The Cedartown High School Bulldogs: The History of a Georgia Football Tradition

William Austin has deep-seated roots in Cedartown. Three of his great-grandfathers enlisted in the Confederate army in Cedartown and served the duration of the war. As a youth, William washed cars and learned auto mechanics working for Bill Byrom at Byrom's Auto Center on the corner of West Avenue and College Street. As a delivery boy for Hunt's Drug Store, he knew the location of every street in town and most of the residents. While serving a four-year enlistment in the U.S. Air Force, he followed the Bulldogs by subscribing to the Cedartown Standard in places as far away as Korea. It In 1989, William and his family settled in Aiken, South Carolina.