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<Alhambra-Home on the Hill

Alhambra (the antebellum columned house) was built in 1832 by Major Philip Walker Hemphill, a planter from Scotland. The land was deep in Cherokee Indian Nation and is now known as the oldest house in Floyd County.

HISTORY: The process for building the house was difficult due to the location of the land he wanted. The material he needed to build the house, such as logs, were floated down the Coosa River on steam boats. Major Philip lived in that house with three other planters, Colonel Daniel R. Mitchell from Canton, Colonel Zachariah B. Hargrove of Cassville, and Colonel William Smith of Cave Spring. The four of them chose a name for the town by putting different options in a hat then drew out the name “Rome”. After Major Philip’s wife died he left Rome and moved to Mississippi to start over. He sold the property to William T. Price, and by 1877 the property had passed through many different owners (most famous in Rome and in other areas). One of the names given to the property was DeSoto Park because of Hernando DeSoto. DeSoto camped at this property during his exploration of Georgia.

 Darlington’s Home: In 1905 a merchant named John Paul Cooper and Alice Allgood Cooper founded Darlington and purchased the property in 1912. From then on every president of Darlington has lived there doing much remodeling to the house. So much remodeling has been put into the house, that it is hard to tell its original state.