Community Corner

90-Mile Dixie Highway Yard Sale to Come Through Cartersville

Pettit Creek Farms and Friendship Baptist Church are two Cartersville organizations set to participate in the 2013 Dixie Highway Yard Sale. If you are participating, share your listing with us.

The Dixie Highway Yard Sale is an annual event held on the first full weekend of June. Dixie Highway is 90 miles of yard sales with all sorts of vendors.

It was created in 2006 to celebrate historic communities along the Dixie Highway, including several in Bartow County. Starting in Ringgold and ending in Marietta, it has everything from antiques, souvenirs and knick-knacks to classic attractions, food, events and more.

Sales will take place in Ringgold, Tunnel Hill, Rocky Face, Dalton, Resaca, Calhoun, Adairsville, Cassville, Cartersville, Emerson, Acworth, Kennesaw and Marietta. Yard sale hours vary but most sales are open daily from 7 a.m. to dusk.

Find out what's happening in Cartersvillewith free, real-time updates from Patch.

If you are participating in the Dixie Highway Yard Sale, share your listing in the comments below and share details about it here

Pettit Creek Farms and Friendship Baptist Church are two Cartersville places participating in the Dixie Highway Yard Sale with mega sales. The church, which will make available its restrooms, won't have a sale on Sunday.

In conjunction with the 90-mile yard sale, Cartersville's The Pumphouse Players will perform its last shows of Picasso at the Lapin Agile, "the absurdist comedy written by Steve Martin" that "places Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso in a Parisian cafe in 1904," according to PHP's website.

Find out what's happening in Cartersvillewith free, real-time updates from Patch.

Shows are set for Friday and Saturday, June 7 and 8, both at 8 p.m. at the Legion Theatre. Tickets are $14.

The Dixie Highway Yard Sale takes place on the two-lane Dixie Highway, also known as “Old 41." For more information on the Dixie Highway Yard Sale, go to olddixiehighwayyardsale.com or visit the sale's Facebook page.

Tell us what you think in the comments, share your photos and videos, and don’t miss any of the local news you care about—subscribe to Cartersville Patch's newsletter, like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.


Get more local news delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for free Patch newsletters and alerts.

We’ve removed the ability to reply as we work to make improvements. Learn more here