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 about this time that the Cherokee people were forced off their land and removed to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River on the Trail of Tears
Trail of Tears
Trail of Tears
Powder Springs, Georgia