Other Carrollton sites:

Main Street Building 315 Bradley Street
Around the turn of the century, this simple brick structure was home to a shoe cobbler and then an undertaking business. In 1952, Mr. E.G. Akin opened E.G. Akin’s Time Shop watch repair. Today, this small brick building is home to Carrollton’s Main Street Office. The Main Street program has helped plan and design the facades of many of the downtown buildings, bringing new businesses to the downtown area and hosting Mayfest on the Square the first Saturday in May.

The Farmers Store Building (aka Carrollton Antiques, located behind Main Street Office) 
109 City Hall Avenue
This long masonry building is located on Old City Hall Avenue just behind the Carrollton Main Street office. It carried everything a farmer needed from seed to fertilizer. In recent years, this building has housed numerous antiques, arts and crafts and art hobby businesses. Now home to one of Carrollton’s largest antiques stores, the old Farmer Store Building is a landmark to Carrollton’s cotton farming past. If you like to go antiquing, Carrollton Antiques is a great place to look for that special relic from the past. 

City Hall 102 City Hall Avenue 
This two-story structure was built in 1912 to house Carrollton’s fire station and city offices. The auditorium upstairs first served as an Opera House for traveling shows and later as the City Auditorium. In the mid-1990s, the city hall moved into new offices on Bradley Street. The city Cultural Arts Program converted the building into the Fire Station Arts Center. That stay was short lived, however, and the building is now used by Southwire Company for their sales offices.

J.M. Johnson’s Mule Barn Building 206 Rome Street 
Johnson’s Mule Barn Building is the only building left in Carrollton that was once used as a livery stable, a place for farmers to stable their horses and mules while in town for the day. In 1918, Mr. J.M. Johnson turned his mule barn into a Buick dealership and later a garage. In recent years, this building served as Garn’s Gym, and in 2005, Sam Leneaus restored the building back to the original brick walls and rafters of the mule barn era. Now the Rome Street Tavern Grill, it’s a great gathering and eating spot. The Grill will soon open a micro-brewery offering locally brewed beers with names like Adamson Square and Historic Carrollton.

Coca Cola-Carroll Mills Building 202 Bradley Street
Originally a wagon and buggy sales and repair business, the building’s basement was used by Chero-Cola as a warehouse in 1911 before Coca-Cola Company took over and began their bottling works here. The main floor above the Coca-Cola Bottling Works was once used as a roller skating ring. Pomp Schaeffer and his two brothers-in-law established Carroll Mills Inc. in 1924. At first, the mill produced cotton bags for wrapping hams, and later dyed cotton yarn. Carroll Mills is the last of Carroll County’s old textile milling industry still in operation. 

Historic Lawler Hosiery Mill 310 Bradley Street
Thomas Jackson Lawler established Lawler Hosiery Mills in 1935. The mills have remained in operation for more than 60 years and now house loft apartments known as “The Lawler Lofts.” The former mill was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

The Squire Shop Building 109 Newnan Street
This building was built in 1887 and is the second oldest building downtown. Worthy’s Drug Store was located here from 1930 to 1959, and Young’s Men’s Shop opened at this location in the early 1960s. In 1963, Charles Willis, an employee of Young’s, purchased the business and changed the name to the Squire Shop. The family relocated the business several times around Carrollton before repurchasing the building and returning to its original location. A second generation now operates the business. Using a rendering designed by The Georgia Trust’s Main Street Design Assistance program, many of the early features of this building have been restored, including the front façade and the original tin ceiling. In 2004, Charles Willis received the Carroll County Historical Society award for historic preservation.

Historic Carrollton High School Building 118 South White Street
This two-story red brick structure was designed by renowned Classicist Architect J. Neel Reid and completed in 1921. Classical ornamentation includes Roman arch openings, with each arch topped by a keystone and featuring a limestone festoon of flowers. Six Doric pilasters adorn the main structure with a fanlight over the main door. In 1986, this historic building was saved through efforts of the Carroll County Historical Society, and the old school building was adapted to house the Carrollton Community Activities Center. The inside is undergoing extensive renovation and is closed to the public at this time.

King Street Cemetery Martin Luther King Drive, West Carrollton
This African-American cemetery, located in the West Carrollton Community, is the resting place Dr. S. D. Thomas, the first black physician in Carrollton. This simple cemetery is located on a flat lot, with several unmarked graves located in the back. Attempts have been made to identify these graves for the Carroll County Cemetery book soon to be published by the Carroll County Genealogical Society.

Sears Mail-Order House 318 Bradley Street
This Dutch Colonial Revival-style house was built in 1927. Sears, Roebuck and Company sold homes such as these, called the “Ashland,” for $2,847. It could be sent pre-cut and partially assembled to anyplace in America by rail. Everything needed to build the house was included: plumbing, lighting, hardware, doors, windows, stairs, walls and even wallpaper. This house was moved back from it former location on Bradley Street to make way for the city fire department’s hook and ladder truck.

Stewart House and Replica House 102 South Street
This grand Federal-style house was built around the turn of the century by C.H. Stewart, who ran a mercantile business on the square. The original house was located near the present-day Carrollton railroad depot. It was moved back to make way for the railroad to come through and enlarged into the house it is today. The replica house on the right lawn was built by Mr. Horace Stewart and moved to the front yard as a dollhouse for his granddaughter.

Dixie Street Historical Marker 206 Dixie Street
This historical marker was erected through public subscription by The McDaniel Curtis Camp #165, Sons of Confederate Veterans on Confederate Memorial Day, April 26, 1996.  It tells the history of Carrollton during the Civil War and the story of how Dixie Street got its name. When H.F. Merrell was so moved by the sight of Confederate soldiers marching past his residence singing Dixie, he exclaimed the road should be renamed Dixie Street, the name it bears today. This marker and the lovely homes on Dixie Street are part of Carrollton’s In-Town South Historic District.

Adamson-Baxter House 215 West Avenue
The Adamson House was built by Judge William Charles Adamson, for whom Carrollton’s Adamson Square is named. The wood for this house came from a house torn down  for the courthouse that stands there today. Judge Adamson grew up in Bowdon and came to Carrollton to study law. He became the first judge of the Carrollton city court and when on to become a U.S. Representative and U.S. Custom Court judge in New York.

Curtis-Marlow-Perry House 328 West Avenue
This 16 x 42 dogtrot house with a central hall was built in the early 1830s by Henry and Nancy Curtis. Mr. Curtis is best remembered for selling the land that became Carrollton’s Public Square and the county seat of Carroll. The construction is timber and log covered by clapboard and is presently the headquarters for the Carroll County Historical Society. The building was moved from Stewart Street for restoration and an L-shaped room was added in 1986. The Curtis Gardens are being developed behind the house with heritage plants native to the area.

Historic Carrolton Railroad Depot 431 Bradley Street
The Historic Carrollton Depot is a prairie-style brick structure with an overhanging roof supported by brackets. The first train arrived in Carrollton from Whitesburg in 1874 on the Savannah, Griffin and North Alabama line. The Chattanooga, Rome, to Carrollton line was later completed in 1888. The City of Carrollton and the Carroll County Historical Society are working to negotiate with Norfork-Southern to acquire this depot for restoration and use as a visitors center, rail museum and convention & reception hall.

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

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