Talk:Rome, Georgia

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This page is somewhat misleading. Consider the following: "Because it was built on seven hills, Rome, Georgia, is named for Rome, Italy, which was also originally built on seven hills." More specifically, the 5 founders of Rome each chose a name for the city and put it in a hat. Daniel R. Mitchell put the name Rome in the hat because of the seven hills. And his name was the one pulled out of the hat. So the relevance of the seven hills was a deciding factor in its naming, but so was the luck of the draw. The details of this are documented at the following location: http://romegeorgia.com/sevenhills.html.

This issue has been addressed. Someone make some improvements before me, and I tried to make it a little clearer. JD Lambert 23:44, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

I reverted the statement that Rome is second in population to Dalton in NW GA because the 2000 Federal Census lists Dalton's pop as 27,912 and Rome's as 34,980. The Dalton Metropolitan Area has a larger population than Rome, but that's comparing apples and oranges. JD Lambert^(T|C) 22:01, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Largest in the "triangle"

In the introductory paragraphs, it says something about Rome being the largest city in the triangle formed by points in Chatt, Bham, and ATL. I don't mean to be nitpicky (sp?) but, Gadsden is larger than Rome. I guess maybe Gadsden was not considered because it is linked to the interstate system. I dunno, maybe it should be re-worded to a more specific explanation. AlaGuy (talk) 23:02, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Quite right, AlaGuy, and it's not picky to point out something that is factually incorrect. I've tweaked the sentence to make it accurate in regards to Gadsden. JD Lambert^(T|C) 15:13, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

sounds great :) AlaGuy (talk) 23:52, 7 April 2008 (UTC)