Cedartown is a city and the
county seat
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of
Polk County, Georgia
Polk County is a county located in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 42,853. The county seat is Cedartown. The county was created on December 20, 1851, by an act of the Georgia Gener ...
.
As of the
2020 census, the city had a population of 10,190. Cedartown is the principal city of and is included in the Cedartown, Georgia
Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the
Atlanta
Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the seat of Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia, but its territory falls in both Fulton and DeKalb counties. With a population of 498,715 ...
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Sandy Springs
Sandy Springs is a city in northern Fulton County, Georgia and an inner ring suburb of Atlanta. The city's population was 108,080 at the 2020 census, making it Georgia's seventh-largest city. It is the site of several corporate headquarters, i ...
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Gainesville, Georgia
The city of Gainesville is the county seat of Hall County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 42,296. Because of its large number of poultry processing plants, it is often called the "Poultry Capital of t ...
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Alabama
(We dare defend our rights)
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, seat = Montgomery, Alabama, Montgomery
, LargestCity = Huntsville, Alabama, Huntsville
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(part)
Combined Statistical Area
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.
The
Cedartown Commercial Historic District
The Cedartown Commercial Historic District is a historic district in Cedartown, Georgia. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
The district includes 65 contributing buildings, one other contributing structure, and a ...
is listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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. The
is also listed along with the Northwest Cedartown Historic District and South Philpot Street Historic District.
History
Cherokee
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and
Creek
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Creek may also refer to:
People
* Creek people, also known as Muscogee, Native Americans
...
Native Americans first inhabited the area known as Cedar Valley. The Cherokee people had established a village there in the 1830s after the Native Americans were forced out on the
Trail of Tears
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. The settlement was named for the
red cedar timber near the site.
The most famous of these settlers was Asa Prior. According to local legend, the water rights to
Big Spring were won for the white settlers by a local white boy in a footrace with a Cherokee youth. Some versions of the legend differ, saying that the rights to the spring were won by the Cherokee people from the Creek people in a ball game. "Big Strickland" became "Cedar Town" when Prior deeded ten acres of adjacent land to the newly chartered city in 1852. Van Wert (a mile from present day Rockmart) was the original county seat and Cedar Town became the county seat later.
During the
Civil War
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The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government policies ...
, Cedar Town was abandoned by most of its citizens when
Union
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troops encroached. The city was burnt to the ground by the Union forces of General
Hugh Judson Kilpatrick
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in 1865, leaving only one
mill
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*
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standing on the outskirts of town.
In 1867, the town was re-chartered by the state of
Georgia
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as Cedartown. An influx of industrial business bolstered its largely cotton-based economy, with Goodyear and other fabric mills and iron works appearing in or near what is now the Cedartown Industrial Park on the west side of town.
Industrial and passenger
railroad
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service was added to Cedartown in the early 20th century. Main St. became a part of
U.S. Route 27
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, a major north–south automobile route that connects Cedartown to larger cities like
Chattanooga, Tennessee
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and
Columbus, Georgia
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. U.S. 27 also intersects in town with
U.S. Route 278
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, which connects Cedartown with
Atlanta
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.
The
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
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built a large
textile
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mill operation in Cedartown, and also built a large residential section of town for mill workers, now known as the Goodyear Village.
In recent times, the Georgia Rails to Trails project has converted much of the former
Seaboard Air Line
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into the
Silver Comet Trail
The Silver Comet Trail is a rail trail in west-northwestern Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, United States.
Route
The Silver Comet Trail is named for the ''Silver Comet (train), Silver Comet'' passenger train that traversed the same route from 1 ...
, a federal and state funded park that connects many cities in northwest Georgia. The former Seaboard Air Line, now CSXT, tracks are still in place and used between Rockmart and Cedartown, to serve rail customers in both cities, connecting with the former L&N line in Cartersville, Ga on a former SAL branchline, that now serves a Georgia Power plant with Wyoming coal.
Cedartown's Main Street is listed in the
National Register of Historic Places
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in recognition of its 1890s architecture. During the 1970s, many structures were demolished, including train stations, churches, and a high school, and a theater on Main Street.
In January 2017, the Polk County Comprehensive Plan outlined investments to be made in the repair and construction of new sidewalks, street parks, and paving in Cedartown over the next decade.
Geography
According to the
U.S. Census Bureau
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, Cedartown has a total area of , of which is land and (0.44%) is water.
Many major highways pass through the city, namely U.S. Routes
27 and
278
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, as well as
Georgia State Route 100
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. U.S. 27 runs from south to north to the east of the city, leading north 19 mi (31 km) to
Rome
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and south 17 mi (27 km) to
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. U.S. 278 runs through the main part of town from west to east, leading east 14 mi (23 km) to
Rockmart and southwest 25 mi (40 km) to
Piedmont
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Alabama
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, seat = Montgomery, Alabama, Montgomery
, LargestCity = Huntsville, Alabama, Huntsville
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. GA-100 runs from south to north through the center of town as well, leading northwest 12 mi (19 km) to
Cave Spring and south 21 mi (34 km) to
Tallapoosa.
Climate
Cedartown has a
humid subtropical climate
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(
Köppen climate classification
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''Cfa''), with mild winters and hot, humid summers.
Arts and culture
*Cedartown Performing Arts Center
*Cedartown Museum of Coca-Cola Memorabilia
*Doug Sanders Golf Museum
Sites on the National Register of Historic Places:
* Cedartown Commercial Historic District
* Cedartown Waterworks-Women's Building-Big Spring Park Historic District
*
Hawkes Children's Library
* Northwest Cedartown Historic District
Demographics
2020 census
As of the
2020 U.S. census
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, there were 10,190 people, 3,573 households, and 1,915 families residing in the city.
2000 census
As of the
census
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of 2000, there were 9,470 people, 3,370 households, and 2,237 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 3,642 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 63.37%
White
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, 20.20%
African American
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, 0.21%
Native American, 0.37%
Asian
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, 0.12%
Pacific Islander
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, 14.13% from
other races
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, and 1.61% from two or more races.
Hispanic
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The term commonly applies to countries with a cultural and historical link to Spain and to Vic ...
or
Latino
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** Latin A ...
of any race were 22.62% of the population.
There were 3,370 households, out of which 29.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 43.1% were
married couples
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living together, 17.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 33.6% were non-families. 29.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 15.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.65 and the average family size was 3.18.
In the city, the population was spread out, with 25.1% under the age of 18, 13.2% from 18 to 24, 27.1% from 25 to 44, 18.2% from 45 to 64, and 16.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 32 years. For every 100 females, there were 102.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 99.9 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $24,562, and the median income for a family was $28,119. Males had a median income of $25,295 versus $20,711 for females. The
per capita income
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Per capita i ...
for the city was $12,251. About 20.3% of families and 24.3% of the population were below the
poverty line
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, including 28.7% of those under age 18 and 15.3% of those age 65 or over.
Education
The
Polk County School District holds pre-school to grade twelve, and consists of six elementary schools, two middle schools, and two high schools. The district has 449 full-time teachers and over 7,017 students.
Transportation and economy
With the shift away from
rural
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living patterns and toward
interstate highway
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satellite
suburb
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an living patterns, combined with the general U.S. shift away from
agricultural
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and
industrial
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economies, Cedartown is left in an awkward position. The city suffered a major economic blow when the
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
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closed its local
factory
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operations. For its employment, Cedartown mainly relies on the prospect of large
corporate operation centers such as
Cingular Wireless
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,
manufacturing
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operations like that of
The HON Company
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, and the
retail
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operations of
Wal-Mart
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.
The Hon Company is Cedartown's largest for-profit employer with over 800 employees. With a recently announced expansion, this number will grow in the near future. Cedartown is also home to an AT&T (formerly Cingular) technical support facility for the company's wireless customers.
The
Rome Plow Company, formerly located in
Rome, Georgia
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, is headquartered in Cedartown. It manufactured the
Rome plow
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Background
The plows took their name from the city of Rome, Georgia, where they were made by the Rome Pl ...
s used as jungle-clearing vehicles during the
Vietnam War
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and produced agricultural vehicles until it shut down in late 2009. Rome Plow has since been purchased and re-opened. The new facility recently underwent an expansion.
Access to nearby major cities such as
Atlanta
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,
Birmingham
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, and
Chattanooga
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is easier with the expansion of U.S. Highway 27, which is four lanes from I-20 into Cedartown. The four lane expansion will soon have U.S. 27 fourlaned all the way north to the Tennessee state line.
Passenger rail service to Cedartown ended in the 1969, with the discontinuance of the "Silver Comet" and SCL local trains #6 and #9, leading to the destruction of the historic Cedartown Depot train station. The city built a replica of the historic depot which now serves as the Welcome Center and the trailhead to the Silver Comet Trail. Rails of CSXT still are used in Cedartown and pass next to the new depot to this day.
The city does offer bus service and has frequent routes to neighboring Rockmart. The nearest stop on the
Greyhound
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line is a full service station in
Rome, Georgia
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, 20 miles north.
The nearest major airport is
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta, 70 miles southeast; several local shuttle services are available.
Popular culture
Country music
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artist
Waylon Jennings
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Jennings started playing guitar at the age of eight and performed at age f ...
had a minor hit single with the
murder ballad
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"Cedartown, Georgia" from the 1971
album of the same name. The slow, meditative song about betrayal and
murder
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was a portent of the
outlaw country genre's predilection for themes that stood outside of what was acceptable in the
Nashville
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music establishment:
Tonight I'll put her on a train for Georgia.
Gonna be a lot of kin folks squallin' and a-grievin',
'Cause that Cedartown gal ain't breathin'.
Media
Movie production
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Jayne Mansfield's Car
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'' (2012) is a drama movie featuring locations in Cedartown as a fictional city in
Alabama
(We dare defend our rights)
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, seat = Montgomery, Alabama, Montgomery
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. Visible is the historic downtown.
Notable people
*
Ray Beck
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Beck was born in Bowdon, Georgia and graduated from Cedartown High School ...
, All-American football player at
Georgia Tech
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and professional football player
*
Edgar Chandler
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, two-time All-American football player at the
University of Georgia
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, establ ...
and professional player for the
Buffalo Bills
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and
New England Patriots
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*
Nick Chubb
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, University of Georgia football alumni and professional football player for the
NFL
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Cleveland Browns
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.
*
Ida Cox
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(born Ida M. Prather, February 26, 1888 or 1896 – November 10, 1967) was an American singer and vaudeville performer, best known for her blues performances and recordings. She was billed as "The Uncrowned Queen of the Blues" lived in Cedartown, GA as a child.
*
Betty Reynolds Cobb
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She was one of the first women accepted to the Bar association, bar, and one of the first female lawyers in Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. In 1916, Mi ...
, an author and activist, was a native of Cedartown and the first woman in
Georgia
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to be admitted to the state bar.
*
Phil Douglas, was a
Major League Baseball
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player best remember for his time with the World Series Champion New York Giants.
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Korbin Forrister
Robert Korbin Forrister (born November 16, 1992) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He last competed part-time in the NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series, driving the Nos. 7 and 17 Toyota Tundras for All Out Motorsports. In ...
,
NASCAR
The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, LLC (NASCAR) is an American auto racing sanctioning and operating company that is best known for stock car racing. The privately owned company was founded by Bill France Sr. in 1948, and hi ...
driver
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Ethel Harpst, founder of the
Harpst House
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Agnes Ellen Harris
Agnes Ellen Harris (July 17, 1883 – December 18, 1952) was an American educator. She worked in education in Georgia, Florida, Texas, Washington, D.C., and Alabama, establishing Home Economics programs throughout the area. She was instrumental i ...
, educator
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Seale Harris
Seale Harris (March 13, 1870 – March 17, 1957) was an American physician and researcher born in Cedartown, Georgia. He was nicknamed "the Benjamin Franklin of Medicine" by contemporaries for his leadership and writing on a wide range of medical a ...
,
physician
A physician (American English), medical practitioner (Commonwealth English), medical doctor, or simply doctor, is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through th ...
and researcher, best known for his 1924 hypothesis of
hyperinsulinism
Hyperinsulinism refers to an above normal level of insulin in the blood of a person or animal. Normal insulin secretion and blood levels are closely related to the level of glucose in the blood, so that a given level of insulin can be normal for on ...
as a cause of
spontaneous hypoglycemia
Hypoglycemia, also called low blood sugar, is a fall in blood sugar to levels below normal, typically below 70 mg/dL (3.9 mmol/L). Whipple's triad is used to properly identify hypoglycemic episodes. It is defined as blood glucose belo ...
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Sterling Holloway
Sterling Price Holloway Jr. (January 4, 1905 – November 22, 1992) was an American actor and voice actor who appeared in over 100 films and 40 television shows. He did voice acting for The Walt Disney Company, playing Mr. Stork in ''Dumbo'', Ad ...
was a stage and screen actor with over 100 movies and television shows to his credit. He was well known for his distinctive tenor voice, and is best remembered as the voice of
Walt Disney
Walter Elias Disney (; December 5, 1901December 15, 1966) was an American animator, film producer and entrepreneur. A pioneer of the American animation industry, he introduced several developments in the production of cartoons. As a film p ...
's
Winnie the Pooh
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The first collection of stories about the character w ...
. Holloway was born and raised in Cedartown.
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Jan Hooks
Janet Vivian Hooks[Jan Hooks obituary](_blank)
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, actress, comedian and long-time ''
Saturday Night Live
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'' cast member who died on October 9, 2014, is buried in Northview Cemetery in Cedartown, Georgia. Cedartown was the place she spent many summers with family as a child.
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Sam Hunt
Sam Lowry Hunt (born December 8, 1984) is an American singer and songwriter. Born in Cedartown, Georgia, Hunt played football in his high school and college years and once attempted to pursue a professional sports career before signing with MCA ...
(born 1984), American singer and songwriter.
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Lulu Hurst, (1869–1950) also known as the "Georgia Wonder", was an American stage magician remembered for her demonstrations of seemingly miraculous physical strength. However, she later revealed that her feats had nothing to do with strength but were stage tricks accomplished by force deflection was born in Cedartown/Polk County, GA.
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Doug Sanders
George Douglas Sanders (July 24, 1933 – April 12, 2020) was an American professional golfer who won 20 events on the PGA Tour and had four runner-up finishes at major championships.
Early years
He was born into a poor family in Cedartown, G ...
, winner of twenty tournaments on the
PGA Tour
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.
Recreation
* The Silver Comet Trail
is located 13 miles northwest of Atlanta, Georgia. It's free of charge, and travels west through Cobb, Paulding, and Polk counties. The non-motorized, paved trail is intended for walkers, hikers, bicyclists, rollerbladers, horses, dog walkers, and is wheelchair accessible. The trail is 61.5 miles long, and starts at the Mavell Road Trailhead in Smyrna, Georgia. It ends at the Georgia/Alabama state line, near Cedartown and The Esom Hill Trailhead.
* Peeks Park: a city park located in Cedartown, Georgia. It has a variety of outdoor recreational equipment, picnic tables, tennis courts, a water feature, paved walking paths, trees and is "child and pet friendly".
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Hightower Falls
Hightower Falls is a waterfall and historic site in Cedartown, Georgia.
History
In 1843, Elias Dorsey Hightower, then 35 years old, built a cotton gin in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains beside an waterfall. During this time cotton w ...
: in 1972 opened for sightseers with history dating to the 1800's and Elias Dorsey Hightower
Images
File:Fall Festival 2017.jpg, Participants in the downtown Fall Festival.
File:Water Tower, Cedartown, Georgia.jpg, The water tower on Central Street
File:Big Spring Park, Cedartown, Georgia.jpg, Big Spring Park
File:West Cinema, Cedartown, GA, US (1).jpg, West Cinema
See also
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Big Spring Park, Cedartown, Georgia
Big Spring Park in Cedartown, Georgia contains a large limestone spring producing up to four million gallons of water per day providing water to 10,000 people in the area. The Cedartown Waterworks-Woman's building and the Big Spring Park are lis ...
References
External links
Official website
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Cities in Georgia (U.S. state)
Micropolitan areas of Georgia (U.S. state)
Cities in Polk County, Georgia
County seats in Georgia (U.S. state)