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WHITESBURG
Population 610 Home of the Longest & Largest Zipline Canopy Whitesburg Recreation Park has a gymnasium/community center, a
Tour in the World at Historic Banning Mills playground, a waterpark, ball fields and walking trails.
4 Established 1860
4 Incorporated 1874 The Place to Race!
4 Named for railroad official, Andrew J. White West Georgia Speedway, located in
Whitesburg, is home to one of the fastest
4 First school was built in 1873,
3/8-mile dirt-surfaced oval racetracks. Banning Mills Zip Line
which became Hutchenson College
4 Local commercial shopping district McIntosh Reserve Park is a passive recreation area maintained Famous Son: Chief William McIntosh
4 “A little city with a big heart” by Carroll County and less than a 10-minute drive from the city of 4 Father was Scottish
4 Public water system Whitesburg. With frontage on the Chattahoochee River, it sits on 4 Mother was Creek Indian
4 Full-service police protection 527 acres and offers primitive camping, pavilions, a splash water 4 Owned a large plot of land on the Chattahoochee
4 Outstanding recreation department park and trails for hikers and equestrian riders. River, which is now southeast Carroll County
4 Murdered by a group of his own people after
signing the Treaty of Indian Springs in 1825
4 His property became known as McIntosh Reserve
Second Weekend in October
The annual arts and crafts festival sponsored
by Whitesburg has some 100 exhibits and
attracts approximately 5,000 visitors.
McIntosh Reserve Park
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