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Acworth is a city in Cobb County, Georgia, in the foothills of the North Georgia mountains, sitting along the southeastern banks of Lake Acworth and Lake Allatoona on the Etowah River.

Acworth is nicknamed "The Lake City" because of its position between Lake Acworth and the much larger Lake Allatoona reservoir.

Acworth began as a watering stop for locomotives after the Western and Atlantic Railroad was completed through the area in 1840, on land carved out of the former Cherokee Nation in 1831.

The town received its current name in 1843 from Western & Atlantic Railroad engineer Joseph L. Gregg, who named it for his hometown of Acworth, New Hampshire.

Acworth's population was 22,440 at the 2020 census, up from 20,425 in 2010, with roughly 8,903 households in recent Census Bureau survey figures.

Lake Acworth is a 260-acre man-made lake formed by a concrete dam built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1950 during the construction of Lake Allatoona, and only electric trolling motors are allowed on its water.

Acworth Beach, the city's public white-sand beach on the lake's northern shore at 25-acre Cauble Park, was created by trucking in white sand over the region's red clay, and the Lake Acworth Beach and Beachhouse were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

Cauble Park also hosts the Veterans Memorial at Patriots Point and the city's Fourth of July fireworks, while Dallas Landing Park and the 82-acre Proctor Landing Park give Acworth two more beach parks on Lake Allatoona.

The 42-acre Acworth Sports Complex on South Main Street, split by Proctor Creek, contains seven baseball fields and two football fields and is home to the Acworth Baseball Association.

Acworth students attend Cobb County School District schools, including Allatoona High School, which serves the city's west side.