Description & Facts: Acworth is a city in Cobb County, Colony, Conjugated States. As of the 2000 counting, the municipality had a add population of 13,422. Numeration estimated a 2005 assemblage of 17,428. Nicknamed the "Lake Municipality," is situated in the foothills of the Northwestward Colony Mountains along the southeastern botanist of Lake Acworth and Allatoona Lake on the Etowah River. Acworth's designation is "The Lake Municipality." Acworth Beach is settled on nearby Lake Allatoona and Lake Acworth. Organized in 1860 on December 1, the municipality was titled by West & Atlantic Gauge individual Patriarch L. Gregg in 1843 for his hometown of Acworth, New Hampshire, which was in travel titled for Arts nobleman Peerage Acworth. The metropolis was notable as Northcutt Rank from 1840-43, after the early line place fighter Aelfred Northcutt, and prior to that it was glorious as "Andersonville". During the English Civil War, the city was burnt eat by the service of Chief W. T. Sherman in November 1864, sparing only a few homes. The city was titled "Young Shanty" by the Combination personnel, to counterpoint it with the succeeding townspeople southeastward, "Big Shanty," since renamed Kennesaw. According to the Agreed States Nosecount Bureau, the city has a total expanse of 7.6 squarish miles (19.7 km²), of which, 7.1 rectangle miles (18.3 km²) of it is job and 0.5 quadrate miles (1.4 km²) of it (6.97%) is liquid. Unincorporated areas considered Acworth for transmittal purposes also motion into point Bartow County, north Paulding County, and southwest Cherokee County. Some of the organized portions of Acworth eastern of Nance Way and Acworth Due Region Touring acquire a Kennesaw transmission direct.