Carrollton, Georgia

Welcome to the History

of Carroll County, Georgia

Since 2000, Carroll County, Georgia has been hard at work preserving its past while growing along with the future. Carroll County has become an example of the way a county can work to protect its rural and agricultural heritage while allowing for smart grow. Farmland Preservation has been become a key to the success of Carroll County. While most of the counties in the metropolitan Atlanta area have fallen victim to the grow that has come Georgia and the Southeastern United States, Carroll County has done a great job of preserving it many small farms while growing along with the City of Atlanta.  Carroll County by the way has more small farms than any other county in Georgia.  Carroll County is full of history and proud of having worked to preserve many of these sites, and a number of these sites have just recently been preserved are in the works of being preserved.

The towns of Carrollton, Villa Rica and Bowdon have been placed on the National Register of Historic Places. The county is working to preserve three new parks dedicated to history and greenspace preservation and add an Indian interpretive center at McIntosh Reserve. Historic Banning Mills near Whitesburg has seen significant preservation of the historic mill community. The new Pine Mountain Gold Museum in Villa Rica is now home to Georgia Forgotten Gold Rush. Carrollton has been chosen for the future home of the Southeastern Quilt and Textile Museum Historic Carrollton Depot is currently being restored. The  Bowdon Area Historical preserved the old Bowdon Methodist Protestant Church the last remaining structure from the old Bowdon College campus. Roopville Archives and Historical Society has restored the Old Roop House home to its town founder J. K. Roop. There is a new scene quilt trail.