Visitors flock to the Tellus Science Museum in Cartersville, Ga. The museum features several big attractions, including a mineral gallery, a fossil gallery and a planetarium.Welcome to Cartersville, Ga.; it’s not Atlanta.
That’s the slogan created in 1996 during the Atlanta Olympics to attract more business to the quaint town. It worked, said Ellen Archer, the Cartersville-Bartow County Convention and Visitors Bureau director.
“So many small towns have melted into Atlanta,” Archer said. “We’re not so close that we don’t have our own identity.”
Just a few miles off the busy Interstate 75, Cartersville offers attractions for water sport athletes, art enthusiasts and nature lovers.
The popular 12,000-acre Allatoona Lake attracts campers and water-skiers from all over the region, Archer said.