 From Cedartown, the route included Rockmart and Taylorsville before terminating at Cartersville and a connection with the Western and Atlantic Railroad.The line that would become the East and West Railroad of Alabama actually began at the Georgia end, with the Cartersville and Van Wert Railroad, chartered in 1868 to build a broad gauge route from Cartersville to Prior, near the Alabama state line.The entire route was graded and of track was laid to Taylorsville, Georgia before being reorganized as the Cherokee Railroad in 1870.