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Cartersville, Georgia

Cartersville is a city in Bartow County, Georgia, United States; it is located within the northwest edge of the Atlanta metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 23,187. Cartersville is the county seat of Bartow County.[6]

"Cartersville" redirects here. For other places with the same name, see Cartersville (disambiguation).

Cartersville, Georgia

United States

Georgia

Bartow

1850

Farish Carter[1][2]

Matt Santini

28.74 sq mi (74.44 km2)

28.62 sq mi (74.12 km2)

0.12 sq mi (0.32 km2)

787 ft (240 m)

23,187

810.20/sq mi (312.82/km2)

UTC−5 (Eastern Time)

UTC−4 (Eastern Daylight Time)

30120, 30121

770/678/470

13-13688[4]

0355017[5]

www.cityofcartersville.org

History[edit]

Cartersville, originally known as Birmingham, was founded by English-Americans in 1832.[7] The town was incorporated as Cartersville in 1854.[7] The present name is for Col. Farish Carter of Milledgeville, the owner of a large plantation.[8][9] Cartersville was the long-time home of Amos Akerman, U.S. Attorney General under President Ulysses S. Grant; in that office he spearheaded the federal prosecution of members of the Ku Klux Klan and was one of the most important public servants of the Reconstruction era.[10]


Cartersville was designated the seat of Bartow County in 1867 following the destruction of Cassville by Sherman's March to the Sea in American Civil War. Cartersville was incorporated as a city in 1872.[11]


On February 26, 1916, a group of 100 men and boys took Jesse McCorkle from the jail and hanged him from a tree in front of the city hall and riddled his body with bullets.[12]

(north-northwest)

Adairsville

(north)

Cassville

(south)

Emerson

(west)

Euharlee

(northwest)

Kingston

(southwest)

Stilesboro

(northern)

White

Grassdale Road (west)

The is on North Museum Drive in Cartersville.[20] The Booth is the second-largest art museum in Georgia, and houses the largest permanent exhibition space for Western art in the country. It is a Smithsonian Institution Affiliate.

Booth Western Art Museum

The is an archaeological Native American site in Bartow County, south of Cartersville.

Etowah Indian Mounds

formerly the Weinman Mineral Museum, is a Smithsonian Institution Affiliate and features the first digital planetarium in North Georgia. NASA has installed a camera that tracks meteors at the museum.[21]

Tellus Science Museum

The world's first outdoor sign, painted in 1894, is located in downtown Cartersville on Young Brothers Pharmacy's wall.[22]

Coca-Cola

a house museum, is the former home of noted evangelist Samuel Porter Jones,[23] for whom the Union Gospel Tabernacle (Ryman Auditorium) in Nashville was built, later to become the Grand Ole Opry.

Rose Lawn

The Bartow History Museum is located in the Old Cartersville Courthouse, c. 1870, in downtown Cartersville on East Church Street.

[24]

Savoy Automobile Museum is a museum displaying a diverse collection of automobiles and original works of art.

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The trails ascend to a summit at 1562 feet overlooking Cartersville. Atlanta & Allatoona Lake can also be seen from the summit. The trails are maintained by City of Cartersville Parks & Recreation.

Pine Mountain Recreation Area

Cartersville Primary School

Cartersville Elementary School

Cartersville Middle School

Cartersville High School

The schools that comprise the Cartersville City School System are:


There is also a private Montessori school:


Cartersville also has a college campus:

Anheuser-Busch

Georgia Power

Komatsu

a major flooring manufacturer

Shaw Industries

is based in the Cartersville Airport.

Phoenix Air

Manufacturing, tourism, and services play a part in the economy of the city. The city's employers include:


The city is home to Piedmont Cartersville Medical Center and The Hope Center, making it a minor healthcare hub for the surrounding area.

Law enforcement[edit]

In 2017, the Cartersville Police Department arrested 65 people at a house party because of a suspicion that there was an ounce of marijuana at the party. In 2022, a federal court awarded 45 of the arrested individuals a $900,000 settlement due to a violation of their constitutional rights.[26]
On September 8, 2022, Deputy Police Chief Jason DiPrima resigned after being arrested in a prostitute police-sting operation.[27][28]

The City of Cartersville launched a brand new, sleek, outside-of-the-box website June 14, 2021.

Official website

Archived May 14, 2013, at the Wayback Machine at New Georgia Encyclopedia

Cartersville

newspaper based in Cartersville

The Daily Tribune

radio station based in Cartersville

News Talk AM 1270