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Place Name
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Rome
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Place Status (Type)
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city
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Capital Of
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Floyd County
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Population
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30,326 (1990)
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Location
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Floyd County, Georgia (GA), United States, North America
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Latitude
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34°16'N
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Longitude
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85°11'W
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Rome
, city (1990 pop. 30,326),  Floyd co., NW
Ga., at the confluence of the Etowah and Oostanaula rivers to form the
Coosa R.; 34°16'N 85°11'W. In a farm, timber, and quarry area. The
city was 1st established as a cotton market and an industrial center,
with textile and lumber mills, apparel factories, and foundries; now
serves as a mfg. center (printing and publishing, concrete,
transportation equip., crushed stone, plastics, electrical equip.,
metal prods., food). Rome was captured by Union forces in the Civil
War; Sherman burned the city in Nov. 1864. Seat of Floyd Col., a unit
of the Univ. System of Ga., and Shorter Col. The tall clock tower
(1871) atop one of the city's hills is Rome's famous landmark. Berry
Coll. located to the N. Est. 1834 on the site of a Cherokee village;
inc. 1847.
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