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Commissioned by Bartow County's African American Quilt Documentation Project, this monument honors the tradition that quilt patterns like Log Cabin and Flying Geese carried coded guidance for those escaping slavery, a powerful folk memory of the freedom struggle.
Pathways to Freedom: A Story in Every Stitch is a historical marker in Cartersville, Bartow County, erected in 2018. It is one of 139 historical markers documented in Bartow County, among 265 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 34.1660, -84.7964 near Cartersville. The nearest cataloged historic site is Been Working on the Railroad (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include A Bench By The Road, The Heart of the Chase, and Amos T. Akerman.
This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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