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New Name for City Cemetery

January 4, 2019
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| 1900s, Newspaper Articles

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 beautiful as well as a sacred spot, and we are glad indeed that the ladies of Cedartown have taken in hand the task of beautifying it. For […]

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Chief Collard and the Cherokee

December 13, 2018
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| 1830s, Native Americans

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 sons apparently posed for a photographer in their new Oklahoma home. He and one son wear Christian crosses on their necklaces, possibly indicating conversion by missionaries who […]

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Location of Charlie Town

December 13, 2018
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| 1830s, Newspaper Articles

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 columns to give a little history of the past forty-six years and a short record of my observations for that time. In 1837 my father moved from […]

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