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1880s / Newspaper Articles / Rockmart

Rockmart – A New Bank to be Established

January 4, 2019

ROCKMART NEWS A New Bank to be Established There–Other Notes Clay Bros. are making some very fine brick on Col. Dever’s property, in Rockmart. They make both rough […]

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1900s / Newspaper Articles

New Name for City Cemetery

January 4, 2019January 4, 2019

GREENWOOD CEMETERY New Name Given to Our City Cemetery By the Ladies’ Cemetery Association, Help Them Beautify It The final resting place of the dead should be a […]

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1830s / Native Americans

Chief Collard and the Cherokee

December 13, 2018January 4, 2019

Chief Collard lived peacefully in Cedar Town among white settlers until the Cherokee Indians were rounded up and driven from northwest Georgia in 1838. Later Collard and his […]

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1830s / Newspaper Articles

Location of Charlie Town

December 13, 2018April 20, 2019

Below is a newspaper article about Charlie/Char’le/Charlee/Charley Town. For a detailed history, visit http://trailofthetrail.blogspot.com/2009/11/newly-revised-site-report-for-cedartown.html. Some observations of an old residenter, Editor Advertiser: Please allow me space in your […]

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