Cedartown’s Changing Landscape: Historic Development, Local Traditions, and Visitor Highlights
Cedartown has a way of revealing itself slowly. On first pass, it can look like one more small Georgia city with a familiar courthouse square, a few main streets, and neighborhoods that still carry the shape of earlier decades. Spend a little time there, though, and the layers begin to show. The town’s landscape is not frozen in the past, nor has it shed its older character in the rush to modernize. Instead, Cedartown has grown by accretion, with each era leaving something
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Cedartown has a way of revealing itself slowly. On first pass, it can look like one more small Georgia city with a familiar courthouse square, a few main streets, and neighborhoods that still carry the shape of earlier decades. Spend a little time there, though, and the layers begin to show. The town’s landscape is not frozen in the past, nor has it shed its older character in the rush to modernize. Instead, Cedartown has grown by accretion, with each era leaving something
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