Oostanaula River

The Etowah River is a 164-mile-long (264 km) waterway that rises northwest of Dahlonega, Georgia, north of Atlanta. On Matthew Carey's 1795 map the river was labeled "High Town River". On later maps, such as the 1839 Cass County map (Cass being the original name for Bartow County), it was referred to as "Hightower River", a name that was used in most early Cherokee records. The large Amicalola Creek (which flows over Amicalola Falls) is a primary tributary near the beginning of the river. The Etowah then flows west-southwest through Canton, Georgia, and soon forms Lake Allatoona. From the dam at the lake, it passes Cartersville and the Etowah Indian Mounds archaeological site. It then flows to Rome, Georgia, where it meets the Oostanaula River and forms the Coosa River at their confluence. The river is the northernmost portion of the Etowah-Coosa-Alabama-Mobile Waterway, stretching from the mountains of north Georgia to Mobile Bay in Alabama. The Little River is the largest tributary of the Etowah, their confluence now flooded by Lake Allatoona. Allatoona Creek is another major tributary, flowing north from Cobb County and forming the other major arm of the lake. The U.S. Board on Geographic Names officially named the river in 1897. The river ends at 571 feet (174 m) above mean sea level. The river is home to the Cherokee darter and Etowah darter, which are listed on the Endangered Species List. Country singer-songwriter Jerry Reed made the Etowah the home of the wild, misunderstood swamp dweller Ko-Ko Joe in the 1971 song "Ko-Ko Joe". The fictional character, who is reviled by respectable people but apparently dies a hero while saving a child's life, is alternately known as the "Etowah River Swamp Rat" in the song. Reed, a native of Atlanta, took some liberties with Georgia geography in the song, including the non-existent "Appaloosa County" and "Ko-Ko Ridge" as part of the song narrative’s setting.

The Rome Christmas Parade is an annual parade that is held in Rome, Georgia. The procession lines up down Glenn Milner Boulevard onto East First Avenue and begins at Broad St and E1st Ave, and ends on Broad Street at 6th Avenue, in front of City Hall. Thousands of Georgians come to the parade yearly to see the parade participants such as: local high school bands, vintage automobiles, church and club floats pulled by tractors, law enforcement and rescue vehicles and Santa Claus. The Rome Christmas Parade has been a tradition in Rome for many decades. Rome's Christmas parade is the oldest and largest Christmas parade in Georgia dating from 1950. This Christmas celebration is a non-commercial and non-profit event organized by local citizens. Hundreds of participants enter the parade each year: some walking groups waving to onlookers, others riding on floats, beauty pageant winners atop convertible cars, and even emergency vehicles driven by local law enforcement and rescue personnel. The floats are required to be decorated to match the parade's theme for that year, selected by a group of local citizens. There are a few rules that govern the parade such as: horses having to wear diapers and no candy being thrown out to the crowd. Santa Claus is always on the last float in the parade. The 2018 Christmas parade theme was "The King is Born". The parade was moved in 2020 to Braves Blvd where the entries remained stable and the viewers drove by to view them. This was the only time the parade was moved and it was due to Covid.

The Noble Brothers Foundry was a large ironworks manufacturer based in Rome, Georgia, United States. Its products included steamboat engines, furnaces, locomotives, and firearms (notably cannons) before, during and after the American Civil War. The remains of the facility can still be seen today.

Barron Stadium is a 6,500-seat football field and track & field stadium in Rome, Georgia. It is home to the Shorter University Hawks and Rome High School Wolves football teams. The facility hosted the NAIA Football National Championship from 2008-13 and the NCCAA Victory Bowl in 2013-14, as well as the NCCAA track championships from 2014-16. Barron Stadium is owned by the Rome-Floyd Parks and Recreation Authority (RFPRA), a city-county partnership, and has been operated by the Rome City School District since 2015. For usage, it cost Shorter University $7,500 in 2012 to host its home football games as part of a three-year, $321,000 contract that included football, track & field, other sports, events, and the school's commencement exercises. Rome High School paid $5,000 per game for its home football games at that time. The RFPRA provides staffing for athletic events and pays for facility maintenance.

Myrtle Hill Cemetery is the second oldest cemetery in the city of Rome, Georgia. The cemetery is at the confluence of the Etowah River and Oostanaula River and to the south of downtown Rome across the South Broad Street bridge.

The Tomb of the Known Soldier is a grave site in Myrtle Hill Cemetery in Rome, Georgia, United States, dedicated to a soldier killed in World War I, Private Charles Graves.

The Forum River Center (known locally as The Forum) is a multi-purpose arena and convention center in Rome, Georgia, United States. It seats 2,140 for arena football, up to 3,116 for other sporting events and up to 3,932 for concerts. For trade shows, it can accommodate 21,000 square feet (2,000 m2) of space. Meeting rooms at the Forum total an additional 14,269 square feet (1326 m2) of space. Floyd County owns the Forum. The Forum was previously home to the Georgia Fire indoor football team.

The Nathan Bedford Forrest Monument is a partially dismantled monument at Myrtle Hill Cemetery in Rome, Georgia, United States. It was dedicated in the early 1900s in honor of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It was initially located in the median of Broad Street near Second Street, but was relocated to the cemetery in 1952 due to traffic issues. In the 2020s, the monument came under increased scrutiny, prompting the statue to be removed in 2021. The monument was commissioned by the local chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Forrest had been a popular figure in Rome due to his actions during the war, which included the 1863 capture of Colonel Abel Streight, who had planned to lead to Union army raid across North Georgia. In 1910, another Confederate monument commissioned by the Sons of Confederate Veterans was installed next to the monument. Both were relocated to Myrtle Hill Cemetery, where they remained next to each other and were later incorporated into the Veteran's Plaza, an area of the cemetery centered on the Tomb of the Known Soldier. The monument became the subject of criticism and calls for removal in the early 21st century, especially amidst the George Floyd protests in 2020, due to Forrest's actions in both the Civil War and afterwards, which included a stint as the inaugural grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. In mid-2020, the city commission voted unanimously to relocate the statue, and it was removed from the monument in January 2021. Later that year, the statue was relocated to the Rome Area History Museum.

The South Broad Street Historic District in Rome, Georgia is a 10 acres (4.0 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The listing included 41 contributing buildings.It includes large houses on South Broad Street, built of brick and frame, built during 1880 to 1910.

Atrium Health Floyd is a system of health care providers serving Northwest Georgia and Northeast Alabama since 1942. Located in Rome, Georgia, it is Floyd County’s largest employer with over 3,400 employees. It is a part of the Atrium Health system.

The Floyd County Courthouse in Rome, Georgia, was constructed in between 1892 and 1893. Designed by the Bruce & Morgan architectural firm in the Romanesque Revival style, the courthouse was in use from 1892 until the construction of the new courthouse in 1975, which remains in use as of March 2026. On February 2, 1980, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places under the reference number 80001067. On March 23, 2026, a fire broke out while the courthouse was undergoing renovations. Everyone inside of the building at the time of the fire was evacuated safely, although the building itself was severely damaged. The cause of the fire remains unknown.

The Rome sit-ins were held on March 28, 1963, in Rome, Georgia, United States, to protest racial segregation in the city. The protest involved over 100 African American students from a local high school, who targeted several businesses in downtown Rome that discriminated against black people. 62 of the protestors were arrested, with many convicted of violating city ordinances. According to historian Stephen Tuck, by the end of the year, public facilities in the city were desegregated, thanks to the protest and the influence of the local chapter of the Georgia Council on Human Relations. Private facilities would be desegregated the following year after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.