Acworth, Georgia, is an archetypal railroad town located just north of the booming metropolis of Atlanta. As it developed from a Cherokee trail to a town defined by train rails, and as it matured from a landscape dotted by farmsteads to a trade center, recreation lure, and suburban magnet, Acworth has retained its enduring charm and quality of life. Residents enjoy the quiet, peaceful pace afforded to those who make their homes in small towns; they have prospered and made livelihoods in a variety of ways-from gold mines to cotton bales to mill works. The community these hard-working men and women have created, and the lives they have enjoyed, are highlighted in this unique volume. Images of America: Acworth includes drawings, photographs, and postcards that capture the spirit of the town as a pioneer settlement, rail center, Civil War encampment, mill town, and lakeside village. Vintage images of homes, churches, clubs, and sports teams, culled from local libraries, scrapbooks, and personal collections, celebrate the social fabric of Acworth life and tell the story of the town's history through everyday faces and places.

Excerpt from History of Acworth: With the Proceedings of the Centennial Anniversary, Genealogical Records, and Register of Farms IT is believed that the pledge given the subscribers to the History of Acworth has been redeemed. As full a report as possible has been made of the doings and sayings of the Centennial Anniversary, only two Speeches being omitted. These were not reported to the compiler. The early history of the town has been made as full as the materials at hand would allow. Great pains have been taken to make the list of the owners of homesteads and the genealogical records accurate. Where families have taken the trouble to send in their family records, they will probably find but few mistakes. Sketches of professional men, natives of the town, are given so far as known. In many cases materials have not been at hand to make as full sketches as desirable, and in other cases the scissors have been freely used, both in gene alogical records and sketches, that a disproportionate space might not be occupied. Comparatively few, and very brief sketches of the early inhabi tants have been prepared, partly for want of materials, but more especially because, while the general standard of energy and thrift has always been high, there never has been an aristocracy of wealth or of worth - or rather the aristocracy of worth have been so numerous, and there has been such a sameness in their characteristics, induced by similarity of training, that it is impossible to select a few, without being unjust to the many necessarily passed over in silence. It has been found necessary to adopt as a rule, that no sketches of the present inhabitants of the town should be written, for the same reason. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.