 12- 3. "Sources for Writing County Histories." Northwest Georgia Historical and Genealogical Society Quarterly 15 (1983): (1) 26- 9; (3) 31-5. "Volcano in Georgia." Northwest Georgia Historical and Genealogical Society Quarterly 15 (2) (1983): 27. "Diamonds and Diamond Mining in Hall County, Georgia." Northwest Georgia Historical and Genealogical Society Quarterly 15 (2) (1983): 24-5. "Pickens County in the Civil War." North Georgia Journal 1 (2) (1984): 31-7. "Researching Your Civil War Soldier at the Georgia Department of Archives and History." Georgia Genealogical Society Quarterly 21 (1985): 169-76. "Yankee Soldier Has Civil War Adventure in Pickens County." North Georgia Journal 2 (1) (1985): 30-1. "The Vanishing Georgia Project." Georgia Genealogical Magazine no. 97 (1985): 221-22. "A Hymn From the Revolution." Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine 119 (5) (1985): 368-69. "I Never Killed But Six in All." Northwest Georgia Historical and Genealogical Society Quarterly 17 (2) (1985): 32-3. "Research in the Georgia Land Records." Heritage Quest 1 (1) (1985): 4-8. "'Indiana Jones' Davis and the Sawmill of Doom." Georgia Association of Historians Newsletter 11 (1985) (3): 12-3. "Rome 1859, An Insurance Report." Northwest Georgia Historical and Genealogical Society Quarterly 18 (1986): 23-4. "Gilmer's Sketches of Georgians." Georgia Genealogical Society Quarterly 22 (1986): 231. "Where the People of Georgia Go." Georgia Genealogical Society Quarterly 22 (1986): 150. "The Treasure of Little Turkey Island." Engineers and Engines 33 (4) (1987): 25-30. On an 1852 Georgia steam engine built by Robert Findlay of Macon and recovered from a Florida swamp by Hitup Maddox of Cartersville. "James E. Lenning in the Great War." Northwest Georgia Historical and Genealogical Society Quarterly 23 (2) (1992): 23-4. "North Georgia: An Informal History." Northwest Georgia Histori- cal and Genealogical Society Quarterly 23 (2) (1992): 36-7. "Plat Doodlings: Folk Art and Illustrated History." North Georgia Journal 3 (6-7) (1986): 74-9. "Portrait of a Train Robber: The Legend of Bill Miner." North Georgia Journal 4 (2) (1987):11-7. "Taking the Federal Census." Northwest Georgia Historical and Genealogical Society Quarterly 19 (1987): 15. "The Secret of Blood Mountain." Mountain Relic 2 (1981): 11-4. Reprinted in Ted Oliver, ed., Sketches of Union County History III (1987), pp. 9-10. "The Night Riders of Pickens County, 1889." North Georgia Journal 4 (2) (1987): 22-4. "North Georgia Travels of Explorer Charles Lanman, 1848." North Georgia Journal 4 (2) (1987): 25-34. "Just Where Was the Mackay House?" Ancestoring XII (1987): 67-70. "New Sources for Research at the Georgia Archives." Georgia Genealogical Society Quarterly 23 (1987): 175-78. "Fort and Blood Mountains: Secrets of the North Georgia Indians." North Georgia Journal 4 (4) (1987): 33-7. "Settlement of North Georgia: Greed and Speculation." North Georgia Journal 4 (4) (1987): 38-40. "Research in Georgia's Land Lottery Records, 1805-1846." Ancestry Newsletter 6 (1) (1988): 1-3. "Where Was It?." Tools & Technology 8 (1988): 14. On a New York iron foundry. "William Longstreet's Patent for a Steam Engine, 1788." The Stationary Steam Engine Society Newsletter 3 (January 1988): 14- 5. "Indians of Pickens County." North Georgia Journal 3 (6-7) (1986): 36-8. Reprinted in Charles O. Walker, Cherokee Footprints (Jasper, Ga.: The Author, 1988), vol. 1, pp. 1-3. "Traces of a Vanished Empire: The Bartow County Kingdom Called Etowah." North Georgia Journal 5 (1) (1988): 31-4. "The 'Evangelist of the Rails' Confronts Stephens County's Valley of Death: 1910 Wreck of the Southern Crescent Limited." North Georgia Journal 5 (1988): 11-4. "Forgotten Union Guerrilla Fighters From the North Georgia Mountains." North Georgia Journal 5 (2) (1988): 30-40. "Murray County Mystery: Carter's Quarters and the John Martin House." North Georgia Journal 5 (3) (1988): 27-33. "How Talking Rock Was Named." North Georgia Journal 5 (2) (1988): 18-19. "The Blue & Gray Return to Chickamauga, 1988." Northwest Georgia Historical and Genealogical Society Quarterly 21 (1) (1989): 20- 21. "My Ancestor Fought at Shiloh and I Don't Care: Other Uses For Civil War Records in Research." Genealogy Digest 19 (1989) (4): 21-24. "The South and the Civil War: Another View." In Hell or Glory 1 (1989) (1): 14, 18. "A Night of Terror in Pickens County: The Whitestone Flood of 1938." North Georgia Journal 6 (2) (1989): 34-6. "An 1854 Directory of North Georgia." Northwest Georgia Historical and Genealogical Society Journal 22 (2) (1989): 11- 15. "The Lawrenceville Manufacturing Company." The Heritage: A Quarterly Publication of the Gwinnett Historical Society (2) (1989): 37-39. "The North Georgia Moonshine War, 1876-1877." North Georgia Journal 6 (3) (1989): 41-46. "Memories of a Mountain Lockup: The Old Pickens County Jail." North Georgia Journal 6 (3) (1989): 47-50. "Georgian Bluecoats." Past Times (1989) p. 64. "Supplement to Indian Guide." Georgia Genealogical Society Quar- terly 25 (1989): 172-73. "Murder in Pickens County: The Fatal Dance." The North Georgia Journal 6 (1) (1989): 27-35. "An 1854 North Georgia Directory of Cobb County." Northwest Cobb Genealogical Society Family Tree (October 1989), np. "Where are the Records of the Fourteenth Colony, British East Florida?" Heritage Quest no. 22 (1989): 15, 19. "Freedmen's Bureau and Other Reconstruction Sources for Research in African-American Families, 1865-1874." Journal of the Afro- American Historical and Genealogical Society 9 (1989): 171-76. "Dead Towns and Forgotten Post Offices." Northwest Georgia Historical and Genealogical Society Quarterly 21 (3) (1989) 28- 9. "The New Georgia Loyalist Claims Microfilm." Georgia Genealogical Society Quarterly 25 (1989): 213-20. "The Missing Census Records Your Mother Never Told You About." Georgia Genealogical Society Quarterly 25 (1989): 247-48. "Georgia Civil War Research Update." Georgia Genealogical Society Quarterly 25 (1989): 252-54. "Tracing the Activities of a Georgia Civil War Unit." Georgia Genealogical Magazine 29 (1989): 89-94. "Finding a Lost Georgia Town, Community, or Post office." Heritage Quest no. 25 (1989): 71-2. "Pickens County Mysteries: A Place Called Alice." North Georgia Journal 6 (4) (1989): 39-43. "The Cherokees Among Us." Northwest Georgia Historical and Genealogical Society Quarterly 21 (4) (1990): 32-3. "Mysteries of the Mountains: Explorer Margaret Perryman and Traces of a Lost Culture." The North Georgia Journal 7 (2) (1990): 46-9. "The Georgia Buhrs: A Forgotten Mill Stone." Old Mill News 18 (4) (1990): 6-7. "Finding Your Georgia Civil War Ancestor." Northwest Georgia Historical and Genealogical Society Quarterly 22 (2) (1990): 3- 10. "Family Research in the Pickens County Library." Northwest Geor- gia Historical and Genealogical Society Quarterly 22 (2) (1990): 27-30. "Cherokee John Martin's House." North Georgia Journal 7 (3) (1990): 60-1. "The Noble Foundry: Cannon Makers of the Confederacy." Northwest Georgia Historical and Genealogical Society Quarterly 22 (3) (1990): 4-7. "The Demise of the County History?" Heritage Quest no. 30 (1990): 50-1. "Special Sources for Searching Your Georgia Civil War Ancestor." Heritage Quest no. 31 (1990): 47-50, 62. "Early Ellijay Execution: Anthony 'Tone' Goble and the Brown Murder of 1877." North Georgia Journal 8 (2) (1991): 51-5. "Legendary Lawman: The Last Raid of Lee Cape." North Georgia Journal 8 (3) (1991): 41-5. "Early Mountain Feud: Gunfight at Doublehead Gap." North Georgia Journal 8 (3) (1991): 61-4. "The 1923 Pickens County Jail-Break." North Georgia Journal 9 (1992) (2): 48-9. "Dining Delights in Jasper: A Woodbridge Inn Getaway." North Georgia Journal 9 (3) (1992): 10-17. "Disappearing Pioneer Tradition: Grist Mills in Pickens County." North Georgia Journal 9 (4) (1992): 10-3. "Lumpkin County Folk Hero: The Legend (And Truth) of Boney Tank." North Georgia Journal 10 (1993) (4): 42-46. "A Spy for Mr. Lincoln: The Story of North Georgia Civil War Spy James George Brown." Northwest Georgia Historical and Genealogical Society Quarterly 26 (2) (1994): 3-10. "The Burning of the Gwinnett County Courthouse in 1871: The Untold Story." Northwest Georgia Historical and Genealogical Society Quarterly 26 (2) (1994): 21-2. "The War of the Rebellion: The Official Records of the Civil War." Heritage Quest (62) (March/April 1996): 69-70. "Unionists in North Georgia: Obscure Pickens County Memoirs Discovered in Minnesota." North Georgia Journal 13 (1) (1996): 19-21. "Jones Valley and the Origins of Birmingham." Pioneer Trails 38 (1996): 8-15. "'A Water Fall Perhaps the Greatest in the World': A Trip to Amicalola Falls and the Cherokees in 1832." Northwest Georgia Historical and Genealogical Society Quarterly 29 (1) (1997). "Finding That Map." Heritage Quest no. 67 (January/February 1997): 18. "Pickens County's Most Historic Home: Former Tavern Preserved on the Federal Road." North Georgia Journal 14 (4) (1997): 12-14. "Civil War Claims Research: Julia Fuss Seeks Her Cotton." Heritage Quest no. 74 (March/April 1998): 99-100. "The Murder of Narcissa Fowler Revisited." North Georgia Jorunal 15 (2) (1998): 23-26. "The Shooting at Scarecorn Campground." North Georgia Jorunal 15 (3) (1998): 12-16. "Alabama's Resident Confederate Pension Records." Heritage Quest no. 77 (September/October 1998): 101. "Richard M. Cuyler's Struggles at the Confederate Arsenal in Macon." The Artilleryman 19 (4) (1998): 6-11. "The Road Ahead for Genealogy Collections. Heritage Quest, no. 28 (November/December 1998): 24-26. "Divorce Records in the Old Southeast." Heritage Quest, no. 28 (November/December 1998): 95. "North Georgia's Vanished Civil War Treasures." North Georgia Journal 16 (2) (1999): 36-42. "George Corn Tassels and the Destiny of the Cherokees." North Georgia Journal 17 (1) (2000): 35-40. |
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