Felton Home

This was the in-town home of Rebecca Latimer Felton, who in 1922 became the first woman to sit in the U.S. Senate. Appointed at 87, she served only a day; a writer and reformer, she was also an outspoken white supremacist.

Felton Home is a historical marker in Cartersville, Bartow County, erected in 1953. It is one of 139 historical markers documented in Bartow County, among 265 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.

The site sits at 34.2062, -84.7994 near Cartersville. The nearest cataloged historic site is Felton, Rebecca Latimer, House (historic place), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include John J Smith Family Cemetery, Providence Cemetery and Mausoleum, and Benham Family Cemetery.

This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.