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Cartersville-Bartow County
Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB)
PO Box 200397
Cartersville GA 30120 USA
Toll free from US and
Canada
1-800-733-2280
Telephone 770-387-1357

The local welcome center is
located in the restored railroad
Depot at One Friendship Plaza in
downtown Cartersville, Georgia
accessible from Interstate 75
Exit 288.


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41st Annual Great Locomotive Chase Festival
October 2, 2009 -October 4, 2009


Adairsville Historic Square, downtown Adairsville, Georgia
Friday-Saturday 8 a.m.-11:00 p.m. Sunday Noon-5 p.m. $3 admission 6+ (free on Sunday). Arts and crafts festival in the town that witnessed Andrews' Raiders Civil War escapade. Today the entire town is on the National Register of Historic Places. Enjoy 30 crafts booths, artwork, entertainment, and 40 food booths. Little Mr. & Miss Festival Pageant Friday at 6 p.m. Grand parade is Saturday at 11 a.m. Miss Festival and Junior Miss Festival pageants held at 3 p.m. Saturday. Street dance on Friday & Saturday from 8-11 p.m. Gospel singing Sunday. Don't miss the special festival activities inside the depot at the Age of Steam Rail Depot Museum open for tours Friday and Saturday. Special Heritage Crafts demonstrations from 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday and Saturday. At the Courthouse see chair caning, basket weaving and quilting. Inside the Depot see beadwork, quilling, corn shuck dolls, nut dolls, drawings of historic Adairsville by Part Time Artist Skip McNutt. Learn about making chenille by hand.
Adairsville Historic Square, downtown Adairsville, Georgia
Directions
I-75 Exit 306, Go west on GA 140 through traffic light, left onto Main St. one mile to historic Public Square.
Address

770-773-3451, ext 26


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