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Rome (City and county-seat of Floyd)

a city and county-seat of Floyd co., Ga.; on the Coosa river, and on the Southern, the Central of Georgia, the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis, the Rome and Northern and the Western and Atlantic railroads; 72 miles N. W. of Atlanta. Here are a high school, Shorter College for Women (Bapt.); hospitals, parks, waterworks, electric lights, street railroads, National and State banks, and daily and weekly periodicals. The There is a large trade in cotton and general merchandise. The city has plow works, sewer pipe works, foundries, a rolling mill, stove works, furniture factory, planing mills, cotton ROME mills, hosiery works, etc. Pop. (1910) 12,099; (1920) 13,252.