...County, northeast Paulding County and southwest Cherokee County. Some of the incorporated portions of Acworth east of Nance Road and Acworth Due West Road have a Kennesaw mailing address.
Acworth Beach is located on nearby Lake Allatoona and Lake Acworth. Acworth's nickname is "The Lake City."
[Geocities.com accessed February 10, 2008]History
Incorporated in 1860 on December 1, the town was named by Western & Atlantic Railroad engineer Joseph L. Gregg in 1843 for his hometown of Acworth, New Hampshire, which was in turn named for English nobleman Lord Acworth.
[A Keene NH website]The city was known as
Northcutt Station from 1840 - 1843, after the first railroad station master Alfred Northcutt, and prior to that it was known as "Andersonville".
During the Civil War, the city was burned by the army of General W. T. Sherman in November 1864, sparing only a few homes. The city was called "Little Shanty" by the Union troops, to contrast it with the next town south, "Big Shanty," since renamed Kennesaw.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 7.6 square miles , of which, 7.1 square miles of it is land and 0.5 square miles of it is water.
Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 13,422 people, 5,194 households, and 3,589 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,896.9 people per square mile . There were 5,453 housing units at an average density of 770.7/sq mi . The racial makeup of the city was 79.66% White, 12.64% African American, 0.21% Native American, 2.30% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 3.17% from other races, and 2.00% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 6.05% of the population.
There were 5,194 households out of which 37.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.9% were marr
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