This Week: Sample Your City; Trail Dedication; Great Locomotive Chase

Sample Your City, set for Oct. 3 and 4, from 2 to 7 p.m. each day, will feature 11 downtown businesses. Patch has all the details.

Leake Mounds Interpretive Trail Dedication

The public is invited to attend a ceremony dedicating a new interpretive walking trail developed by partners the city of Cartersville, Bartow County, Georgia Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration and the University of West Georgia, according to the Cartersville-Bartow County Convention & Visitors Bureau. 

"The Leake Mounds Site pre-dates the nearby Etowah Indian Mounds and was occupied by American Indians from 300 BC to 650 AD," it says. "The site extends along the Etowah River near the river crossing at GA Hwy 113." 

The dedication will take place on Highway 113 near the Etowah River. 


Tranquility House's 17th-Annual Golf Tournament

This annual charity golf tournament, which benefits the Tranquility House, a domestic violence center in Cartersville, is set for Friday, Oct 4. The lucky golfer who gets a hole in one will take home a grand prize of $10,000. For additional information call 770-386-8093 or visit our websitewww.tranquility-house.org.  

Other happenings this week include:

• Bartow History Museum Evening Lecture Series
• Friendship Kids Children's Consignment Sale
• 45th Annual Great Locomotive Chase Festival (in Adairsville)
• First Friday Downtown
• An Evening at Oak Hill Cemetery
• Battle of Allatoona Pass
• White UMC Car Show, Yard Sale and 35th Annual Chicopen (in White)
• Skills of the Past

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