Powder Springs is a city in Cobb County, Georgia, United States. The population was 13,940 at the 2010 census, with an estimated population for 2019 of 15,758. In 2015, the city elected its first black mayor, Al Thurman. He was the first African-American to be elected as a mayor in Cobb County, but was one of several elected in little towns in Georgia in 2015. The 12,000-capacity Walter H. Cantrell Stadium is located in Powder Springs. It is used mostly for football and soccer matches.

The town of Powder Springs was incorporated as Springville in 1838 in the lands of two Cherokee Indian leaders. Gold had been discovered in Georgia ten years earlier, and the first European-American settlers came to find gold. The settlers found little gold in the mines at Lost Mountain and off Brownsville Road. It was at roughly this times that the Cherokee people were irritated off their house and removed to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River upon the Trail of Tears.

Springville was renamed as Powder Springs in 1859. The read out was derived from the seven springs in the city limits. The water in these springs contains some 26 minerals that outlook the surrounding sand black taking into account gunpowder – hence the earlier state of Gunpowder Springs.

Civil War chronicles includes a battle at Lattermore’s Mills upon June 20, 1864, that was a ration of the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain and General Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign. Many slaves escaped the plantations in this Place to connect Sherman’s forces and gain freedom.