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Adairsville, GA - History


We would like to provide the residents of  Adairsville  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Adairsville Home page. The Adairsville Home page provides as much information as possible on Adairsville. Knowing Adairsville’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Adairsville’s Home page, you will also find Adairsville’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Adairsville has a population of 4926. 49.9% of Adairsville’s inhabitants are Male, and 50.1 are female. 52.7% of Adairsville is married and 64.9% own their own home. The Average Home price is $149,922, and the average rent is $943. Household median income in Adairsville is $61,764, and the individual median income is $28,068. Adairsville’s Ethnic is the following: White(61.3%), Other(25.7%), Black(11.6%), Hispanic(3.9%), Multiple(1.3%).


Adairsville used to be a small Cherokee village named after Chief Walter (John) S. Adair, a Scottish settler who married a Cherokee Indian woman before the removal of the Cherokee in 1838. It was part of the Cherokee territory along with Calhoun and including New Echota. After the removal of the Cherokees, the village became part of Georgia, and the residents kept the name Adairsville.


One of the town's developers was William Watts, who had a railroad business interest in the town. He had brought the Western and Atlantic Railroad from Atlanta (still in use). He deeded land to the railroad and surveyed business lots including hotels, mills, and blacksmith shops around town. Watts's plan was successful and brought the town the nickname "Granary of the State"; it was incorporated in 1854.


He lived in Adairsville in a home built on the foundation of an Indian cabin, on a hill overlooking the town. During the Civil War, Adairsville was involved on the side of the Confederate States of America in 1861 against the Union. On April 12, 1862, the steam locomotive The General was pursued from Atlanta and passed through Adairsville as its people the Great Locomotive Chase.


After that, Adairians set a three-day street festival in remembrance of the Chase. The Civil War came to the town in full force on May 17, 1864, when the Confederate army failed to defeat Sherman and his Union army during the Atlanta Campaign in the Battle of Adairsville. After the Civil War ended in 1865, Adairsville rebuilt and became a center of the carpet and textile industries, and of farm and transportation services, including its famous railroad.


Historic buildings still intact in the town include the original train depot, which was involved in the Great Locomotive Chase. Adairsville is well known for Barnsley Gardens. Now a golf resort, Barnsley Gardens is southwest of the city center. The home was built by Sir Godfrey Barnsley of Derbyshire, England, in the late 1840s for his wife, Julia.


She died before the house could be completed, but it is said that her ghost appeared to Sir Godfrey, telling him to complete the work. It was brought about by the visions of Andrew Jackson Downing, the architect who designed the grounds of the U.S. Capitol and White House. The ruins of the great main house remain.


Almost lost to time and the elements, the land, including all of the ruins, was bought in 1988 by Prince Hubertus Fugger, who restored the gardens and renovated the grounds into an upscale golf resort. On January 30, 2013, at approximately 11:30 am, the city was struck by a violent high-end EF3 tornado, leaving one dead, dozens injured, and hundreds of businesses and residences destroyed.


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