Allatoona Pass

Allatoona Pass is a Georgia historical marker in Bartow County, dedicated 1956.

Marker is on Old Allatoona Road 0.2 miles north of Allatoona Landing Road in Allatoona.

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Allatoona was in pioneer days a travel hub, because ridges from east and south met here where it was fairly easy to cross the Allatoona Mountain range by winding over a low ridge, or pass. The Sandtown or Tennessee Road from the south, and the old Alabama Road from the east, joined here to cross the pass, then separated, the Sandtown to cross the Etowah and aim for Tennessee, and the Alabama Road to run west on the south side of the Etowah.

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Historical maps covering this location

1891 · Cartersville, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1895 · Atlanta Campaign 3rd epoch. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1896 · Cartersville, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1907 · Acworth, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1909 · Acworth, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Atlanta Campaign 3rd epoch, 1895, covering the location of Allatoona Pass, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Atlanta Campaign 3rd epoch, 1895, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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This historical marker is part of the Georgia Historical Marker Program and was erected by the Georgia Historical Commission. Marker texts and locations come from the Society's own marker database.

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