Pulaski County
This County, created by Act of the Legislature December 13, 1808, is named for Count Casimir Pulaski, Polish hero of the Revolutionary War who died fighting in Georgia and is buried in Savannah....
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Trail of Tears Cherokee
Trail of Tears Cherokee Walk in their Footsteps The area surrounding the Cedartown Big Springs was first inhabited by the Cherokee Indians. The land was prized for its abundance of sparkling...
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Sterling Holloway 1905-1992
Sterling Price Holloway, Jr., like his father, was named for Confederate General Sterling ´Pap´ Price. He was born on this site and went to school here then attended the Georgia Military Academy...
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Ivy Ledbetter Lee- Founder of Modern Public Relations
Ivy Ledbetter Lee, public relations expert, author, lecturer, and philanthropist, was born July 16, 1877, near Cedartown. He attended Emory College for two years and then went to Princeton, where...
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Big Spring Park
Asa Prior, born in Virginia about 1785, pioneered into this valley and purchased a large tract of land including this spring and Cedar Creek in 1834. In 1852 he deeded the spring and 10...
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Logan's 15th Corps at Swaintown
May 23, 1864, Maj. Gen. John A. Logan´s 15th A.C. (USA), camped here at Euharlee Cr., on the site of old Swaintown while Maj. Gen. G.M. Dodge´s 16th A.C. (USA) camped at Peek´s spring one...
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Dodge & Davis at Peek's Spring
The spring 175 yds. E. was the camping place of Maj. Gen. Grenville M. Dodge´s 16th A.C. of McPherson´s Army of the Tennessee (USA), May 23, 1864, enroute from the Etowah River to Dallas, Paulding...
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McPherson's March to Dallas
May 23, 1864. The Army of the Tennessee (USA), consisting of Logan´s 15th & Dodge´s 16th A.C., crossed the Etowah River at Woolley´s Bridge & by Old Macedonia Church & roads not now...
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Polk County
Created December 20, 1851 and named for President James Knox Polk, Cedartown is fittingly named for the trees which flourish in this beautiful valley. The city is a railroad center, has a...
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Pike County
Created by Act of Dec. 9, 1822, from Monroe County, Pike County originally contained part of Spalding, Upson and Lamar Counties. It was named for Zebulon Montgomery Pike (1779- 1813), leader, in...
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Old Newnan
In 1823 the Inferior Court Justices of Pike County selected the center lot in the county near here as the site for the county seat. This land was laid out into town lots and named Newnan to honor...
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Confederate Prison Camp
Here stood a Confederate prison camp for Union prisoners of war. Established about November 18, 1864, the camp held more than five thousand prisoners until the first week of January, 1865. These...
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Pierce County
This County, created by Act of the Legislature December 18, 1857, is named for Franklin Pierce, New Hampshire Democrat and fourteenth President of the United States, 1853 to ´57. He was a...
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Georgia Marble Company and the Village of Tate
The Georgia Marble Company began in 1884 as one of many small marble quarrying operations in the region. In 1905 Colonel Sam Tate became the company´s president, continuing in that position until...
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Old Pickens County Jail
This 1906 jail was built to replace the old rock jail that stood behind the courthouse. The rock jail had replaced the first county jail, a two- story log building. Dr. William B. Tate urged...
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