Identifier: advantagesofgeor00ge (find matches)
Title: Advantages of Georgia for those desiring homes in a genial climate. 1906-7
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Georgia. Dept. of Agriculture Derry, Joseph Tyrone, 1841- Wright, R. F. (Robert F.)
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Publisher: Atlanta, Ga., Franklin-Turner co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ored.Not far from the foot of the double-peaked Kennesaw Mountain, it has pure water, afine climate, good schools, is well supplied with churches, has water-works, a telephonesystem, is lighted by electricity, has the largest chair factory and largest paper mill inthe State, four marble yards, a large plant for furnishing marble, a canning factory, acreamery and other industries. In the beautiful national cemetery are buried 10,000Federal soldiers. .\t Kennesaw Mountain was fought one of the great battles of theAtlanta campaign of 1864. In the northeastern part of Cobb county the splendid water power of the Chatta-hoochee has built up Roswell, a growing manufacturing town, with two large cottonfactories and a woolen mill. At the town of Powder Springs are mineral waters liighlv impregnated with sul-phur and magnesia. Acworth, like Marietta, on the Western and Atlantic Railroad, is in the midst of afine agricultural country, and has a large flouring mill, a chair factory and variety of
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4o Georgias Resources and Advantages. works for turning out mantels and wheelbarrows, is lighted by elcctricit)- and has water-works and telephone connections. The surrounding country is also rich in min-erals. Cobb county has some lands which readily yield 50 bushels of cornand 40 of wheat to the acre, and also makes good yields of cotton of a superior quality.It is noted also for fine commercial peach orchards, and raises in profusion all kindsof fruits, berries and vegetables. The large poultry farm, near Smyrna, is one of thegreat enterprises of the county. The price of lands in this country vary from $15 to $100an acre. Dalton, in Whitfield couniy, comes closest to Marietta in size, having a populationof 4,315, of whom 3,356 are white and 959 colored. Like Rome and Marietta, it iswell supplied with churches and schools, has gas, electric light and telephone systemand water-works, large cotton and flouring mills, canneries and fiourshing commercialhouses. There is also here a coll

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