City of Aragon - Polk County

Originally part of Paulding County, Polk County was separated in 1851, about the same time that Cedartown came into existence. At the time throughout North Georgia a movement had begun to reduce travel time to the county government to less than two days. Over the next few years virtually every original county would cede some land to create a new county. Paulding County's county seat of Van Wert was not close enough to the center of the county, so Cedartown became the new seat of government.