A history of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America; including numerous incidents of more than local interest, 1540-1922 . the shape ofhuman bones dug out of a mound nearthe junction of the Etowah and theOostanaula. From 1840 to 1861 Rome grewfast. In this period Wm. R. Smith(called Long Bill because hewore his hair in a cjueue down hisback), Col. Wade S. Cothran andCol. Daniel S. Printup engaged in railroad enterprises,and in addition. Col. Printup at-tended to a large law business, andCol. Cothran acquired an interestin the steamboat lines, for whichCa
A history of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America; including numerous incidents of more than local interest, 1540-1922 . the shape ofhuman bones dug out of a mound nearthe junction of the Etowah and theOostanaula. From 1840 to 1861 Rome grewfast. In this period Wm. R. Smith(called Long Bill because hewore his hair in a cjueue down hisback), Col. Wade S. Cothran andCol. Daniel S. Printup engaged in railroad enterprises,and in addition. Col. Printup at-tended to a large law business, andCol. Cothran acquired an interestin the steamboat lines, for whichCapt. F. M. Coulter had built anumber of handsome and service-able boats. COL. ALFRED SHORTER, whom WilliamSmith induced to come to Rome from Ala-bama, and who gave Dixie Shorter College. ?Shermans Memoirs, 1875, Vol. II. **U. S. Senate Documents, Vol. 40, Sher-man—a Memorial Sketch. ***Accordin!2: to Mrs. Hiram D. Hill, visited her parents, Col. and Mrs. Danl. Mrs. Mitchell was a member of theMann family, to whose members Mr. Davis wasalso related. Mr. Davis and Mrs. Mitchell weresecond cousins, according to Mrs. O u o ?u <U OUi-, OJ•l-J ^- g o < DO WQ Growth from Village to Town 107 The Rome Railroad (originallythe Memphis Branch Railroad andSteamboat Company of Georgia)was chartered Dec. 21, 1839, andthe whole town turned out severalyears later when the first trainpuffed in from Kingston, 16 milesand a good hour away.* In 1855 theNobles came from Reading, Pa., togive Rome a decided boost in ironmanufactures. The LeHardys ar-rived from Belgium to found theirBelgian colony, an experimentwhich added much to the agricul-tural interest and the social, edu-cational and cultural importanceof Rome. Major Chas. H. Smith(Bill Arp) moved over fromLawrenceville in 1851, and thusRome acquired a literary expound-er who could proclaim her gloriesabroad, a sweet-voiced singer whocould put her wonders into typeand an artist who could paint herrude characte
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