Adairsville, Georgia

Bartow County

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Adairsville is a city in Bartow County in the U.S. state of Georgia. The city had in the year 2010 4.648 inhabitants (as of the census of 2010), according to recent estimates, the population had grown to 4,677 well. (2012 ) Adairsville is located about a hundred kilometers north of Atlanta. In 1987, parts of the city ( Adairsville Historic District ) was added as a cultural monument in the National Register of Historic Places.

History

Adairsville was before the expulsion of the Cherokee from the area of the establishment of the Scottish immigrant John Adair who married a Cherokee. Crucial for the development of the place of construction of the Western and Atlantic Railroad from Atlanta to Chattanooga should be. 1847 railroad depot was built on the basis of William Watts. Watts house is still preserved and is situated on a hill overlooking the village. After the establishment of depots of the town began to grow significantly and forging, windmills and hotels were established. As a result of the recovery of the city was recognized as a municipality in 1854 and known as the " Granary of the State ". During the Civil War, one of the venues of the Andrews raid the village was in April 1862 ( "Great Locomotive Chase " ) and found it in the field of Adairsville on May 17, 1864 battle between associations of the Northern States under William T. Sherman and the Confederate troops held under Joseph E. Johnston. In commemoration of the events of 1862 is now in Adair Villes a year the three-day "Great Locomotive Chase Festival " on the first weekend of October instead.

Attractions

In the historical district of Adairsville there are numerous residential buildings and churches from the period before the Civil War and Victorian buildings. Worth mentioning is the historic railroad depot, which now houses a railway museum. Five miles outside of Aldairville is the Barnsley Gardens Resort, a manor house and gardens, which were built in the 1840s in the style of Romanticism.

Sons and daughters of the town

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