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Powder Springs is a city in southwestern Cobb County, Georgia, part of the Atlanta metropolitan area, and its official motto is 'Small enough to know you... Large enough to serve you.'

The town was incorporated as Springville in 1838, in lands that had belonged to two Cherokee leaders, a decade after gold was discovered in Georgia drew European-American settlers to the area.

Early settlers searched for gold in the mines at Lost Mountain and off Brownsville Road but found little, and it was in this era that the Cherokee were forced from their land on the Trail of Tears.

Springville was renamed Powder Springs in 1859 after the seven springs within the city limits, whose mineral-rich water — containing some 26 minerals — turned the surrounding sand black like gunpowder; the community was earlier known as Gunpowder Springs.

During the Civil War, a skirmish was fought at Lattermore's Mills in Powder Springs on June 20, 1864, as part of the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain during Sherman's Atlanta Campaign.

The 2020 census counted 16,887 people in Powder Springs, up from 13,940 in 2010, living in 5,755 households, and Census Bureau estimates have since pushed the city's population past 21,000.

Powder Springs was still a rural village of 746 people in 1960 before Atlanta's suburban growth transformed it into a city of thousands.

The city's Walter H. Cantrell Stadium seats 12,000 spectators and is used mainly for football and soccer matches.

McEachern High School in Powder Springs stands on the site of a former Native American burial ground and of the Seventh District Agricultural and Mechanical School.

Future U.S. Senator Richard B. Russell attended the Seventh District A&M School in Powder Springs, and McEachern High School's administrative building is named in his honor.