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Rome, Georgia
| June 4, 1540 |
DeSoto enters Chiaha (present-day Rome, Georgia)
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Rome, Georgia |
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Hernando deSoto |
| October 17, 1793 |
In the last major battle of the Chickamauga Wars in Georgia, John Sevier defeats Kingfisher in the Battle of Hightower on the site of Myrtle Hill Cemetery in Rome. |
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Rome, Georgia |
| January 4, 1830 |
With a force of some 30 Cherokee and the permission of federal government, Major Ridge evicts whites who have illegally settled Cherokee land along the Georgia-Alabama border about 30 miles southwest of present-day Rome, Georgia. The act infuriates Georgia politicians
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Rome, Georgia |
| December 20, 1834 |
Rome, Georgia is created by the Georgia legislature
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Rome, Georgia |
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Floyd County, Georgia |
| November 9, 1864 |
General William Tecumseh Sherman issues the first orders (Special Orders No. 120), from Kingston, Georgia (Bartow County) directly related to his "March to the Sea." Over the next few days the city of Rome will be destroyed and track from Atlanta to Chattanooga will be torn up, some transported to Tennessee for later use, some twisted into Sherman's hairpins or Sherman's neckties and left by the side of the railroad.
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Civil War - 1864 |
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William Tecumseh Sherman |
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March to the Sea |
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Rome, Georgia |
| October 7, 1872 |
Clockworks arrive in Rome, Georgia for the water tower on Neely Hill. The 9' diameter clock face will become a source of pride for the city's inhabitants. (more on Rome's Clock Tower)
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Rome, Georgia |
| December 6, 1886 |
Rome, Georgia is covered with more than 2 feet of snow
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Rome, Georgia |
| May 16, 1901 |
The Chattanooga, Rome and Southern Railroad is acquired by the Central of Georgia Railroad
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Rome, Georgia |
| December 5, 1910 |
Confederate General Alfred Cumming died, Rome, Georgia
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Rome, Georgia |
| May 15, 1964 |
After passing a bad check in a Rome, Georgia store, Sammie Earl Ammons is chased by local authorities into Cherokee County, Alabama, where he is arrested. He had been one of the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted
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Rome, Georgia |
| September 11, 1982 |
The home of Ken Dooley, who worked at Rome's Youth Development Center, is raked with gunfire. The following day Linda Adair's home, also an employee at the YDC, is firebombed
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Judy Neelley - A woman on death row
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Rome, Georgia |
| September 25, 1982 |
Lisa Ann Millican, part of a girls group from the Ethel Harpst Home in Cedartown, Georgia, disappeared while on a trip to the Riverbend Mall in Rome. Her body would be recovered a few days later in Little River Canyon, Fort Payne, Alabama
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Judy Neelley - A woman on death row
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Rome, Georgia |
| August 8, 1995 |
First Union acquires Home Federal Savings Bank, Rome
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Wachovia and First Union Banks
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Rome, Georgia |
| September 27, 2002 |
General release date for Sweet Home Alabama, starring Reese Witherspoon. Portions of the film were shot in Berry College (Rome), Atlanta, Conyers, Crawfordville, Peachtree City and Starr's Mill, Georgia.
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Movies filmed in Georgia
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Rome, Georgia |
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