Bowdon area sites:

Lovvorn House 113 East College Street
This Queen Anne Victorian house was built in 1890 by Dr. James Lovvorn and his wife Carrie Johnson on lot #2 of the town’s original 1853 layout. The house features a bay window, steeply pitched hip roof with projecting gables, three irregularly placed chimneys, a prominent front porch and a small inset second-story porch.
From Carrollton: From the red light at the west end of Hwy 166 bypass, proceed 9 miles west on Hwy 166 to the red light in the center of Bowdon The Lovvorn House is on the right in front of the Wendy’s Restaurant.

Old Bowdon Inn W. College Street 
Built in 1877 by Dr. Robert Lovvorn for a family residence, the Bowdon Inn is an excellent example of Queen Ann Victorian style with its lower wrap-around porch and bargeboards in the gables. Although it later served as a bed and breakfast, it is once again being used as a single-family residence. 
Directions: Located in the center of Bowdon on right at end of Downtown Business District. Antiques shops are located across from the Inn. 

McDaniel-Whatley House 412 W. College Street
Built in 1857, this Greek Revival house features upper and lower porticos trimmed with Colonial-style candlestick railings and columns extending the length of the front of the house. The front portion was destroyed by a tornado in 1934 and rebuilt in its present craftsman style. The house was initially built by Charles McDaniel, the first president of Bowdon College, as his home.
Directions: Take State Hwy 166 to Bowdon, and proceed through red light at Hwy 100. Continue just a few blocks, and McDaniel-Whatley House is on the right just before Bowdon High School. Turn onto College View Drive (small side street just past house). Park at school. 

Methodist Protestant Church Cemetery 105 College View Drive, Bowdon
The graves of many of Bowdon’s earliest settlers can be found in the Methodist Protestant Church Cemetery, including the grave and monument of Charles A. McDaniel, the first president of Bowdon College. During the Civil War, McDaniel helped form a company that included a number of his college students and men from the Bowdon community. He was first elected captain of Co. B, Cobb’s Legion “Bowdon Volunteers,” which was ordered to Virginia. It didn’t take long for Capt. McDaniel to be promoted to colonel of the 41^st, Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry. As part of the Army of Tennessee, the 41^st was sent to western Tennessee and Kentucky. It was at the Battle of Perryville Kentucky that Col. McDaniel made a gallant charge, was mortally wounded and refused to have his leg amputated. His body was interned later in the Protestant Methodist Church Cemetery.
Directions: Located directly behind the Old Methodist Protestant Church “Meeting Place.” Gates stay locked, but are opened during meetings at the church and special occasions. 

Bowdon First United Methodist Church 302 Wedowee Street
The congregation of the 1909 Neo-Gothic Bowdon Methodist Episcopal Church was established in 1850 prior to the founding of the town. The sanctuary is in the shape of a cross, and floors slope towards the pulpit theatre-style. The brickwork on the exterior of the building was manufactured in a Bowdon brickyard. Dr. Charles L. Allen was called into the ministry at this church, and later became pastor at Grace Memorial United Methodist Church in Atlanta and First United Methodist Church in Houston, Texas.

Other Carroll County sites:
Carrollton's Adamson Square
Carrollton
Bowdon
Villa Rica
Whitesburg and county sites

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