Allatoona was a town that reached its height during the gold rush of the 1840s along with what nearby Cherokee County town?
Allatoona, Georgia Allatoona was a town located in extreme southeastern Bartow County, Georgia. The population is estimated to have been approximately 1,000. Built along Allatoona Creek, it was a gold mining area later in the first U.S. gold rush, which took place in Georgia and North Carolina. Reaching its height in the 1840s, the Georgia Gold Rush continued into the 1850s even while the second gold rush was occurring in California. (Gold was also mined in nearby Woodstock.)
Albert H. Ellis Albert Harman Ellis was a politician and farmer from Oklahoma. Ellis, born in Indiana on December 17, 1861, came to Oklahoma as a homesteader, participating in the Land Run of 1893 that opened the Cherokee Outlet for settlement. Ellis settled in present-day Garfield County southwest of Hayward.