Dixie Highway 90-Mile Yard Sale Ranks Top Three of Mega Yard Sales; this year's event is June 7-9

Media release: The Dixie Highway 90-Mile Yard Sale has been chosen NO.3 in "Reader's Favorites Miles-Long Yard Sales" in the current edition of Flea Market Style magazine.  The local sale ranked behind 127 Corridor World's Longest Yard Sale and the annual Peaches to the Beaches Yard Sale.  These top three of twenty sales honored by readers are all held entirely in, or pass through, Georgia.

Regina Wheeler, Deputy Director of the Cartersville-Bartow County Convention & Visitors Bureau, has watched the sale grow annually from its beginning in 2006.  While Wheeler believes that "the present economy drives everyone to look for bargains," she said "it is magazines like Flea Market Style and popular shows like the History channel's American Pickers that have brought new generations to mega-yard sales like the Dixie Highway."  According to Wheeler visitors come from across the southeast to buy and sell on the Dixie Highway.  "Every year people begin calling our Visitor Center in December to get the dates on their calendar," she concluded.

Set for June 7-9, 2013, sales will take place in Ringgold, Tunnel Hill, Rocky Face, Dalton, Resaca, Calhoun, Adairsville, Cassville, Cartersville, Emerson, Acworth, and Kennesaw.  Yard sale hours vary but most sales are open daily from 7 a.m. to dusk.  See www.facebook.com/dixiehighway90mileyardsale for route maps, yard sale spaces for rent and to scope out what's for sale.

 

YARD SALE HISTORY

The Dixie Highway 90-mile Yard Sale was created in 2006 to celebrate the simpler times and historic communities along the Dixie Highway in northwest Georgia.  In 2007, the Georgia Dixie Highway Association and Arcadia Publishing produced a souvenir book, North Georgia's Dixie Highway, that features more than 200 early photographs and memories of the Dixie Highway, arranged in five chapters dedicated to each of the participating northwest Georgia counties: Catoosa, Whitfield, Gordon, Bartow and Cobb.  In 2008, coordinators officially added Friday as a sale day, making this an annual three-day event on the first full weekend each June. 

 

About the Dixie Highway

When Carl Fisher, an enterprising northerner conceived the idea of the nation's first interstate in 1912, he had the success of several personal business ventures in mind ranging from Michigan to Florida.  But it was the enterprising nature of the south that proved the Dixie Highway route would be a lasting success for all.  Even today in the shadows of its descendent, Interstate 75, the Dixie Highway is still in business thanks to Georgia's Dixie Highway Association. 

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