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Chieftains Museum

Chieftains Museum, also known as the Major Ridge Home, is a two-story white frame house built around a log house of 1792 in Cherokee country . It was the home of the Cherokee leader Major Ridge— notable for his role in negotiating and signing the Treaty of New Echota of 1835, which ceded the remainder of Cherokee lands in the Southeast to the United States. He was part of a minority group known as the Treaty Party, who believed that relocation was inevitable and wanted to negotiate the best deal with the United States for their people. The chiefs had agreed they could not go to war against the United States on the removal issue, but most other Cherokee opposed Ridge and the Treaty Party. He and some other members of the Treaty Party were assassinated after removal to the Cherokee Nation in Indian Territory for having ceded the tribes communal lands, as this was considered a capital crime. Major Ridges first house here was small and built of handhewn logs, in the dogtrot style. He made later additions to formally enclose the dogtrot and added extensions at each side, creating a white wood-frame two-story house. This was the big house of his busy 223-acre plantation, which property extended to the banks of the Oostanaula River, upstream of its confluence with the Etowah River, which forms the Coosa River. The house was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1973. The Major Ridge Home was purchased for preservation by the Junior League of Rome. In 1971 it was adapted for use as a historic house museum, known as the "Chieftains Museum". In 2002 the museum was designated by the National Park Service as an official site on the "Cherokee Trail of Tears National Historic Trail," which had been established in 1987. The building was renamed as Chieftains Museum / Major Ridge Home in his honor. The museums exhibits focus on Major Ridge and 19th-century Cherokee life and culture. Ridges plantation had extended to the river, which he used for travel and transportation of his cotton to market. An eight-acre area along the river is now part of Riverside Park in Rome, Georgia.

Barron Stadium

Barron Stadium is a 6,500-seat football field and track & field stadium in Rome, Georgia. It is home to the Shorter University Hawks and Rome High School Wolves football teams. The stadium hosted the NAIA Football National Championship from 2008-2013. The facility hosted the NCCAA Victory Bowl and NCCAA track championships for the first time in 2013. Shorter University has contracts to host the preceding events through 2015. Barron Stadium is owned and operated by the Rome-Floyd Parks and Recreation Authority , a city-county partnership, which charges Shorter University $7,500 to host its home football games there as part of a three-year, $321,000 usage deal that includes football, track & field, other sports, events, and the school's commencement exercises. Rome High School pays $5,000 per game for its home football games. The RFPRA provides staffing for athletic events and pays for facility maintenance. The athletic field is over 100 years old, originally known as Hamilton Field. Dating to 1924, the stadium was renamed Barron Stadium in 1925 for local businessman William F. Barron, who helped acquire the property. Barron's father founded the Rome Coca-Cola bottling plant in 1901. Lights were installed by 1937, and the school district turned over operation of the facility to the city recreation department in 1957. Renovations occurred in 1967 and 2008, and a new press box was built in 2001. In 2010, Barron received $3.4 million in upgrades that included a new artificial turf field, an NCAA-certified track, and a new scoreboard, plus expanded locker room, press and seating facilities. In its early days, the field hosted local prep teams like the Rome Hilltoppers and Darlington Lakesiders. Barron hosted football state championship wins for local East Rome High School in 1977 and 1978, and for West Rome High School in 1983 and 1985. The last crosstown rivalry football game between the schools was played at Barron in 1991 before they were consolidated into one high school. State football championship games were also held at Barron Stadium in 1953, 1954, 1969, 1971, 1972, and 1974. The stadium began hosting Shorter College football in 2005, the program's inaugural season. A proposed relocation of the facility in 2005 was scuttled after talks between local developers and the city broke down. Developers wanted to turn the 14-acre Barron Stadium area into a multi-use development with homes, offices, and retail. The athletic facilities would have been relocated to a new location adjacent to Rome's minor-league baseball park, State Mutual Stadium, with the new complex consisting of a new football stadium, track, gymnastics center, aquatic center, and other buildings. Although an initial agreement was entered into by the developers and the city, cost estimates and a short timeline for development eventually derailed the project. Other problems during the project discussions included the timeline for debt retirement of bonds that would have been issued from a newly created tax-allocation district and reimbursements to Floyd County under the proposed city/county agreement. On September 7, 2013, Barron Stadium hosted the first football game in school history for Berry College. Berry College was defeated 37-0 by Maryville College in front of a standing room only crowd of 6,700. The final Berry College football game of the 2013 season was also played at Barron Stadium. All 2014 Berry College home football games were played at Barron Stadium before the team began playing at their newly constructed on-campus stadium, Valhalla, at the beginning of the 2015 season. The track at Barron Stadium is named the John Maddox Track after a local track standout and 1932 Summer Olympics hopeful who successfully lobbied the city for a better municipal track facility and helped found the Rome News Relays, a major local track & field event. In 1971, the track at Barron was named after Maddox following his sudden death the previous year. Maddox was the grandson of local judge and U.S. Rep. John W. Maddox. There are also tennis courts located at the stadium complex.

Redmond Regional Medical Center

Redmond Regional Medical Center, (originally Redmond Park Hospital), is located in Rome, Georgia, United States, and is one of the largest employers in Floyd County with a staff of 1,200 and over 250 affiliated doctors. Redmond is a 230 bed medical, surgical and rehab unit serving Rome, Floyd County, and surrounding counties. Serving as the heart hospital for northwest Georgia, Redmond offers cardiac services and is the only dedicated chest pain center in Northwest Georgia. Other areas include emergency care, orthopaedics, vascular care, the surgery center, and an inpatient rehabilitation unit. The hospital does coronary artery bypass surgery, heart attack care, knee surgery, total and partial hip joint replacement, and hip fracture surgery. Improvements include a new ICU wing, a new 34 bed medical/surgical unit made up of exclusively private rooms and an extended parking lot. Emergency Department and patient room renovations are underway.
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