Paulding County History
Paulding County, in northwest Georgia, is the state's eighty-ninth county, created in 1832 as one of nine counties carved from the original Cherokee County.
It was named for John Paulding, one of three New Yorkers who captured the British spy John Andre. Andre was the accomplice of Benedict Arnold, a general during the Revolutionary War (1775-83) who hatched a treasonous plot to surrender an American fort to the British enemy.
Southern Airways Flight 242
Southern Airways Flight 242 was a DC-9-31 jet, registered N1335U, that executed a forced landing on a highway in New Hope, Paulding County, Georgia, United States after suffering hail damage and losing thrust on both engines in a severe thunderstorm on April 4, 1977.
Hiram Rosenwald School & Museum
In 1912, Julius Rosenwald, President of Sears, Roebuck, and Co., established the Rosenwald Fund to assist in community construction of public schools for African-American students in the South by assisting local construction projects that had raised additional funds.
By the 1930s, one in every five rural southern schools for African-Americans had been constructed with aid from Rosenwald Fund, a total of nearly 5,000 schools.
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Civil War
The War Between the States, aka the Civil War, saw many changes in the landscape of Paulding, and the residents of Dallas and Hiram.
Pickett's Mill Battlefield State Historical Site; Georgia Civil War Heritage Trails; Atlanta Campaign Historical Route in Paulding County; DeGress Battery; Orphan Brigade; Battle of New Hope Church; New Hope Cemetery.