Interesting Facts of Local Significance

Courtesy Ron Good:

• American gangster and bank robber “Pretty Boy” Floyd was born in Adairsville, Ga.

• The expression “The road to Hell is paved with good intentions” was allegedly coined by Samuel Porter Jones, the great nineteenth-century revivalist preacher and pride of Cartersville, Ga.

• Author Corra Mae Harris lived for twenty years in Rydal, Ga.