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People / Women's History

Shirley Hamrick, Nurse at the Hall-Chaudron Hospital

March 1, 2023

The following is an excerpt from Attics and Fifth Wheels, an autobiography by Dr. Percy Octave Chaudron, and the perfect description of his beloved colleague and friend, Ms. […]

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People / Schools / Women's History

Anne Brumby, Superintendent of Polk County Schools

March 8, 2022

Miss Anne Brumby, Superintendent of Polk County schools, was educated in the public schools of Cedartown, the Samuel Benedict Memorial School, the Georgia State College for Women, Emory […]

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People / Schools

Robert Anderson Bryant, Cedartown Educator

February 23, 2022February 23, 2022

The Cedartown Standard, October 21, 1976 One of Cedartown’s most valued and respected citizens is Robert Anderson Bryant, principal of Cedar Hill High School from 1940 until his […]

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People

Memories of an ex-slave Nanny Whatley

February 3, 2022

Some years ago, two young fellows from Cedartown traveled the few miles to nearby Collard Valley to pay one of their customary visits to “Aunt Nanny,” as they […]

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People / Schools / Sports

Escue & Alice Rodgers

February 3, 2022

Content provided by Alice W. Rodgers, The Heritage of Polk County Georgia, 2000 Escue Rodgers, born in Piedmont, Alabama, came to Cedartown in 1945 to teach math and […]

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People / Schools

Remembering Cedar Hill

February 1, 2022February 1, 2022

Article by Janice Dobbins Laster The Georgia Legislature granted a charter for a public school system in Cedartown during the 1886-1887 session. Subsequently, the first school for blacks […]

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1900s / People

Miss Sara Hightower – Library Pioneer

March 18, 2021May 1, 2021

Sara Hightower, the helpful and smiling “little lady,” pioneered library science in Floyd and Polk counties. She is acknowledged to have ushered in a new era when she […]

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1800s / People

Asa Prior

March 17, 2021

After the Georgia land lottery of 1832 large numbers of white settlers had begun to move in and take over the lands of the Cherokee Indians. Some of […]

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1800s / People

James K. Polk

March 17, 2021

Very little attention is given it seems to James Knox Polk, 11th President of the United States, and the man for whom Polk County, Georgia is named. Maybe […]

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1890s / 1900s / 1910s / 1920s / 1930s / People

Music History: Ida Cox

February 6, 2020February 1, 2022

  Ida Cox, nee Prather, was a Cedartown-raised vaudeville performer who, along with Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith, founded the female blues genre. Born in 1888, Ida left […]

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