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Cartersville is a city in northwest Georgia and the seat of Bartow County, located about 44 miles north of Atlanta on Interstate 75.

Cartersville was settled right after the Cherokee Removal of 1838-39 in anticipation of the Western and Atlantic Railroad being built through the Etowah Valley.

The city is believed to be named for Colonel Farish Carter, a wealthy Georgia planter and entrepreneur, and it was incorporated in 1850 with about 150 citizens.

Cartersville became the Bartow County seat in 1867 after the original county seat, Cassville, was destroyed during the Civil War in 1864.

The 2020 census counted 23,187 people in Cartersville.

Census QuickFacts counted 9,230 households in Cartersville in 2020-2024, averaging 2.52 persons per household.

Just south of the city, the Etowah Indian Mounds preserve a 54-acre Mississippian-culture town occupied from about 1000 to 1550, whose largest mound stands 63 feet high; the site is a National Historic Landmark and is considered the most intact Mississippian site in the Southeast.

Cartersville is known as Georgia's 'Museum City' and is the smallest city in the country with two Smithsonian-affiliated museums: the Booth Western Art Museum and the Tellus Science Museum.

The Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville holds one of the world's largest permanent exhibitions of Western art, and the city also has the Savoy Automobile Museum, which opened in 2021, the Bartow History Museum and the Rose Lawn House Museum.

Bartow County was originally named Cass County when it was created in 1832, but the legislature renamed it in 1861 for Francis S. Bartow, a Savannah Confederate colonel killed at the First Battle of Manassas.