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Broad Street in downtown Rome, Georgia. The history of Rome, Georgia extends to thousands of years of human settlement by ancient Native Americans. Spanish explorers recorded reaching the area in the later 16th century, and European Americans of the United States founded the city named Rome in 1834, when the residents of the area were still primarily Cherokee, before their removal on the Trail ...
A History of Rome and Floyd County, Georgia 1540–1922, Georgia: Cherokee Publishing Company, 2000. Amazon.com Morrell Johnson Darko, The Rivers Meet: A History of African-Americans in Rome, Georgia , Darko, 2003.
Oak Hill is a 170-acre (0.69 km 2) estate Greek revival mansion.Oak Hill was an original Victorian-style farmhouse that was built in 1847. During the American Civil War and the capture of Rome during The Atlanta Campaign, the estate was used by the Union soldiers as a place to stay. [1]
Sevier's men caught the Cherokee at the village of what he called Hightower (Etowah, or Itawayi), which is near the present-day site of Rome, Georgia. The Cherokee created a defensive position on Myrtle Hill [ 2 ] and used a guard to try to prevent Sevier from fording the rivers.
Possum Trot Church was built around 1850 in Rome, Georgia, United States, and was appropriated by Martha Berry as a Sunday school in 1900. The school grew to become Berry College . The original church building still stands on the Berry campus.
Chieftains Museum, also known as the Major Ridge Home, is a two-story white frame house built around a log house of 1819 in Cherokee country (today it is within present-day Rome, Georgia, United States of America). It was the home of the Cherokee leader Major Ridge.
In 1896, Massachusetts Mills opened a new mill in Lindale, Georgia. The mill produced 1/7 of all textiles in Georgia. 1,393 people were employed by the mill in 1903. In 1926, the mill was sold to Pepperell Manufacturing Company, giving the community and school the name Pepperell. At the time, the country was in the middle of a debate on child ...
The Between the Rivers Historic District in Rome, Georgia, USA, is a 90 acres (36 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The listing included 292 contributing buildings and three contributing structures. [1]