Welcome to Polk County, Georgia. Polk County Georgia was formed in 1851 by an act of the Georgia Legislature. It was formed from land taken from western Paulding County where legislative moves took parts of Paulding, Floyd and Bartow and made Polk from it, this placed Van Wert in Polk County. Van Wert formerly the county seat was named for Issac Van Wert, a hero of the American Revolution. Van Wert was established in 1832 and named county seat in 1838. Because the county’s seat was not close enough to the center of the county, Cedartown became the new seat of Government in December 1854.Polk County is named for James K. Polk the eleventh president of the United States. Polk county has three incorporated cities; Cedartown, Rockmart and Aragon.
 
Cedartown now a “Main Street City” still carries the same name as the Creek Indians town previously found in the area.  The Creek Indians engaged in a game of ball with the Cherokee Indians for the land rights. The Creeks lost and the Cherokees won a land rich in resources bounded by the Tennessee line on the north and the Chattahoochee River on the south. The Native Americans gave up their home in 1832 when the settlers from eastern Georgia, the Carolinas and Virginia began to take up residence. Cedartown’s name symbolizes the large groves of Cedars and Long Leaf Pines. The water supply is furnished by the second largest limestone spring in the south. The Big Spring produces an average of four million gallons of water per day and supplies about 10,000 people with water.
 
Rockmart located in the heart of the Coosa Valley area of North Georgia is situated in a triangle formed by Atlanta, Georgia, Birmingham, Alabama and Chattanooga, Tennessee. Rockmart is known for its natural abundance of slate, limestone, iron shale and clay. Rockmart’s name derived from the two words Rock Market, for the town was once a scene of roofing slate business. When the first railway was being built, Van Wert was immediately thought of as the logical place for the Southern Railway depot to be built. However, a wealthy landowner, Colonel Seaborn Jones, offered land and money for a station to be built one mile west of Van Wert, in an area that became Rockmart, which was incorporated in 1872.
 
Aragon was established in 1899. In 1929 Aragon was referred to as an “Industrial Utopia” because of the employment and recreation offered by one of the original industrial enterprises of Polk County. The Aragon Mills was owned by A.D. Julliard & Company, Inc. The mill was built and chartered in 1898 and was one of the largest in the state. Aragon has since become an incorporated town with a government body consisting of a mayor and four council members. Please use the navigation at the top and left of the page to discover more about Historical Polk County.