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At- -Glance
                                                           A
        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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