Carrollton, Georgia Carrollton, Georgia Carrollton City Hall Carrollton City Hall Location in Carroll County and the state of Georgia Location in Carroll County and the state of Georgia Carrollton is a town/city located in Georgia, United States.
As of the 2010 census, the town/city had a populace of 24,388. The town/city is the governmental center of county of Carroll County. Historically, Carrollton has been a commercial center for Carroll County and many other counties in Georgia and Alabama.
6.1 Carroll County School District 6.2 Carrollton City School District Carrollton is positioned near the center of Carroll County at 33 34 51 N 85 4 36 W (33.580912, -85.076704). The Little Tallapoosa River flows through the northwestern part of the city.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Carrollton has a total region of 22.8 square miles (59.1 km2) (22.3 square miles (57.7 km2) is territory and 0.54 square miles (1.4 km2), or 2.37%, is water). Carroll County, of which Carrollton is the county seat, was chartered in 1826, and was governed at the time by the Carroll Inferior Court, which consisted of five propel justices.
The initial intention was to call the new governmental center of county "Troupville", with respect to former governor George Troup, but Troup was not prominent with the state government of the time, so the Georgia General Assembly incorporated the town as Carrollton, in December 1829.
The name was with respect to Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the last living signer of the Declaration of Independence. Although it was the governmental center of county and the chief market town for most of Carroll County, transit of both goods and passengers was difficult until the coming of the barns in 1874, so Carrollton remained largely a frontier town until well after the Civil War. The barns also encouraged the expansion of the fledgling industrialized ventures, especially in the textile industry, in and around Carrollton.
In 1906, Carrollton was chosen as the site of the Fourth District Agricultural and Mechanical School, which became West Georgia College in 1934, and is now an 11,000-student university, the University of West Georgia.
Kennedy visited Carrollton for the dedication of Kennedy Chapel on the college campus. Panoramic of Carrollton's Adamson Square c.
Carrollton remained an agricultural and textile manufacturing center throughout the first half of the 20th century, but as the small-town production of cotton declined and the populace became more urban, other industries began to take on a greater prominence. Most notable is the Southwire Company.
Carrollton also remains an meaningful market town, with a wide range of nationwide retail chains and restaurants, serving Carroll County and the encircling region.
Carrollton featured in the 1983 TV movie Murder in Coweta County, although the Carrollton scenes were not actually filmed there.
Other films shot in the Carrollton region include Conjurer with John Schneider, The Way Home with Dean Cain, and Between Love and a Hard Place with Bern Nadette Stanis.
The town/city thriving news media consideration amidst allegations of censorship in September 2011 when the mayor overruled the board of the city-owned Carrollton Cultural Arts Center in order to ban as "very offensive" the live stage musical The Rocky Horror Show that had been scheduled for a run just before Halloween.
News reports attributed the mayor's decision to his being shown by the town/city manager a video of the rehearsal posted by a cast member to a personal Facebook page. In February 2012, three months later than originally planned, the show was produced and privately funded without town/city cash at the Townsend Center for the Performing Arts at the University of West Georgia, also in Carrollton. The Virginia-based anti-censorship Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression gave one of its nationwide 2012 "Muzzle" awards to the mayor "for appointing himself the arbiter of cultural taste for an entire town, and canceling a pre-approved manufacturing of The Rocky Horror Show at a city-owned theater." An EF3 tornado hit an region about 10 miles (16 km) west of Carrollton on February 26, 2008.
These storms track northward through Alabama as tropical storms, and some have brought high winds, heavy rainfall, and the occasional tornado to the Carrollton area, resulting in momentous property damage.
The Carrollton region was hit with tropical storm force winds killing one person when a tree came down into a mobile home.
For outside recreation, a several parks are positioned in Carrollton such as Knox Park and Castle Playground. John Tanner State Park, which is 6 miles (10 km) west of the city, has a lake with a beach and swimming area, walking or running track, and camp grounds. There is also the Green Belt that can be used for recreational purposes.
Carrollton has a downtown region named Adamson Square after Congressman William Charles Adamson. Local restaurants include the Corner Cafe, The Alley Cat, Plates on the Square (the upstairs bar is known as Uncorked at Plates), Max & Henry's and Gallery Row Coffee Shop; all are inside walking distance of one another.
Of these, The Alley Cat and Uncorked at Plates incessantly schedule bands and other affairs. Adamson Square is the host to many of Carrollton's affairs, such as the annual Mayfest which takes place in the first week of May. Another shop positioned on Adamson Square is Horton's Books & Gifts, certified as the earliest bookstore in Georgia by the American Booksellers Association.
Founded in 1892, it is Carrollton and Carroll County's earliest company and is still in its initial location.
Right off the Square is the Carrollton Cultural Arts Center, the site of Mecca Fest, an arts and crafts festival held in October. Located in downtown Carrollton on Adamson Square is The Irish Bred Pub.
One block south of the Square is the Southeastern Quilt & Textile Museum which opened in September, 2012. Exhibits at the exhibition have featured traditional and intact quilts by both solo artists and various county-wide guilds, and a partnership with the Center for Public History at the University of West Georgia has enabled the exhibition to exhibit highlights of the history of the small-town textile industry.
Carrollton has a strong theological element, with about 100 places of worship. Carrollton is the locale of the Sacred Harp Publishing Company, a non-profit organization supporting Sacred Harp singing, which prints the most widely used version of the Sacred Harp songbook. Carrollton is the place of birth of Baptist pastor Jerry Vines.
The Carroll County School District provides education to pre-school through undertaking twelve and consists of eleven elementary schools, six middle schools, and seven high schools. The precinct has 805 full-time teachers and over 13,403 students. Carrollton City School District The Carrollton City School District serves grades pre-school through twelve and consists of one elementary school, two middle schools, a high school, and an alternative school. The precinct has 208 full-time teachers and over 3,682 students. "The City of Carrollton, Georgia".
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"Carrollton Rocky Horror Show shut down, deemed too risque".
The controversial comedy-musical was originally scheduled for a Carroll County Community Theater Halloween manufacturing at the Carrollton Cultural Arts Center.
But Carrollton Mayor Wayne Garner pulled the plug on the play last September, expressing concern about the R-rated content being performed in a city-owned facility.
"Citing Rocky Horror, center gives Muzzle award to mayor".
Carrollton Mayor Wayne Garner joined Florida's governor and the U.S.
Garner, who last fall determined the musical The Rocky Horror Show to be inappropriate for a town/city facility, was titled a recipient of a Muzzle award by the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression.
Mayor Wayne Garner determined, absent due process and before to any actual expression, that The Rocky Horror Show should not and therefore, would not be seen at the Carrollton Community Arts Center, a enhance forum established by the town/city to furnish all of its inhabitants with a broad array of cultural programs expressing a range of viewpoints.
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