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Powder Springs
Incorporated in 1838, Powder Springs was originally called
Springsville. Early settlers to the area came in the hopes of finding
gold, but found little in the surrounding mountains. The name
was changed in 1859 to Powder Springs after the seven springs
located throughout the city that are enriched with minerals,
turning the sand and soil black like gunpowder.
Smyrna
The original Smyrna was a church founded by the apostle Paul
located in what is now Turkey.
Area churches began to use the Biblical term to refer to their
new surroundings, and the Methodists’ gathering place became
known as the Smyrna Camp Ground.
Smyrna is also known as “the Jonquil City” after the yellow
flowers that bloom there in the spring. According to the Smyrna
Historical Society, the first jonquils were brought to Smyrna by
Samuel Taylor in 1883.
Unincorporated areas:
Cumberland
The unincorporated area now known as Cumberland was
once best known as the home of Camp Ben Adams, a Boy Scout
reservation.
The development of Cumberland Mall in 1973, which was at the
time Georgia’s largest enclosed regional mall, sparked the area’s
change into an economic powerhouse.
East Cobb
East Cobb is an affluent unincorporated suburb located in the
eastern part of Cobb County. Many of its locations were peopled
by settlers since the county’s early incorporation.
Mount Bethel United Methodist Church got its start in 1840 as
Bethel Methodist Episcopalian Church.
Johnson Ferry, which is now a major road in the area, was
originally a ferry that took people from Atlanta across the
Chattahoochee.
Lake Allatoona
This U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reservoir on the Etowah
River has a fun name to say, but one whose origins are unclear.
It shares its name with the Allatoona Mountains, the Allatoona
pass through the mountains and the former city of Allatoona,
which was destroyed when the lake was created.
Historian Richard Thornton said Allatoona is often thought to
come from a Cherokee word, but he said there is no proof of this.
“The origin of the word, Allatoona, has remained a mystery for
two centuries,” Thornton writes on his blog, “People of one Fire.”
“Neither the Creek nor the Cherokee Peoples claim the word as
theirs, although local white historians typically describe the word
Allatoona as ‘a Cherokee word of unknown meaning.’ For 14
years, I have tried to translate the word, using the mathematics of
statistics applied to Muskogee, Miccosukee (Itsate Creek), Panoan,
Itza Maya, Cherokee and Arawak dictionaries, but to no avail.”
Thornton posits the name may come from an archaic
European language and mean “All the low mountains” or “All the
mountaintop/hilltop fortified towns.”
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