at the Historic Bodiford House
3282 Florence Road Powder Springs, Georgia, 1984 The American Legion Post 294 began in 1984 when a small group of men began meeting in a local restaurant, in a member’s office or on the tailgate of a pickup truck. Soon 12 men pooled enough money to buy an old house as their first post home. […]
The Powder Springs Senior Citizen’s Center was established in 1985 and opened in the old Powder Springs School Primary building on Atlanta Street. By 1990 the Senior’s occupied two of the buildings, the old Primary School building and the old Lunchroom building. The last use of the buildings on campus was as an Elementary School. […]
Many Veterans have made Powder Springs their home, some from birth and others choosing to move and live here. Each year Powder Springs honors these Veterans on Memorial Day in May and Veterans Day in November. Memorial Day is observed on the last Monday in May. Veteran’s Day is observed on November 11. Memorial Day […]
Some of the ‘Senior Citizens’ of Powder Springs had realized a need for a place geared specifically for the enjoyment and leisure of the mature active adult population 55 years and above. In 1984, the old Powder Springs School Primary building on Atlanta Street became available. They had found their home. In 1985, the Powder […]
The Powder Springs Beautification Committee was organized in 1984 by the City of Powder Springs and is a non-profit organization. The city was assisted in organizing the committee by the Mimosa Garden and the Seven Springs Historical Society. Harold Norris, one of the charter members of the Seven Springs Historical Society, was the Team Leader […]
Pleasant Hill Baptist Church Cemetery 2433 Brownsville Road Powder Springs, GA 1850 The Pleasant Hill Baptist Church was established on June 7, 1850 on what is now the corner of Brownsville Road and Pine Valley Road. The land directly behind the church was set aside for their cemetery. The earliest marked grave was on February […]
Pleasant Hill Baptist Church was established on June 7, 1850 on what is now the corner of Brownsville Road and Pine Valley Road. The Church was constituted by Reverend Robert McMinn and P. M. Rice and started as a brush arbor structure. In 1867, after the civil war, the blacks removed themselves from Pleasant Hill […]
There were more streets off of and parallel to Main Street (Marietta Street) that have not had much attention or a lot written about them. The people and businesses located here also played an important part of the settling and growth of Powder Springs. These streets are: Pineview Drive; Jackson Way; Old Lost Mountain; Dillard […]
There are other streets in downtown Powder Springs, besides Main Street (Marietta Street), which have not had much said or written about them. These streets were and are just as important to the settlement and growth of Powder Springs as Main Street (Marietta Street). Some of these streets are: Atlanta Street, which was referred to […]
Powder Springs was not only blessed with good doctors from its very beginning, there were also dentist and druggist who would come and set up practice. Until the druggist came, most of the drugs used were administered by the local doctors in their daily practices and caring for the sick. They may also have had […]