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The great northern railroad/The Roselawn museum aftermidnight · Fjaftermidnight

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  Speaker 1: Every town has stories tied to the tracks. Names pass down,
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  Speaker 1: railroads remembered, details blored by time. In Cartersville, Georgia, there's
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  Speaker 1: a name some people mentioned, the Great Northern Railroad. Tonight
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  Speaker 1: we are asking a simple question. Was there ever a
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  Speaker 1: Great Northern Railroad in Cartersville? And if not, why does
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  Speaker 1: the story still exist? This is up to after midnight.
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  Speaker 1: If you study railroad history, the Great Northern Railroad is famous,
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  Speaker 1: but not in Georgia. It was a Northern railroad stretching
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  Speaker 1: across the Upper Midwest and Pacific Northwest states like Minnesota,
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  Speaker 1: Pacific North Dakota, Monte Hannah, and Washington. So why does
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  Speaker 1: its name sometimes surfaced in conversations here in Cartersville. Because
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  Speaker 1: railways don't just move right, they move stories. In town
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  Speaker 1: like Cartersville, multiple railroads operated over time, Southern Railway Louisville
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  Speaker 1: and Nashville Seaboard lines later C SX in Northern and Norfolk,
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  Speaker 1: Southern Worwards transferred families, moves, stories came with them their
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  Speaker 1: grandfather who worked up north. A story about a great
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  Speaker 1: Northern line, A powerful sounding name remembered long after the
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  Speaker 1: details faded over decades, name morged memories simplified, and they
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  Speaker 1: suddenly a railroad that never ran here feels like it did.
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  Speaker 1: The rails through Cartersilla carried iron from Bartow County, cotton
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  Speaker 1: and timber manufactured goods. Passengers headed north and south. These
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  Speaker 1: tracks connected to Georgia to the rest of the country,
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  Speaker 1: includes including Northern railroads. So while Great Northern trains never
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  Speaker 1: rolled through Cartersville, the idea of the North absolutely did
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  Speaker 1: through freight workers and destinations stories. In a way, Cartersville
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  Speaker 1: is still connected to a Great Northern territory, just not directly.
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  Speaker 1: The human memory of the road railroads live in people
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  Speaker 1: more than maps. A whistlehold as a child, a uniform
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  Speaker 1: worn by a parent, a story told later at night.
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  Speaker 1: Details don't always survive, but emotions does. When someone says
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  Speaker 1: Great Northern in Cartersville, they may really be remembering distance,
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  Speaker 1: power and scale, a railroad bigger than town limits, not
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  Speaker 1: a company, but a feeling. The mint becomes of a town.
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  Speaker 1: And here's the truth about history. If enough people remember
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  Speaker 1: something the same way, it becomes part of a local culture.
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  Speaker 1: Even if it's not technical accurate. That doesn't make it feel,
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  Speaker 1: It makes it human. The Great Northern Railroad of Cartersville
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  Speaker 1: exists not in steel, but in memory. Understanding these stories
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  Speaker 1: help us respect the real railroads that did shape Cartersville.
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  Speaker 1: He reminds us how deeply railroads influenced identity, how work
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  Speaker 1: traveled across rage, how Cartersville is never isolated. The tracks
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  Speaker 1: here were always pointed out northern south elsewhere. So where
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  Speaker 1: there is a great northern railroad in Cartersville, Georgia, Not
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  Speaker 1: on the maps, but in the stories and the names
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  Speaker 1: people remembered in the railroads connect places and memories. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: there was. This is after after midnight, and sometimes the
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  Speaker 1: most interesting story is the one people most almost remember. Wow, guys,
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  Speaker 1: so we learned a little bit of the north uh
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  Speaker 1: railroad here, and we may get into a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more into this episode because that only took four minutes.
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  Speaker 1: So give me a second ear and we'll get more
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  Speaker 1: episodes going here. M hmm, I like eccellently. Well, No,
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  Speaker 1: do it to get for It's the history of rosalamsam uh.
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  Speaker 1: I mean this episode sometimes I just role go too
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  Speaker 1: quick on things. So I'm going to get to my
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  Speaker 1: next soppa here the history of Arozon Museum. Hello, and
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  Speaker 1: welcome to f Day After Midnight. The show will be
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  Speaker 1: exporting the engines of history, culture and art. I'm your
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  Speaker 1: host FDA After Midnight, and today we're stepping inside the
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  Speaker 1: fascinating world of the region's most beloved landmark, and that
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  Speaker 1: would be Roselawn Museum. All right. Nested in the heat
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  Speaker 1: of Cartersal, Georgia, Rose Lawn Museum stands not just as
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  Speaker 1: a responsaitority of art and history, but as a living
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  Speaker 1: testament to the city which culture legacy. Now, but how
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  Speaker 1: did the stunning museum come to be? Today will dive
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  Speaker 1: into the history of Roseann Museum, uncovering its origin, its evolution,
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  Speaker 1: and the story it continues to tell. All Right, our
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  Speaker 1: story begins in the mid eighteen hundreds, long before the
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  Speaker 1: Force expedition was ever held. Was Joselon Museum. Back then
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  Speaker 1: the site was old to the grand mo jose Lawn extent.
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  Speaker 1: It was uh uh probably it was officially converted into
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  Speaker 1: a public uh well, this was the story of Ozelon
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  Speaker 1: as we know it today. Begin in the nineteen thirties,
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  Speaker 1: the property was officially converted into a public's museum. The
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  Speaker 1: goal was simply to provide a place for a community
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  Speaker 1: experience or in history up close in the borzor the
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  Speaker 1: beautiful or detecting great and of estate and its early days.
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  Speaker 1: Joson Museum hosted a variety of out exhibitions focused primarily
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  Speaker 1: on local history and arts. One of the most notable
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  Speaker 1: early exhibitions was a collection of showcasing the work of
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  Speaker 1: local arts or history of figures. This was a tuning
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  Speaker 1: training point for the museum as it helped statust Rosan
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  Speaker 1: as a prominent institution in the area. But as the
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  Speaker 1: decades passed, the museum collected crew and so did it reputation.
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  Speaker 1: By the nineteen fifties, Rosan had become a major center
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  Speaker 1: for regional art, and with the help of passionate careers
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  Speaker 1: and collectors, it began acquiring pieces that range from types
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  Speaker 1: of art and artfacture to rare historic documents in arteological finds.
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  Speaker 1: Roson in the modern day fast forward to today in
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  Speaker 1: Roson Museum as a culture cornerstone for Cartersville, Georgia, and
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  Speaker 1: for anyone with a lat of history or inherriage. The
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  Speaker 1: museum continues to honor its origin while embracing the future
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  Speaker 1: with new expeditions, interactions, spaces, and education programs for all ages.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, I occasionally will clean that building, but that
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  Speaker 1: building gives me the creeps anyway. What it does, this
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  Speaker 1: building gives me the creeps. Cleaning Rosan in day, it
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  Speaker 1: gives me a creeps. It's one of the scariest buildings. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: there's ghosts. I believe there's ghosts in there anyway, But
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  Speaker 1: it's not just about the past. The uniam has also
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  Speaker 1: played a pivotal role in the realization of the area.
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  Speaker 1: The grounds surrounding the mansion have been transferred into lost
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  Speaker 1: portion in the interior as undergo a series of you
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  Speaker 1: know theyations to presorbents. Good God, word you there before
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  Speaker 1: we get to the closing ram works holy shit. Uh anyway, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so I know I repeat myself a little bit here,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, I occasionally clean that building. It gives me
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  Speaker 1: the creeps. It's scary. It's a ghost building. Yes, there's
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  Speaker 1: ghosts in there, and a lot of times I felt
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  Speaker 1: like I got stabbed cleaning that, which is a little
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  Speaker 1: scary and a little concerning. Uh. But anyway, I clean
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  Speaker 1: that building. I clean a bunch of other buildings. But anyway,
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  Speaker 1: so my experience there was scary as hell. Someone called
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  Speaker 1: the ghostbusters, please, we need to ghost this building out. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: And that's the wrap on today's episode about the history
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  Speaker 1: of a Rozon Museum. I hope you enjoyed this journey
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  Speaker 1: through time and learning something new about this incredible local institution.
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  Speaker 1: If you never visited the museum, I highly recommend you
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  Speaker 1: check it out next time you're in the area. Thank
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