Talk:Sweetwater Creek State Park

definitely needs more pictures
it's a beautiful park, this article needs more pictures. 12.41.255.10 (talk) 17:47, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

Anyone opposed to this? 12.41.255.10 (talk) 16:29, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Sweetwater Inn
Does anyone know anything about this property? Does it still exist? Candleabracadabra (talk) 19:11, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

The Sweet Water Park Hotel stood in nearby Lithia Springs between 1887 and 1912. It was a multistory Victorian structure that accommodated 300 guests. See www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/file/12135 for a photograph. Cycloneta (talk) 16:26, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

Sweetwater Creek State Park: Unsubstantiated charge that women were assaulted
"During the week while the women were held in Marietta, several Union soldiers allegedly committed acts of assault against their captives." No source is cited. Such a serious assertion needs some evidence. This unsubstantiated statement also appears before the sentence "The women and children were then sent North, many to Indiana, on trains", which does cite sources. Perhaps someone is hoping that the charge of assault will seem to be supported by the sources cited by the sentence that follows it. Cycloneta (talk) 18:38, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

Mercer University Press publishes fiction as well as nonfiction. Its description of the book is as follows: "Coming from a family that some would call addicted to storytelling, Sally Russell began listening nearly twenty years ago especially for stories that bring the past into the present. Storytelling is an important vehicle by which we bond with each other in multiple dimensions and generations. Russell invites readers to consider their own repertoires of stories, what they can learn about and from their own family myth, and how they can share that myth to inform, delight and strengthen." Cycloneta (talk) 02:35, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Cycloneta, I think I may have found the reference you requested. The source is rather plainly written, but from the Mercer University Press, nonetheless. It has been added to the article Gulbenk (talk) 19:33, 8 June 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks Cycloneta for looking that up. The Russell reference, being a bit of whimsy, should not be included in the article. I'll see to that, if it has not already been deleted. I'll try to track down a better source (if one exists). There are two articles which make reference to letters written by Union soldiers, claiming to have knowledge of the event(s). While I have read excerpts, I have yet to see the original source, and someone other than Bynum who can validate their authenticity. There may also be something in the Hitt book, which I'm trying to obtain, along with the article by (Col.) Hartwell T. Bynum, which makes that specific reference to the subject.

Hello Gulbenk. Thanks, the Bynum reference was helpful. It is available on JSTOR ("Sherman's Expulsion of the Roswell Women in 1864" by Hartwell T. Bynum, in The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Vol. 54, No. 2, Summer 1970, pp. 169-182, with the particular information about the alleged assault on p. 175). Bynum's source was the History of the 72nd Indiana Volunteer Infantry of the Mounted Lightning Brigade by B.F. McGee, published in 1882, which is online at Internet Archive. See page 338 of that book for the specifics. Cycloneta (talk) 15:13, 9 June 2014 (UTC)