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Austell has the friendly, relaxed atmosphere of a small southern town. Strategically located in southwest Cobb County, Austell is eighteen miles away from Regional commercial and industrial complexes as well as cultural, recreational, and leisure activities are within easy driving distance for Austell residents. The Austell public schools are part of the nationally acclaimed Cobb County School District, and they offer excellent opportunities for students K - 12. Additionally, universities and technical schools in the immediate area provide exceptional opportunities for advanced education. The hunters soon found that the waters had wonderful medicinal properties, and spread the news of its remarkable cures, until long before the Civil War, it was the About this time the old Georgia Pacific, now a division of the Southern Railway, made Austell not only a station on its own lines, but the division point for the two lines that converge there the route to Birmingham and the one to Chattanooga. LITHIA SPRINGS AND ARTESIAN WELLS. Austell has been richly endowed by nature in many ways, but in none more generously than in the bounteous gift of healing waters. Located on the south side are the old salt springs, now owned and operated by the Bowden Lithia Water Company. As the water flows from the spring it is immediately bottled in their new concrete sanitary bottling house, then placed on the little dummy cars, and in five minutes is at the Austell depot, ready to be shipped to all parts of the world. Surrounding their several springs is an immense picturesque and beautiful park, well provided with swings, and seats, and having a beautiful pavilion. Skirting the southeast confines of the park is the Sweetwater Creek -- yielding a generous string even to an amateur fisherman.
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