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Allatoona is an unincorporated community in Bartow County, in the U.S. state of Georgia. The community is located along Allatoona Creek, southeast of Cartersville. Allatoona was also considered both an agricultural community and transportation crossroads established along Allatoona Creek at the southern end of the Appalachian Mountains. One of the first official buildings was a small post office that was active until 1918. Confederate soldiers, in an attempt to fight off the larger number of Union troops, resorted to rocks and hand-to-hand combat to secure the town of Allatoona for the south. The first official recognition that the present dam site on the Etowah River near Cartersville, Georgia, was a prime location for a hydropower project was in a document entitled, "Reports on Examination and Survey of Etowah, Coosa, Tallapoosa and Alabama Rivers", prepared in 1910 by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers. The town of Allatoona was scheduled to be destroyed to allow for the construction of the dam. The construction of the dam took place prior to World War II. When the US joined WWII construction on the dam had to be put on hold. Once the war ended work on the dam was restarted on February 8, 1946; instead of the Army Corps finishing the project they opted for hired laborers to complete the dam. There are several parks used for daily use on Lake Allatoona and the Etowah River. The surrounding land is ideal for families and sees large surges of guests every year. Out of the dozens of parks at Allatoona two of those are handicap accessible so that all patrons can still take part in lake activities.