Carrollton, Georgia

Past Projects

CCHS is Now on the World Wide Web beginning in 2008  The CCHS has now created a new website about everything historic in Carroll County. It is more than just a site about the CCHS, it includes historical information, news and and  photographs on what we hope makes Carroll County so great. You can now visit our society and its headquarters, get involved in efforts to help restore the Historic Carrollton Depot, or take a photographic tour of our many towns and historic sites.

New Porches for an Old Home - Spring of 2008  During the Summer of 2007 our Society Headquarters, Curtis-Marlow-Perry House  had to have some major repairs done to the exterior woodwork of the house. Both the front and back porches have been totally replaced and some of the clapboard was replaced.The City of Carrollton has helped to get the house painted inside and out with gutters installed outside to prevent water damage in preparation for the Georgia Garden Tour

2008 Georgia Historic House and Garden Pilgrimage   The Curtis Heritage Gardens located behind our headquarters has looked really great this year and has been in full bloom even though most of Georgia has had drought and watering  restrictions in place. In June of 2008, the Garden Clubs of Georgia will be coming to Carrollton for a tour of historic gardens including our own Curtis Gardens on June 6-8. For more information call Keep Carroll Beautiful at 678-890-2361 or email keepcarrollbeautiful@carroll-ga.org

CARROLL COUNTY'S OLDEST CITIZEN TURNS 110 Miss Nell Meadows, Carroll County's oldest citizen will celebrate her 110th Birthday, February 17, 2009. Miss Meadows was born February 17, 1899, in Carrollton where she still lives in the house her father built on Maple Street.  Miss Meadows is the oldest known living graduate of the University of Georgia where she received her bachelor's degree in 1939 and prior to that a certificate from the State Normal School in Athens in 1924.  *For an audio slideshow of Nell Meadows, go to:  www.uga.edu/gm  "I always enjoyed teaching" Miss Meadows says, "That's all I wanted to do, teach. Never having married she taught in Fayetteville, Tallapoosa, and Winder elementary school before moving back home to Carrollton to care for her ailing mother more than 50 years ago. She took a job writing for the local newspaper the Carroll County Times, prior taking a job as a 3rd grade teacher at Maple Street, in Carrollton just up the hill from her home.     Miss Meadows still lives in the house were she was born and raised, and remembers when it had no running water or electricity. one of her fondest memories is the first telephone which hung on the wall. To make a call, you rang up the operator who connected you to your party line. It was her father, an express agent who had the first telegraph line run from his business to the railroad depot in Carrollton.  Though she has no close kin left, former student sometimes stop by to visit and she surprises them by showing them the roll books, which she has kept from every class she taught. She caretaker Sherry Bryce say "She is still a teacher too." "I'll write something and she'll say, 'That's not right.'"   What makes Miss Meadows 110th birthday especially significant is that she is now illegible to participate in the New England Centenarian Study (NECS) begun in 1995 and has since grown to be the largest biopsychosocial and genetic study of centenarians and their families in the world. With funding from the National Institute on Aging, the goal of the NECS has been to understand the determinants of exceptional longevity.  For Miss Nell Meadows 110th Birthday the City of Carrollton is proclaiming February 17, 2009, Nell Meadows Day and will also receive big Happy Birthday greeting from Willard Scott on the Today's Show. Proclamation from numerous political leaders with the locale, state and national level. *Miss Nell Meadows passed away shortly before her 111th Birthday and a small collection of her personal belongs have been donated to the CCHS Archives.