How much do you know about Austell Georgia (Part 2 of our quiz)?

By Larry Felton Johnson

Cobb County has seven cities within it, and these quizzes will, from time to time, focus on individual cities.

Today the quiz takes on the City of Austell, Cobb’s smallest city by population. This is Part 2 of a series of quizzes on Austell.

You can find Part 1 of the quiz about Austell at this link.

We run daily quizzes that are featured on the main site and in the Cobb County Courier newsletter. If you’d like to subscribe to our free daily newsletter, there’s a button near the top of the newsletter page.

Each quiz will focus on a place or topic about Cobb County. The intent of these quizzes is not only to find out how much our readers already know about the county, but to educate them. Informed citizens have a much better chance of engaging productively with the community.

After the quiz there is a list of links to learn more about the answers.

1.

Austell’s original city limits formed what shape?

Square

Triangle

Circle

Rectangle

2.

The historic Threadmill Complex was associated with which industry?

Textile

Automobile

Steel

Petroleum

3.

What makes Austell especially interesting to railfans?

A subway museum

Passenger ferries

Rail lines diverging toward Birmingham and Chattanooga

Georgia’s only monorail

4.

Which creek flows through Austell?

Sope Creek

Rottenwood Creek

Sweetwater Creek

Nickajack Creek

5.

Austell was historically known as what type of destination?

Mining center

Natural health resort

Seaport

State Capital

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Links to where to find answers to the questions

Question 1

Question 2

Question 3

Question 4

Question 5