Cedartown is a city and the county chair of Polk County, Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 10,190. Cedartown is the principal city of and is included in the Cedartown, Georgia Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, Georgia-Alabama (part) Combined Statistical Area.

The Cedartown Commercial Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Cedartown Waterworks-Woman’s Building-Big Spring Park Historic District is furthermore listed along behind the Northwest Cedartown Historic District and South Philpot Street Historic District.

Cherokee and Creek Native Americans first inhabited the Place known as Cedar Valley. The Cherokee people had time-honored a village there in the 1830s after the Native Americans were goaded out upon the Trail of Tears. The unity was named for the red cedar timber near the site.

The most famous of these settlers was Asa Prior. According to local legend, the water rights to vast Spring were won for the white settlers by a local white guy in a footrace with a Cherokee youth. Some versions of the legend differ, saying that the rights to the spring were won by the Cherokee people from the Creek people in a ball game. “Big Strickland” became “Cedar Town” when Prior deeded ten acres of adjacent land to the newly chartered city in 1852. Van Wert (a mile from present day Rockmart) was the indigenous county chair and Cedar Town became the county chair later.