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Mark A. Cooper raised this marble monument around 1860 to thank the 38 friends who lent him the money to save his Etowah Iron Works from debt after the Panic of 1857, making it likely the only monument a debtor ever erected to honor his creditors.
Friendship Monument is a historical marker in Cartersville, Bartow County, erected in 1963. 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 34.1653, -84.7957 near Cartersville. The nearest cataloged historic site is Asa Griggs Candler (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include General William T. Wofford, CSA, Major General Pierce Manning Butler Young, CSA, and Rudy York.
This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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