since 1851, when the county was created. Cherokee and Creek (people)Creek Native Americans in the United StatesNative Americans first inhabited the area known as Cedar Valley, GeorgiaCedar Valley. White settlers moved in and established a trading post along Cedar Creek in the 1830s. The most famous of these settlers was Asa Prior, considered by many to be the father of Cedartown. According to local legend, the water rights to Big Spring Park, Cedartown, GeorgiaBig Spring were won for the white settlers by a local white boy in a footrace with a Cherokee youth. Some versions of the legend differ, saying that the rights to the spring were won by the Cherokee people from the Creek people in a ball game. Regardless, by the 1830s the Cherokee people had established a village they called "Beaver Dam" on the site of present day Cedartown. In 1838, under the direction of President of the United StatesUnited States President Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act, a fortification was built at the white settlement (then called 'Big Springs') for the purpose of forced internment of the Cherokee people, who were then forcibly migrated down the Trail of Tears to Indian reservations in Oklahoma. These fortifications did much for the prosperity of the fledgling town of Big Springs, which became 'Cedar Town' when Asa Prior deeded Big Spring and 10 acres (40,000 m sq) of adjacent land to the newly chartered city in 1852. Soon afterward, Cedar Town became the county seat of the newly created Polk County, GeorgiaPolk County. In the American Civil War, Cedar Town was abandoned by most of its citizens when Union (American Civil War)Union troops encroached. The city was burnt to the ground by the Union forces of General Hugh Kirkpatrick in 1865, leaving only one mill (factory)mill standing on the outskirts of town. In 1867, the town was re-chartered by the state of Georgia (U.S. state)Georgia as 'Cedartown'. An influx of industrial business bolstered the largely cotton-based economy of Cedartown, with fabric mills and iron works appearing in or near what is now the Cedartown Industrial Park on the west side of town. Industrial and passenger rail transportrailroad service was added to Cedartown in the early 20th century. Main St. became a part of U.S. Highway 27, a major north-south automobile route that connects Cedartown to larger cities like Chattanooga, Tennessee and Columbus, Georgia. U.S. 27 also intersects in town with U.S. Highway 278, which connects Cedartown with Atlanta, Georgia. The GoodyearGoodyear Tire and Rubber Company built a large textile mill operation in Cedartown, and also built a large residential section of town for mill workers, now known as the Mill Village. In recent times, the Georgia Rails Into Trails project has converted much of the former Silver Comet LineSilver Comet railroad line into the Silver Comet Trail, a federal and state funded park that connects many cities in Northwest Georgia. Cedartown's Main St. is listed in the National Register of Historic Places in recognition of its 1890s architecture. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedartown%2C_Georgia

Neither the Cherokee or the Creek were "native Americans", as they did not submit or subscribe to the rule of law set forth by the first real "Americans". Certainly, they may have been "native" to the land on which they lived at the time of the arrival of the Europeans, but to say they were native "Americans" is plain old revisionist politically correct panty waist babble. We know, from a genealogical standpoint, all humans originated in what is now Africa. So I would reckon we are ALL native Africans. To refer to the people that fought and killed the earliest European immagrant settlers to the land those Settlers later named "America" as "Native Americans" is an affront to the civility and foresight of those settlers who, unlike the lawless (not to mention backward thinking) people they found upon arrival had an innate belief in individual rigts over the rights of a ruling "caste" So....let's lose the "native American" reference. It's not accurate. They were in no way "Americans" and in no way "natives" and I defy any person to prove otherwise.