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The funeral homes sued Tri-State and Marsh, eventually settling first for $36 million with the plaintiff's class in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. Ultimately, the Marsh defendants also settled for $3.5 million after their insurer, Georgia Farm Bureau, agreed to pay the settlement.
Due to Rome's forts and iron works, which included the manufacture of cannons, Rome was a significant target during Sherman's march through Georgia to take and destroy Confederate resources. [22] Davis' forces occupied Rome for several months, [ 23 ] making repairs to use the damaged forts and briefly quartering General Sherman.
The naming rights were sold to Rome-based State Mutual Insurance Company on February 28, 2003. [8] The terms of the agreement were $250,000 for 18 years. [9] In April 2022, the naming rights were sold to non-profit health care system AdventHealth.
Floyd County is a county in the Northwest region of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 98,584. [1] [2] The county seat is Rome. [3] Floyd County comprises the Rome, Georgia metropolitan statistical area.
John Bodel calculates an annual death rate of 30,000 among a population of about 750,000 in the city of Rome, not counting victims of plague and pandemic. [10] At birth, Romans of all classes had an approximate life expectancy of 20–30 years: men and women of citizen class who reached maturity could expect to live until their late 50's or much longer, barring illness, disease and accident. [11]
Lindale is located in southeastern Floyd County at (34.193495, -85.173713 It is bordered to the north by the city of Rome, the county seat.. According to the United States Census Bureau, the Lindale CDP has a total area of 5.5 square miles (14.3 km 2), of which 5.4 square miles (14.0 km 2) is land and 0.1 square miles (0.3 km 2), or 2.20%, is water.
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 ...
The Noble Brothers Foundry was a large ironworks manufacturer based in Rome, Georgia, United States. Its products included steamboat engines, furnaces, locomotives, and firearms (notably cannons) before, during and after the American Civil War. The remains of the facility can still be seen today.