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28 (Sunday)-Rev. T. R. Kendall, Jr. left for Gainesville, and Rev. Elam F. Demp- sey, of Athens, assumed pastorate of First Methodist church.
DECEMBER-
1-Seventh District Medical Society, Dr. Howard E. Felton, of Cartersville, pres- ident, in one-day session at City Auditorium.
15-Kenneth G. Matheson, president of the Georgia School of Technology, Atlanta, addressed Rotary Club at Hotel Forrest; "Intelligence."
21-Tumlin Mercantile Co. burned at Cave Spring; loss, $25,000.
31-"Watch Nights" at churches; New Year ushered in.
1921
JANUARY-
1-Board of Roads and Revenues elected Judge John W. Maddox county attorney to succeed Graham Wright.
3-New city officials sworn in. Rev. A. J. Moncrief, pastor of the First Baptist church, accepted call to First Baptist of Pensacola, Fla.
4-Horace A. Wade, author at 12, drew 2,000 people in success talk at City Audi- torium. Floyd County Farm Bureau guests of Kiwanis Club at Hotel Forrest in move to establish creamery.
7-Rome Writers' Club organized with Mrs. Perrin Bester Brown president and Jack D. McCartney secretary.
10-Alex W. Chambliss, mayor of Chattanooga, appeared in civil case in Judge Moses Wright's Superior Court at Court House.
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21-President-elect Warren G. Harding, going to Florida, spoke ten minutes from rear of train to crowd of Romans at Southern Railway depot, promising an un- derstanding between North and South, and was heartily cheered.
23 (Sunday) -Small fire in Taul B. White's apartment at Hotel Armstrong; water damage considerable.
24-Miss Elizabeth Lanier, of Greenwich, Conn. (now Mrs. Robert Bolling, of Philadelphia, Pa.) arrived to spend a week teaching folk songs and dancing at the Berry Schools.
27-Mrs. George Maynard Minor, President-General of the Daughters of the Amer- ican Revolution, and Mrs. J. L. Buell, State Regent of Connecticut, at Berry Schools on visit. City Commission instructed Chief Harris to stop children from skating on streets.
FEBRUARY-
7-Dr. Chas. E. Barker, of Detroit, Mich., in talks deploring modern moral ten- dencies, addressed boys and girls, then women, at Auditorium, was entertained by Rotary Club at the Brown Betty Tea Room for dinner, and spoke again at night at the First Baptist church.
8-W. A. Sutton, principal of Tech High School, Atlanta, spoke to Boy and Girl Scouts at City Auditorium. Georgia School of Technology campaign for $5,000,- 000 launched in Floyd County. Wilson M. Hardy's garage on 3rd Avenue smashed by landslide from old Shorter College Hill.
11-Congressman Gordon Lee, of Chickamauga, registered for day at Armstrong Hotel.
MARCH-
2-Curb market projected by committee composed of Taul B. White, Walter S. Cothran, Wilson M. Hardy, and John M. Graham.
3-Capt. N. C. Remsen, of Greenville, S. C., new Tribune-Herald manager.
4-Better business predicted in Rome as Warren G. Harding, twenty-ninth Presi- dent of the United States, is inaugurated at Washington, D. C.
5-Supt. W. C. Rash announced county school teachers would soon be paid.
7-Basketball at Mt. Berry: Berry Schools 43, Rome Athletic Club 35.
8-Fire at Armstrong Hotel; damage about $40,000.
10-Georgia Federated Musical Clubs, Mrs. Frederic E. Vaissiere, of Rome, president, opened three-day session in Carnegie Library Auditorium; delegates welcomed by Miss Lula Warner, president of the Rome Music Lovers' Club, and Mrs. Wm. P. Harbin, and response was made by Mrs. Harry P. Hermance, of Atlanta.
11-Lester C. Bush, of LaGrange, elected secretary of the Rome Chamber of Com- merce, to report April 1.
20 (Sunday) -S. E. DeFrese, of Chattanooga, president of the Rome Municipal Gas Co., arrived at Hotel Forrest to investigate complaints against service furnished by his concern. Left hurriedly when Rome News invited irate citi- zens to lodge complaints with him by telephone.
24-Boy Scouts clean up Myrtle Hill cemetery.
27-First "Easter Sing" on top of Myrtle Hill Cemetery; speaker, Judge Moses Wright.
28-Baseball at Macon; University of Georgia 6, Yale 5.
30-Berry School students put in day of work on new artificial lake.
APRIL-
1-City Commission discussed $300,000 street and school bond issue.
2-Baseball at Athens: University of Georgia 2, Yale 1. Eagle Troop of Girl Scouts hiked to Rotary Lake, Shorter College.
3-Dr. B. V. Elmore, of Blountstown, Fla., arrived as new County Commissioner of Health, succeeding Dr. E. O. Chimene, who went to Greenville, S. C.
4 -- Georgia Tech Industrial Tour party, with K. G. Matheson, Governor Hugh M. Dorsey, former Governor Jos. M. Brown and others and Tech band, lunched at Hotel Forrest, was welcomed by J. Ed Maddox, responded through Dr. Mathe- son and inspected Rome.
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5-J. H. Hoffman, Atlanta landscape architect, inspected City Auditorium Park with Mrs. W. M. Henry and Miss Anna Graham, of Women's Club. Simpson Grocery Co. fire; loss, $125,000.
9-Hawthorne Troop of Girl Scouts on hike to Carlier Springs.
11-12-American Legion showed official war films at City Auditorium.
14-Twenty-four Boy and Girl Scouts on trip up Oostanaula River nine miles to Whitmore's Bluff in Frank Holbrook's Steamer Annie H.
16-Emory University Glee Club at Shorter College.
21-Dr. Albert Shaw, of New York, editor of American Review of Reviews, and Mrs. Shaw arrived for five-day visit to Berry Schools from Cuba. Seventh Dis- trict Water Power Convention in hot session at City Auditorium. Floyd County men pledged $6,000 to Georgia Tech fund.
25-Second Boy and Girl Scout trip to Whitmore's Bluff on Annie H.
26-Confederate Memorial Day exercises in Myrtle Hill Cemetery led by Judge John W. Maddox, Capt. Henry J. Stewart, Rev. E. R. Leyburn, Miss Helen Knox Spain and Major Wm. A. Patton; about 200 present.
27-Jos. S. Stewart, of Athens, professor of secondary education, on visit to Rome Public Schools.
28-City Attorney Max Meyerhardt, Mrs. Roy Berry, Mrs. J. Lindsay Johnson, Mrs. C. T. Jervis and Mrs. James Maddox as committee laid before State Rail- road Commission at Capitol, Atlanta, Rome's complaint against inferior gas service.
MAY-
1 (Sunday)-C. R. Wilcox, of the McCallie School, Chattanooga, Tenn., arrived to take charge of the Darlington School. Camp sites at Cloudland, Chattooga County, offered Boy and Girl Scouts by Will and John Ledbetter. Rev. J. Ellis Sammons preached first sermon as pastor of the First Baptist church.
2-Southeastern Express branch office opened. City Commission in special ses- sion voted wreaths for Battey shaft May 5 at Rome and Grady shaft May 24 in Atlanta.
3-Dr. H. A. Morgan, president of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, spoke at the Berry Schools.
4-Medical Association of Georgia opened three-day session at City Auditorium. Seventh District Masonic convention opened two-day session at Masonic Temple. University of Georgia drive for $1,000,000 started. Municipal band stand an- nounced ready on City Hall park site.
5-Masons adjourned after midnight feast at Masonic Temple. Dr. Howard A. Kelly, of Baltimore, Dr. E. T. Coleman, of Graymont, Dr. Howard E. Felton, of Cartersville, and Dr. Geo. R. West, of Chattanooga, spoke at unveiling of mon- ument to Dr. Robert Battey in City Hall Park, and shaft was accepted for City of Rome by Ernest E. Lindsey. Doctors repaired to Coosa Country Club for barbecue; at morning session passed resolutions giving to Dr. Crawford W. Long credit for the discovery of anesthesia, and calling on the Legislature to appropriate money to put his statue in Statuary Hall at Washington.
6-Doctors adjourned.
9-Baseball at Hamilton Park opened season in Georgia State League: Lindale 3, Rome 2 (15 innings).
14-Rome Curb Market opened opposite postoffice on Fourth Avenue, with Mrs. Hamilton Yancey, Jr. and Mrs. Bessie B. Troutman, president of the Women's Auxiliary of the Chamber of Commerce, and Chief of Police Charlie Harris in charge. Aurora Borealis seen in sky near midnight; got Thos. Colegate out of bed.
18-Third Boy and Girl Scout trip, to Black's Bluff, Coosa River, on Annie H. At Macon : Drill team of Rome Commandery No. 8, Knights Templar, Chas. N. Burks, drillmaster, won $100 Liberty Bond for drill.
20-Shorter College's 47th Commencement started.
21-Shorter players staged Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night."
22-Municipal band stand in City Hall Park presented to City of Rome by Wo- men's Club through Mrs. W. M. Henry and accepted by E. E. Lindsey for City. Rev. J. Ellis Sammons delivered baccalaureate sermon at Shorter College.
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The Floyd County Court House, built in 1892-93 by Jos. B. Patton, contractor, and which replaced the old structure of Court (East First) Street, where barristers had pleaded the cause of justice for half a century. The northern outlook is upon the Oostanaula River.
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Princess Rahme Haider, of Syria, and Miss Lucille Burgess in performance at Fifth Avenue Baptist church.
23-Rev. Wm. Russell Owen, of Macon, delivered Shorter Commencement oration; award of diplomas and barbecue at "Maplehurst." Berry Schools summer sea- son opened.
26-Rev. Elam F. Dempsey spoke at Edmonia Newman Institute graduation exer- cises at First Baptist church. Darlington School commencement in East Rome. 27-Chautauqua Week opened; performances in tent behind City Auditorium.
31-Ben Greet Players on Chautauqua program.
JUNE-
3-Ralph Bingham, Philadelphia humorist, delighted large Chautauqua crowd.
5-North Georgia Fair Association directors elected H. A. Dean president; John M. Berry first vice-president; H. H. Shackelton second vice-president; James M. Harris treasurer and Lester C. Bush secretary.
6-Women held mass meeting in favor of issue of $750,000 road bonds for Floyd County.
16-Floyd County's $750,000 road bond issue carried by 3,102 to 67.
21-District School performance at City Auditorium as benefit for Women's Aux- iliary of Chamber of Commerce.
JULY-
1-Judge Moses Wright, Barry Wright and Harry P. Meikleham speakers at Lin- dale, when Massachusetts Mills Auditorium is accepted by American Legion as memorial to Lindale men who lost lives in World War.
2-Greenwich, Conn .: J. Simpson Dean, Princeton 1921, of Rome, won Intercol- legiate Golf championship, defeating Jesse Sweetser and others.
4-Double header baseball game at Hamilton Park: Lindale 5-2, Rome 2-3. Motor boats active all day on rivers.
7-Opening gun fired in fight to extend city limits of Rome and include 7,000 more people and revenue. Doctors returned from Seventh District Society meeting at Calhoun. Adj. Gen. Peter C. Harris told Rotary Club at Hotel Forrest ha hoped for early end of all wars.
9-Municipal swimming pool project started.
13-Robt. W. Van Tassel, of Lindale, made Colonel on Governor Hardwick's staff. 16-Mrs. J. Lindsay Johnson sold controlling interest in Rome Tribune-Herald to J. Ed Maddox, Thos. W. Lipscomb, E. E. Lindsey and associates.
27-"Sequoyah," house boat built by Scoutmaster Ed King's Boy Scout Troop 2, launched on Oostanaula river in Fourth Ward before large crowd; prayer by Rev. J. L. Hodges; principal speakers, James Maddox and Claire J. Wyatt.
30-Rev. Harry F. Joyner's Maple Street Community House playground and gym- nasium opened in East Rome.
31 (Sunday)-Notice given of approaching city Clean-up Week.
AUGUST-
3-Committees named for Home-coming Week, October 10-16.
8-Limits extension bill introduced in Georgia Legislature, Atlanta, by Hon. John Camp Davis, of Floyd.
11-News-Kiwanis dairying and creamery project commended at Hotel Forrest luncheon by Roland Turner, of Southern Railway Development Service. Rotary Club, Walter S. Cothran, president, started city planning project.
19-Kiwanis Club and Women's Auxiliary of the Chamber of Commerce presented Miss Frances Brown, lyric soprano, in song recital at City Auditorium.
20-Dr. Carl Betts, Richard A. Denny, Jr., and Edward Hine winners of finals cups in North Georgia Tennis Tournament at Coosa Country Club.
21 (Sunday)-Judge John C. Printup launched movement to erect monument to Floyd County boys who lost lives in World War.
22-Hughes T. Reynolds, Kiwanis Club president, and W. E. Bowers, county agri- cultural agent, addressed one-day farm institute members at Berry School. Dr. Carl Betts' Scout Troop 4 off for Ship Island, Oostanaula River, on Annie H.
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TWO ORGANIZATIONS ACTIVE IN THE UPBUILD OF ROME
To "keep the pot boiilng" toward a more progressive citizenship is the job of a number of worthy organizations in Rome, one of which is the Rotary Club (at top), and another the Kiwanis Club (bottom). These business associations have taken the lead, ag elsewhere, in charity work and warm welcomes to visiting individuals and delegations. "He profits most who serves best," say the Rotarians, "We build," chirp the Kiwanians.
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23-Floyd County Sunday School Association Convention at Berry Schools.
24-Barclay Terhune, Chulio District farmer, again brought to Rome first bale of cotton of season; sold to Taul B. White at 211% cents a pound.
26-Congressman Gordon Lee got Howitzer at Camp Jackson, S. C., for memorial to Floyd County boys of World War.
27-Coosa Country Club held swimming and diving contests. Miss Helen Knox Spain started Rome Musical Center on Lower Broad Street, with touch of Bo- hemia. Floyd County Farm Bureau's first annual picnic at Morrison's Camp Ground.
SEPTEMBER-
2-Rev. S. E. Wasson, of Atlanta, and Rev. Horace Freeman, of Newnan, offici- ated at military funeral at First Methodist church of Lieut. Walton Shanklin, U. S. A., killed in France Oct. 15, 1918, in Argonne Forest drive. City Com- mission refused petition of Rome Municipal Gas Co. for increased gas rate. Lee J. Langley, attorney, appointed by Governor Hardwick member of State Waterway and Canal Commission. Girls' School at Mt. Berry opened.
3-Hugh L. Hodgson, pianist, and T. Goodwin, both of Athens, motored through Rome on way home from Chattanooga tennis tournament.
5 (Labor Day)-Boy Scout swimming and diving events at "Head of Coosa." Motor boat races won by Fred Hoffman's "A. M. L." Baseball, double header : Lindale 6-2, Rome 2-1.
6-Rome committee failed to make connection at Cartersville with Dixie tourists going to Cincinnati from Jacksonville. Cotton up; 20 cents a pound.
10-Miss Nettie Dickerson, 60, of Cave Spring, killed in auto accident on Alabama Road. Fifty Rome girls nominated for Home-coming Queen.
11 (Sunday)-Rev. and Mrs. G. Campbell Morgan and Misses E. and K. Morgan and Howard Morgan, their children, had supper at the Hotel Forrest en route to their new home in Athens, Ga. Gordon L. Hight returned from Chicago radio convention.
12-LaGrange won Georgia State League baseball pennant from Lindale. Etowah River clearer than the Oostanaula at Rome.
13-Jas. A. Holloman, of Washington, addressed Kiwanis Club at Hotel Forrest on tax problems. Fatty Arbuckle movie pictures at Elite Theatre called off by Manager O. C. Lam. Main leak under Oostanaula River at Fifth Avenue caused City Manager Sam S. King to cut off water for about 10 hours for Fourth Ward, West Rome and Berry Schools.
15-Shorter College opened forty-eighth annual session with 207 girls from 16 states; 135 from Georgia, 15 from Alabama, 15 from Florida and 12 from Ten- nessee. Senator Wm. J. Harris, of Cedartown, on visit to Rome and Berry Schools.
16-Roman Minstrels put on Red Cross benefit performance at City Auditorium.
17-Robt. M. Gibson winner over Arthur S. West of Coosa Country Club golf trophy.
20-Public meeting addressed by Linton A. Dean, Bernard S. Fahy, Byard F. Quigg, H. H. Shackelton, Rev. W. M. Barnett and Gordon Watson, urging more money for public schools.
21-John Robinson's circus in Fourth Ward.
22-Salvation Army drive opened with W. L. Shaddix in charge. Dr. Elizabeth B. Reed, of the U. S. Public Health Service, Washington, spoke at the Berry Schools.
23-Miss Madeline Cashin, of Peoria, Ills., put on local amateur players in "O, O Cindy!" Gay Jespersen's Lindale band signed for North Georgia Fair, Octo- ber 10-15.
24-Congressman Gordon Lee visited Curb Market. Bowie Stove Works destroyed in East Rome fire with loss of $100,000.
OCTOBER-
1-Football on Darlington Field, East Rome: Central High School (Chattanooga) 7, Darlington School 6.
2-Jewish New Year celebrated two days.
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3-Mass meeting at City Auditorium discussed city limits extension and proposed McLin cotton mill.
8-Miss Louise Berry elected Queen of Home-coming week and ball. Football at Hamilton Field: Rome High School 30, Disque of Gadsden 0.
10-Fritz Lieber, Shakespearean player, in "The Merchant of Venice" at City Audi- torium. Governor Thomas W. Hardwick, of Atlanta, spoke at opening of North Georgia Fair on state tax and revenue problems.
11-Horse races at fair, George Stiles winning. Principal speaker for day, Lee J. Langley.
12-Horse races at fair. Principal speaker, State Senator J. H. Mills, of Butts Co.
14-Home-coming day at Fair. Races. Miss Louise Berry crowned Queen by H. A. Dean, following addresses by H. H. Shackelton, home-coming chairman, and Hon. Wright Willingham. Hon. Claude H. Porter spoke under auspices of the League of Women Voters in favor of disarmament and peace. Day's attend- ance, 10,000. Queen's Ball at Shrine Hall at night, Fred Malone acting as King.
14-Dairy Day at Fair. Roland Turner and J. F. Bazemore, speakers. Races. Boy Scouts in Indian pageant at night. Football at Marietta, Ga .: Rome High School 6, Marietta High School 0.
16 (Sunday)-Mrs. John R. Barclay assured of strong support in race for Rome postmastership. W. A. Parker, of Community Service, New York, N. Y., spoke at First Methodist and First Christian churches on need of more recreational and outdoor facilities in Rome as an aid to healthful and wholesome young citi- zenship.
21-Football at Hamilton Field: Rome High School 25, Marist College (Atlanta) 7.
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"Big John" Underwood, the grocer, "steered" away from Rome, according to "Bill Arp's Scrap Book," to accept a commission at Savannah as a member of the staff of Gov. Jos. E. Brown. Lacking harness, he employed other means. "Big John" was in the Georgia Guard detail which arrested John Howard Payne in 1835. Many other Romans refugeed from the city from 1863 to 1865.
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"Chiaha" was the Indian for "Otter Place" (now Rome) ?
Bayard Franklin Jones, New York artist, was born in Rome in 1869?
Alexander H. Stephens, Benj. H. Hill and Alfred Iverson visited Rome in the same week in 1860?
James Noble, Jr., and associates founded the Rome Volunteer Fire Department? Henry W. Grady was a member of Rainbow Steam Fire Engine Company No. 1?
Judge John W. Hooper moved from Cassville to Rome directly after the Civil War?
George Barnsley, of Barnsley Gardens, Bartow County, before 1861 boarded with Mrs. J. G. Yeiser on Third Avenue, and Frank L. Stanton lived there for a short time?
Major Wm. A. Patton, stationed at headquarters telephones, helped direct sector artillery operations in the World War battles of St. Mihiel and the Argonne, France?
John Hume brought the first bath-tub to Rome, from Charleston, about 1850? Daniel R. Mitchell owned the first piano?
Coosa Old Town was an Indian village on the Coosa River near Rome, South Rome side, and was destroyed on or about Oct. 17, 1793, by Gen. John Sevier, ancestor of numerous Romans?
An erratic character known to the Cherokee Indians as the "Widow Fool" operated a ferry in 1819 at the forks of the Oostanaula and Hightower (Etowah) Rivers ?
Miss Eliza Frances Andrews, botanist, has had her habitat in Rome since 1911?
Major Ridge's ferry, opposite his home on the Oostanaula, was seized in 1835 by a white man named Garrett, who claimed Ridge would not run it or let any- body else run it?
Father Ryan, Indiana poet, once visited Rome to see about the Kane property in New York, and was the guest of Mrs. Mary Adkins, mother of Wm. H. Adkins?
Thos. A. Wheat, of Ridge Valley, loaded the first ten-inch Mortar cartridge fired at Fort Sumter in 1861?
The Santa Anna silver service, captured by Houston at the Battle of San Jacinto, was once the property of Henry Pope at Pope's Ferry?
Heavy guns furnished the Cherokee Artillery by the Nobles were captured by Gen. Sherman at Resaca?
Before Barney Swimmer and Terrapin, Cherokees, were hung on Broad Street for robbing and murdering Ezekiel Blatchford (or Braselton), of Hall County, a land seeker, in 1837, they were allowed to take a last swim under guard at the forks of the Etowah and the Oostanaula?
"Ga-la-gi-na" ("male deer" or "turkey") who later took the name of Elias Boudinot, president of Congress, was born in the present Floyd County in 1803?
"Stand Watie", Major Ridge's brother, who commanded a regiment of Indians in the Civil War as Confederates, lived near Rome?
Clyde Moore Shropshire, speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives, Nashville, ran for Governor of Tennessee in 1918?
Col. Benj. Cudworth Yancey served in the Legislatures of South Carolina, Alabama and Georgia?
Rome once had thirteen whisky saloons?
Jack King was the second of Capt. Jno. D. Williamson in the Calhoun-William- son duel, Dr. Henry Halsey Battey was his physician, and Capt. Jno. J. Seay and John G. Taylor were spectators?
William Smith owned a horse-race track between the forks of the rivers?
Col. Chas. Iverson Graves was in charge of the Confederate Naval School at Richmond, Va., in the Civil War, and in 1865 sent his wife and son, Chas. I. Graves, Jr., then a baby, in a covered wagon to Georgia from Richmond, in company with Mrs. Jefferson Davis?
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Prize chicken fights used to be held in cock-pits on Broad Street?
Terrell Speed, Oostanaula River fisherman and trapper, was known as "The Coonskin Statesman," and that a cigar was named after him?
Judge William H. Underwood, father of Congressman Jno. W. H. Underwood, represented the Indians in claims against the Government, and sleeps in an un- marked grave in the old Seventh Avenue Cemetery, Rome?
The organ played by George Whitefield, the great churchman, at Savannah, once was installed in St. Peter's Episcopal Church?
Fourteen thousand Cherokees, headed by John Ross and others, marched afoot 600 miles to "The Arkansaw" in 1838 and 1839, and 4,500 of them died of disease or exposure, or were slain by United States troops, and the pilgrimage was known as "The Trail of Tears"?
Cave Spring, on Little Cedar Creek, was incorporated with a "growth radius" of 14 mile and is an older town than Rome, and Rome is older than Atlanta?
The Bowies of Rome were descended from Gen. Bowie, of Alamo and "Bowie knife" fame?
Col. Nicholas James Bayard, Roman, was descended from Chevalier Bayard, the great Frenchman?
The Cherokees used to play a game similar to football?
Some historians claim that Ferdinand DeSoto, Spanish cavalier, spent nearly 30 days on the site of the present Rome in 1540?
Part of the Fourth Ward of Rome has always been called "DeSoto"?
The region north of the Chattahoochee River, some 25 counties, was called "Cherokee Georgia" before the Civil War?
John Ross, principal chief of the Cherokees, lived several years in DeSoto and started his letters "Head of Coosa"?
Major Ridge, leader of the Treaty Party of the Indians, lived from 1794 to 1837, 43 years, up the Oostanaula River two miles from Rome?
The Cherokees were the most intelligent nation of Indians on the North Amer- ican continent?
Sequoyah, who invented the Cherokee alphabet, lived in the adjoining county of Chattooga, near Alpine?
Gen. John Floyd, of Fairfield Plantation, Camden County, made possible the peaceful settlement of Floyd County by dispersing Indian bands in Alabama? Also that Floyd County was named for him in 1832 when "Cherokee Georgia" was broken up into counties?
The county seat of Floyd County for about two years was Livingston, down the Coosa River?
Rome was founded in 1834 by Zachariah B. Hargrove, Philip W. Hemphill and Daniel R. Mitchell, lawyers, and William Smith, planter?
Names were drawn from a hat, and one put in by Col. Mitchell-Rome-was chosen ?
Three of the four founders of Rome lie buried in Myrtle Hill?
William Smith built Rome's first steamboat, the William Smith?
Rome once depended upon her steamboat trade for her life?
Rome came near being placed on the main line of the W. & A. Railroad between Chattanooga and Atlanta?
Rome sent four men to Congress before the Civil War?
Rome has sent two men to Congress since the Civil War?
Floyd and several adjoining counties have never furnished a Governor?
Gen. Beauregard said after the First Battle of Manassas, "I lift my hat to the Eighth Georgia Regiment! (Rome companies). History will never forget you!"?
Gen. Forrest, with 410 Confederates, Sunday, May 3, 1863, captured 1,466 Union soldiers, marched them into Rome and saved it from destruction?
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