About Rome, Georgia

Rome is the county seat and largest city of Floyd County, with 37,713 people at the 2020 census. It grew where the Etowah and Oostanaula rivers meet to form the Coosa, on land held first by the Creek and later by the Cherokee. Cherokee leaders Major Ridge and John Ross both lived and farmed cotton here until the Cherokee were forced west on the Trail of Tears in 1838, and Ridge's home survives as the Chieftains Museum.

Five founders, most of them veterans of the War of 1812, started the town in 1834. They drew names at Alhambra, and Col. Daniel R. Mitchell's choice won because the place sat on seven hills between rivers, like the Rome in Italy. The legislature chartered the city in 1835, and the county seat moved here from Livingston. The first steamboat came up the Coosa in 1836 to carry cotton toward New Orleans, an 18-mile rail spur reached Kingston in 1849, and by 1860 Rome had 4,010 people.

  • Forrest saves the town, 1863In April 1863 Union Colonel Abel Streight led a raid on mules from near Cedar Bluff, Alabama, aiming for Rome. Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest fooled him into giving up a few miles from the city. Shaken, the city council spent $3,000 on three forts, named Attaway, Norton and Stovall for local men killed in the war, and they were ready by October 1863.
  • Sherman's army in 1864Rome's iron works had made cannons for the Confederacy, so the town was a prize. Union General Jefferson C. Davis captured it in May 1864, and his troops held it for months while Sherman himself stayed briefly. On November 11, 1864, as they marched off to the sea, they destroyed the forts, the iron works and the rail line to Kingston.
  • A water tank turned clock towerIn 1871 the city built a water tank on Neely Hill, above downtown. It was later made into the Rome Clock Tower, which can be seen from much of the city and appears on the city's crest, so locals call the spot Clock Tower Hill.
  • A steamboat on Broad StreetThe flood of 1886 put so much water in the streets that a steamboat made its way along Broad Street. Five years later, in 1891, the state legislature acted on advice from the Army Corps of Engineers and amended Rome's charter, creating a commission responsible for building levees along the rivers.
  • A wolf statue from Italy, 1929In the late 1920s an American company and an Italian company built a rayon plant here together. Italy honored the project and the city in 1929, when Benito Mussolini sent Rome a copy of the famous wolf statue, with the twins Romulus and Remus nursing, the emblem of the first Rome's founding legend.

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Names on the Rome map

Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.

Places and landmarks34

  • Chulio Hills
  • Atlanta Junction
  • Atteiram Heights
  • Berkshire Estates
  • Berryhill
  • Brookwood
  • Castle Cove
  • Cherokee Acres
  • DeSoto Homes
  • Fair Oaks
  • Fieldwood
  • Gaither Park
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  • Garden Lakes
  • Hidden Valley
  • Horseleg Estates
  • Huffaker
  • John Graham Homes
  • Maplewood
  • Maplewood Park
  • Maplewood Square
  • Merry Acres
  • Mount Berry
  • New Rome
  • North Hills
  • North Rome
  • Riverside Park
  • Rollingwood
  • Saddle Mountain
  • Summerville Park
  • Sunset Acres
  • West Rome
  • Westwood
  • Williamsburg Estates
  • Woodpin Estates

Streets and roads183

  • Shorter Avenue
  • Turner McCall Boulevard
  • East Second Avenue
  • Second Avenue
  • North Rome Con
  • Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard
  • Veterans Memorial Parkway Northeast
  • North Broad Street
  • State Loop 1
  • Cedartown Highway
  • Cartersville Highway Southeast
  • Redmond Circle
  • East Rome Bypass
  • Martha Berry Highway
  • North Broad
  • Chateau Drive Southeast
  • Broad Street
  • South Broad Street
  • Technology Parkway
  • Garden Lakes Parkway Northwest
  • Riverside Parkway Northeast
  • Cave Spring Road Southwest
  • Stonebridge Drive
  • John Davenport Drive
  • Maple Street
  • Saddle Mountain Road
  • Charlton Street
  • Cedar Avenue Southwest
  • Branham Avenue
  • East Twelfth Street
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  • Lavender Drive
  • Blacks Bluff Road Southwest
  • East Eleventh Street
  • CCC Road Northwest
  • North Division Street
  • Ross Street Northeast
  • Woodbine Avenue
  • Vaughn Road
  • North Fifth Avenue
  • Rolling Oaks Drive
  • East Ninth Street
  • Valley Brook Drive
  • East Third Street
  • Flannery Street
  • North Elm Street
  • Mathis Drive
  • Addington Drive
  • Trove Drive Northwest
  • Decatur Street
  • Leafmore Road
  • Nixon Avenue
  • Roy Street
  • Tolbert Street
  • Watson Street
  • Reece Street
  • Sagewood Drive
  • Rudy Street
  • Myrtle Street
  • Old Airport Road
  • Hemlock Street
  • CCC Road
  • Lyons Drive
  • Desoto Avenue
  • Rogers Drive
  • Robin Street
  • Conn Street
  • Reed Street
  • Cheney Street
  • Cherry Street
  • Kirton Street
  • High Street
  • Dodd Street
  • Dean Avenue
  • Spires Way Northwest
  • Calhoun Avenue Northeast
  • Horseleg Creek Road Southwest
  • Huffaker Road Northwest
  • Redmond Road
  • Hampton Boulevard Southeast
  • Billy Pyle Road Southwest
  • Old Lindale Road
  • Parrish Drive Southeast
  • Brookwood Avenue
  • Darlington Drive Southwest
  • East Eighth Street
  • Williamson Street Southwest
  • Gibbons Street
  • George Griffin Junior Drive
  • Three Mile Road Northeast
  • Saddle Trail
  • Berry Forest Drive
  • Crane Street
  • Benton Drive Northwest
  • Legend Cv Northwest
  • Wilson Avenue
  • Pleasant Valley Road
  • Pine Bower Drive
  • East Main Street
  • Tamassee Lane
  • Bent Creek Drive
  • Fox Croft Road
  • East Fourth Street
  • Pheasant Run
  • West Brook Drive
  • Westside Industrial Boulevard
  • Oakwood Street
  • Walnut Avenue
  • East Seventh Street
  • Harper Avenue
  • Rolling Pines Road
  • South Hanks Street
  • Fortune Street
  • Walton Creek Drive
  • South Sycamore Street
  • Beaumont Street
  • Amelia Lane
  • Battey Circle
  • Pine Street
  • Riverview Road
  • Wilma Drive
  • Marshall Lane
  • Sheridan Drive
  • Couper Street
  • Silver Avenue
  • Norcross Way
  • West Third Street
  • Bale Street
  • West 13th Street
  • Ridge Drive
  • Carter Avenue
  • Asbury Drive
  • Wells Drive
  • Dean Street
  • Berry Street
  • Kyle Street
  • Ivey Street
  • Dodd Boulevard Southeast
  • Vinings Drive
  • Elliott Drive Northwest
  • Armuchee Con
  • West First Street
  • Wolf Drive Northeast
  • East Tenth Street
  • Church Street
  • Wilkerson Road Southwest
  • Cooper Drive
  • John Maddox Drive
  • Northwood Drive
  • Williamsburg Drive Northwest
  • Broadus Road Northeast
  • Woods Road Northwest
  • Mountain Crest Drive
  • Rockridge Drive
  • Virginia Circle
  • River Avenue
  • Glenrise Terrace
  • Lee Avenue
  • Widgeon Way
  • Etowah Terrace
  • Wallace Street
  • Clark Drive
  • Bush Arbor Place
  • Silver Street
  • Nelson Boulevard Northwest
  • East 20th Street
  • Shoreline Drive Northwest
  • Pine Valley Road
  • Riverbend Drive
  • Turnbull Drive
  • Fieldwood Road
  • East 17th Street
  • East 15th Street
  • Marable Way
  • South Ivy Ridge Road
  • Sanders Drive
  • Savannah Place
  • Greenwood Avenue
  • Clover Street
  • Overhill Road
  • Hospital Circle
  • Lookout Avenue
  • Holmes Avenue
  • Line Street

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