Carrollton

City in northwestern Georgia, USA, 61 km/38 mi west-southwest of Atlanta; seat of Carroll County; population (1990) 16,000. Settled in the 1820s, it has always been a trade and processing centre for the region's agriculture. Local industries turn out textiles, wire and metal products, and sound recordings.

West Georgia College (1933) is here.

Carrollton

Largely residential section of southwestern (uptown) New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, along the Mississippi River, 5 km/3 mi west of Jackson Square. It became part of New Orleans City in 1874.

Settled after the War of 1812, it was connected with New Orleans by rail in 1835. Tulane and Loyola universities and Audubon Park lie in the south, and Xavier University just to the north.

Carrollton

18th-century estate near Frederick, Maryland, USA, established by Charles Carroll, land agent to Lord Baltimore. Its name was used by his grandson, Charles Carroll of Carrollton (1737–1832), one of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence, and reappears in various Maryland sites.

Carrollton

City in Denton and Dallas Counties, northeastern Texas, USA, 24 km/15 mi north-northwest of downtown Dallas; population (1990) 82,200. The city has doubled in population as a residential suburb of Dallas in each decade since the 1960s.

Established in 1872 on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad, after an 1844 founding slightly to the southeast, the city was chiefly agricultural until the 1960s.