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PAULDING COUNTY
Throughout most of its early history, Paulding
County was a remote destination whose
residents farmed, operated grist and saw mills, COST OF
created pottery, and tanned hides.
POPULATION OF : 159,445 RAIN: 52 in. per year LIVING
PAULDING COUNTY Paulding County enjoys a
moderate cost of living –
SNOW: 2 in. per year approximately 6.2% less than
BO U T DALLAS SUNSHINE: 217 days per year new home in Paulding County
the national average. The
estimated median cost of a
13,237
AVERAGE HIGH TEMPERATURE: 89 degrees
is $151,900.
HIRAM AVERAGE LOW TEMPERATURE: 30 degrees Source: Sperling’s Best Places 2018
770, 678 }
PAULDING COUNTY LABOR FORCE
82,244
P A UL DI NG 3,984 UNEMPLOYMENT RATE 4.1% { AREA CODES
BRASWELL Sources: Sperling’s Best Places 2018, &
UNINCORPORATED 383 Georgia Department of Labor Paulding County Profile 2017
Early Years Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2017 1977
PAULDING COUNTY PAULDING
from Huntsville, 2008
1775 1903 Southern Airways Construction is
Flight 242 departs
“Ole 88” Engine
Alabama traveling
Paulding, plays 1832 1838 1864 345 jumps the to Atlanta and completed on the
Revolutionary
tracks and tears
patriot, John The last of the 1852 down part of the encounters heavy Silver Comet Trail,
a 60+ mile, rail-
thunderstorms.
a key role in The Georgia 1864 May 28 – Hardee’s 1882 1895 Pumpkinvine The plane crashes to-trail initiative
Dallas is created
capturing British Legislature forms Cherokee are as the new county 1864 Corps probes the Creek Trestle. near the New Hope stretching from
th
spy Major John the state’s 87 forced to leave their May 27 – Generals Johnston and Howard meet for the devastating Union defensive The 750-feet The town of The trestle is Community. A Cobb County,
Andre. As a county, Paulding, ancestral home, seat, named for May 26 – General battle at Pickett’s Mill. After a five-hour march through rugged line, prompting 1892 Braswell Tunnel Braswell is rebuilt after the monument today though Paulding
tribute to his act with the county which included George Mifflin William T. Sherman’s terrain, 10,000 Confederate troops entrench at the Benjamin and the Battle of Dallas. 1891 is built and the chartered and accident, and memorializes and Polk counties,
of heroism, towns seat at Van Wert, Paulding County Dallas, Vice troops and the Malachi Pickett family farm and grist mill, waiting for the Union The Confederates The red-brick advent of the named in honor restored in 1999 the 64 people and connecting
and counties across now part of lands, during the President under Confederate Army assault. Heavy fighting continues into the night. Daybreak finds are eventually The rural railroad Queen Anne-style Southern Railroad of Henry Braswell, to serve as part killed. Both flight with the Chief
the nation bear neighboring infamous “Trail U.S. President clash at New Hope the Confederates still in possession of the field. Arguably the worst repulsed, suffering town of Hiram Paulding County attracts people to a prominent of the Silver attendants and 21 Ladiga Trail
Paulding’s name. Polk County. of Tears.” James K. Polk. Church near Dallas. Union defeat of the Atlanta Campaign. high casualties. is established. Courthouse is built. Paulding County. citizen of the area. Comet Trail. passengers survive. in Alabama.
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