Ranging in price from $75,000 to $2,700,000, there is a home for any family. On Trulia, 470 homes are listed for sale. More than 31 percent of homeowners stay in their residences five or more years, showing that Canton provides a great place to live. According to Zillow, the median home sale price is $377,248. With a growing population of 71,243 people, there is a constant need for more housing. New subdivisions continuously keep popping up in this exciting city. From rural farmland to mill-town to popular d estination, Canton is now a hub for living, shopping, dining, movies and recreation. Unlike many other cities that suffered the same fate, Canton was able to rebuild. Over the course of the 20th century, Canton developed from an industrial hub to instead host major tech industries such as Google, Cox and Microsoft. Canton became quite popular for its Cotton products, which included the well renowned “Canton Denim” fabric produced at the time. Some Sharecroppers were given an empty plot of land and were expected to meet quotas while others were given land with small houses and farming equipment. Poor Southerners were often binded into exploitative contracts with a larger farmer in exchange for specific arrangements. Like in many areas of the South, Cotton became the cash crop of Canton with the practice of Sharecropping. Canton in the 19th century became an industrial hub, both growing and manufacturing cotton products and exporting marble and other minerals for industrial use. Canton recovered from the March to the Sea with the expansion of the American railroad network.Ĭanton laid along the rail line connecting Woodstock to Ball Ground, allowing farmers to ship cotton to mills and for marble to be processed in Cherokee county before export. At the end of the American Civil War, Canton was burned by the Ohio 5th Cavalry of the United States Army in early November 1865.Then, during the Civil War, the city was destroyed by the Union Army. Canton was on its way to becoming a bustling manufacturing community. It started as the “heart of the Cherokee Nation” and transformed after the Trail of Tears in the 1830s. 9% of the county’s population prior to the war was made up of African Slaves. Cherokee county had around 150 slave owners, the majority of whom owned four or less. This transition to industry started before the civil war, but on the eve of war Canton’s major industry remained Agriculture, with mostly small farms. While Canton never did become a Silk capital like the Chinese city of Guangzhou (named Canton in English during the period) it did become a major industrial hub. The land around Canton and in Cherokee county was also desirable for farming and plantations. The area was also rich with minerals used in construction and the growing American industry such as iron, copper, titanium, quartz, mica, granite and marble. The initial push to drive the Cherokee out of Georgia was sparked by the Georgian Gold Rush in 1829. The land was desirable for many reasons, the settler’s original intention was to create a hub of silk production in Georgia. In 1830, the US Government began to remove Native Americans from the American Southeast, with the last of the Cherokees being forcibly removed in 1838. The Cherokee had inhabited most of modern North Georgia, and parts of West Virginia, North and South Carolina and Tennessee for several thousand years with their territory and hunting grounds fluctuating based on wars with their rivals and the European empires. Canton was founded by settlers in 1832 under the name Cherokee Courthouse. Located just north of Atlanta off of I-575, Canton was not always a bustling t ech-hub.
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