Polk County GaArchives News.....Old-Time Polk March 20 1919
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(The Cedartown Standard, Cedartown, GA
Old-Time Polk

   Mr. J.A. Prior, of Esom Hill, brought to our office the other day some 
extracts from an old book, “Historical Collections of Georgia,” which was 
dedicated by the author to Jas. Hamilton Couper, Hon. Geo. R. Gilmer and Hon. 
Jos. H. Lumpkin.  It has the following to say of this section, which will be 
read with interest by our older citizens.
   
Polk County
   This is a new county laid out in 1851.  It is bounded east by Paulding, west 
by the state of Alabama, south by Carroll, and north by Floyd and Cass.  
Length, 24 m; breath;  20 m.  Named after the late James K. Polk, President of 
the United States.  The streams are Pumpkin Pile, Euharlee, Cedar, etc.  In 
some parts the lands are of excellent quality, yielding cotton, corn, wheat, 
rye, etc.  Cedartown, in Cedar Valley, is the capital, handsomely located, 18 
miles from Rome, 25 from Dallas, and 9 from Cave Spring.  At Cedartown is one 
of the finest limestone springs in the state.  It is surrounded by a beautiful 
natural growth of cedar.  The spring affords water sufficient to move machinery 
of several horse-power.  It is proposed to supply the town with water by means 
of a hydraulic ram.  We feel peculiar pleasure in stating that the citizens of 
this county take a deep interest in the subject of education.  At Cedartown 
there is an excellent school called the Woodlawn Seminary under the direction 
of the Rev. Mr. Wood, a gentleman of very superior qualifications.  The 
institution is yet in its incipiency, but we feel confident that it will soon 
occupy a high rank among the many resorts of learning of which Georgia may 
justly be proud.  The following are the names of some of the persons living in 
the county at the time of its organization, viz; Thomas H. Sparks, Dr. E. H. 
Richardson, Wm. Peek, Asa Prior, Col. Springer, R. C. Gibson, Wm. F. Janes, W. 
E. West, G. W. West, James O. Griggs, B. F. Bigelow, W. O. B. Whatley, B. 
Crabb.  The first Superior court in this county was held on the second Monday 
of September 1852. (The Cedartown Standard, Cedartown, GA., March 20, 1919)



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