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Cedartown is a city and the county seat of Polk County, Georgia, United States. [4] As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 10,190.Cedartown is the principal city of the Cedartown micropolitan area, which is included in the Atlanta–Athens-Clarke–Sandy Springs combined statistical area.
Polk County is a county in the Northwest region of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 42,853. [1] The county seat is Cedartown. [2] The county was created on December 20, 1851, by an act of the Georgia General Assembly and named after James K. Polk, the eleventh President of the United States. [3]
U.S. Route 278 (US 278) in the U.S. state of Georgia is an east–west United States Highway traversing the north-central portion of the state. The highway travels from the Alabama state line near Esom Hill to the South Carolina state line where it crosses the Savannah River in the Augusta metropolitan area.
In 1993, the Georgia General Assembly designated the US 27/SR 1 bypass around Cedartown as the "Syble W. Brannan Parkway", honoring a prominent Cedartown resident. [ 65 ] In 1994, the Georgia General Assembly designated the portion of the US 27/SR 1 between Summerville and Trion in Chattooga County as the "Ralph 'Country' Brown Highway ...
The Cedartown Commercial Historic District is a historic district in Cedartown, Georgia. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. [1] The district includes 65 contributing buildings, one other contributing structure, and a contributing object. The majority of buildings are one-story and two-story brick commercial ...
Route map U.S. Route 411. US 411 highlighted in red ... From the Georgia–Tennessee state line, ... US 27 south / SR 1 south – Cedartown, Georgia Highlands College:
Georgia is the only state that still allows sole commissioner county government. As of 2021, seven of the state's 159 counties operate under that system. During the 2022 legislative session, the Georgia General Assembly began considering reducing the number of counties in the state. [5]
The original white settlers who moved into this area of northwest Georgia centered their activities around this spring, calling their town "Big Spring". Asa Prior purchased the land around Big Spring in 1834. In 1852, Prior deeded the spring and adjacent land to the newly charted city of Cedartown. In more recent times, the spring was turned ...