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This memorial at the Historic Van Wert Cemetery has an interesting background story, but we’re saving it for our upcoming tour! #cemeterytours #museum #vanwert #rockmart #polkcounty
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“The Big Spring...has drawn many visitors from all over, including English author Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), who wrote poetry about the surroundings.” First One Hundred Years, L. D. Carter
The mumps, still having some material to play upon, linger in our midst. Cedartown Advertiser, 19 May 1881
Spring at last. The era of fleas approacheth. Cedartown Advertiser, 21 Apr 1881
It is awful to think of the consequences if a man would be shut off from his supply of lime for a while and then get loose in a cemetery. An ordinary tombstone would hardly be enough for a lunch for him. Cedartown Record, 27 Feb 1875
The "moonshiners" in the mountains of Northeast Georgia ... have had several skirmishes in the last few days with the deputies, in which the latter were glad to get out of the mountains alive. Cedartown Advertiser, 11 Dec 1879