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Industrialist Mark Anthony Cooper built one of the antebellum South's largest ironworks here on the Etowah in the 1840s, founding the town of Etowah and casting iron for Georgia's railroads and, later, Confederate cannon prized for not bursting.
Mark Anthony Cooper's Iron Works is a historical marker in Cartersville, Bartow County, erected in 1962. 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 34.1648, -84.7334 near Cartersville. The nearest cataloged historic site is Etowah and the War (historical marker), about 0.2 miles away. Others within a short drive include Battle of Allatoona, Bethany Baptist Church Cemetery, and Church of God of the Union Assembly Cemetery.
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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