Canton’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 2 old photos of Canton. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the site where Canton would be founded lay in the heart of the original Cherokee Nation. During the first 100 years of Georgia's history, Northwest Georgia was generally considered "Indian Country" and was bypassed by settlers going West. Georgia reached an agreement with the federal government in 1802 shortly after the Revolutionary War to relinquish its Western Territory (it claimed the Pacific Ocean as its western boundary) in exchange for the removal of all Indians within its boundaries. Although other tribes had been removed, the Cherokee remained. Since this was the heartland of the Cherokee Nation, the state and nation were reluctant to disturb them. But following the Georgia Gold Rush in 1829, European-American settlers ignored the Indian problems and began to move into the area north of Carrollton and west of the Chattahooch…
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Canton’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Canton’s history is told.
2 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewWILLIAM JESSE BARTON (Baptist Bio…, 1917: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Canton
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Canton, decade by decade
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1990s
6 historic places in Canton
Canton has 6 listings on the National Register, and they protect 341 historic buildings, because Canton Historic District alone counts 323.
Where they are
When they were listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as WILLIAM JESSE BARTON (Baptist Biography, v.1, 1917) (1917) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (6). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.