Powder Springs, Georgia
| Powder Springs, Georgia | |
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| City | |
Downtown Powder Springs
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| Motto: "Small enough to know you...Large enough to serve you" | |
 Location in Cobb County and the state of Georgia |
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| Coordinates: 33°51′57″N 84°40′49″W / 33.86583°N 84.68028°WCoordinates: 33°51′57″N 84°40′49″W / 33.86583°N 84.68028°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Georgia |
| County | Cobb |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Al Thurman |
| Area | |
| • Total | 7.18 sq mi (18.60 km2) |
| • Land | 7.17 sq mi (18.57 km2) |
| • Water | 0.01 sq mi (0.03 km2) |
| Elevation | 945 ft (288 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 13,940 |
| • Density | 1,945/sq mi (750.9/km2) |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| ZIP code | 30127 |
| Area code(s) | 770/678/470 |
| FIPS code | 13-62524 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0356480 |
| Website | www |
Powder Springs is a city in Cobb County, Georgia, United States. The population was 13,940 at the 2010 census, with an estimated population for 2015 of 14,826.
In 2015 the city elected its first black mayor, Al Thurman. He was the first African American to be elected as mayor in Cobb County, but was one of several elected in small towns in Georgia in 2015.
The town of Powder Springs was incorporated as Springville in 1838 in the lands of two Cherokee Indian leaders. Gold had been discovered in Georgia ten years earlier, and the first European-American settlers came to find gold. The settlers found little gold in the mines at Lost Mountain and off Brownsville Road. It was at about this time that the Cherokee people were forced off their land and removed to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River on the Trail of Tears.
Springville was renamed as Powder Springs in 1859. The name was derived from the seven springs in the city limits. The water in these springs contains some 26 minerals that turn the surrounding sand black like gunpowder – hence the earlier name of Gunpowder Springs.
Civil War history includes a skirmish at Lattermore's Mills on June 20, 1864, that was a part of the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain and General Sherman's Atlanta Campaign. Many slaves escaped the plantations in this area to join Sherman's forces and gain freedom.
Powder Springs is located in southwestern Cobb County at 33°51′57″N 84°40′49″W / 33.86583°N 84.68028°W (33.865933, -84.680349).U.S. Route 278 (C. H. James Parkway) passes through the city west of its center, leading 5 miles (8 km) southeast to Austell and 11 miles (18 km) northwest to Dallas. Downtown Atlanta is 22 miles (35 km) to the east via US 278 and Interstate 20.
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