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The City of Powder Springs was incorporated as Springville in 1838
in the lands of two Cherokee Indian chiefs, Chief Nose and Chief Ana
Kanasta (Sweetwater). Gold had been discovered in Georgia ten years
earlier, and the first area settlers came to find gold. They found
little in the mines at Lost Mountain and off Brownsville Road. It
was at about this same time that the Cherokee Indians were forced
off their land and marched to Oklahoma on the "Trail of Tears."
The name Springville was changed to Powder Springs in 1859. This
name was derived from the seven springs in the City Limits. The
water in these springs contains some 26 minerals. Minerals that turn
the surrounding sand black like gunpowder – hence the name Gunpowder
Springs. People have continued to find their way to Powder Springs
since 1838. |
