Adairsville, Georgia. City and Business guide.

Welcome to Adairsville, Georgia.

Adairsville is a city in Bartow County, Georgia, United States. The population was 2,542 at the 2000 census. Adairsville is 11.81 miles south of Calhoun, 18.21 miles northeast of Rome and 61.11 miles north of Atlanta.

Train depot (original) that was involved in The Great Chase during Civil War next to downtown historic Adairsville (photo by Cculber007)
Adairsville used to be a small Cherokee village named after Chief Walter (John) S. Adair, a Scottish settler who married a Cherokee Indian woman before the removal of the Cherokee in 1838. It was part of the Cherokee territory along with Calhoun and including New Echota.

After the removal of the Cherokees, the village became part of Georgia, and the residents built the town keeping the name Adairsville. One of the developers was William Watts who had a lot of railroad business interest in this town. He had brought the Western and Atlantic Railroad from Atlanta (still in use). He deeded land to the railroad, surveyed business lots including hotels, mills, and blacksmith shops around the town where the railroad ran by the 1847 train depot. Watt's plan was successful and brought the town the nickname: "Granary of the State" and led to its incorporation in 1854. He was also a town resident and he had a home that was built around the foundation of an Indian cabin which is on a hill overlooking the town.

Adairsville is also well known for Barnsley Gardens, now a golf resort. The home was built by Sir Godfrey Barnsley of Derbyshire, England in the late 1840's for his wife Julia. She died before the house could be completed, but it is said that her ghost appeared to Sir Godfrey, telling him to complete the work.

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