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Canton is a city in and the county seat of Cherokee County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 22,958, up from 7,709 in 2000.

Located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the site where Canton would be founded lay in the heart of the original Cherokee Nation. During the first 100 years of Georgia's history, Northwest Georgia was generally considered "Indian Country" and was bypassed by settlers going West. Georgia reached an accord with the federal supervision in 1802 hurriedly after the Revolutionary War to renounce its Western Territory (it claimed the Pacific Ocean as its western boundary) in quarrel for the removal of all Indians within its boundaries. Although other tribes had been removed, the Cherokee remained. Since this was the heartland of the Cherokee Nation, the divulge and nation were reluctant to upset them. But behind the Georgia Gold Rush in 1829, European-American settlers ignored the Indian problems and began to touch into the area north of Carrollton and west of the Chattahoochee River and named it Cherokee.

Many members of the Cherokee Nation moved west in 1829, but the majority stayed until removed by federal troops sent into the Place during the summer of 1838. The surviving Cherokee were gathered and held in forts until the removal could be completed. Present-day Cherokee County had the largest and most southerly of these forts, Fort Buffington, which stood 6 miles (10 km) east of Canton. Today nothing stands to identify its timber structure, but the Place is marked by a large fragment of green Cherokee marble quarried close Holly Springs. By autumn of 1838, the federal troops had able their mission, and the Cherokee at Fort Buffington were marched off to join additional groups upon the infamous "Trail of Tears," a lengthy march in worsening winter weather to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River.

The other settlers chose a site for a long-lasting county chair and courthouse in 1833, naming it "Etowah". The publish was misrepresented to "Cherokee Courthouse" in 1833. In 1834 it was changed to "Canton" (pronounced cant'n), after the Chinese city of Guangzhou, which was next known in English as Canton (pronounced can tahn). The proclaim was chosen because a intervention of citizens had dreams of making the Georgia town a center of the silk industry, which was concentrated in China at the time. Though Canton never became a significant silk center, it did become a well-to-do manufacturing community.

During the American Civil War, Canton, which had a population of approximately 200, was burned in the middle of November 1 and 5, 1864, by the Union Army under the command of Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman. Canton was destroyed by a foraging party of the Ohio 5th Cavalry below the command of Major Thomas T. Heath. At the times the Ohio 5th Cavalry was headquartered in Cartersville. The written order for destruction was given upon October 30, 1864, by Brig. General John E. Smith. Union troops were ordered to burn the town because of Confederate guerrilla attacks coming from Canton and directed adjoining the Western and Atlantic Railroad near the town of Cassville. The railroad was a necessary supply pedigree for the Union Army from the captured city of Chattanooga, Tennessee, to newly captured Atlanta. The Union troops identified the Canton house of Governor Joseph E. Brown for destruction. The similar Union party destroyed Cassville, the county chair of neighboring Bartow County, on November 5, 1864, as it has as a consequence been a base of guerrilla actions. Cassville never rebuilt, but Canton survived to prosper, as it was the county seat.

Over the years, Canton evolved from unsettled territory to a prosperous mill town known the world over for its "Canton Denim". The indigenous county of 1831 now includes 24 counties. The city of Canton remains the county seat.

Cherokee Poultry, founded by T.B.Bradshaw was built on Univeter Road in 1955; later sold to Central Soya in 1962. The Canton Cotton Mills, which produced the famous "Canton Denim", closed in 1981. Since then, Canton has grown as the suburbs of Atlanta have expanded northward, and is currently experiencing its era of greatest population growth, which approximately tripled in the middle of 2000 and 2010.