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Etowah Indian Mounds, Cartersville
railroad route. Or sail the skies on the
world’s largest zip line canopy course at
Historic Banning Mills in Whitesburg.
Pigeon Mountain in LaFayette boasts NOR
wonders galore. Find one of the deepest T
caves in the world – Ellison Cave – plus H
horseback riding trails, hiking, and primitive W
camping. One of the most intriguing places E
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on the mountain is an easy one-mile hike in T G
the woods to the mysterious “Rock Town,”
a collection of boulders and monoliths E
that truly resemble a town and that have
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provided shelter to wildlife and Native GI
Americans alike.
Honor and reflect on Native American A MO
contributions to Northwest Georgia U
culture at Cartersville’s Etowah Indian N
Mounds, a ceremonial center more than a T A
millennium past; at Calhoun’s New Echota I
Historic Site, once the capital of the entire NS
Cherokee Nation; and at Chatsworth’s Chief
Vann House Historic Site.

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