Dallas-Acworth Highway, formerly known as GA 381 is located in Paulding County. The route, now C.R. 710, -is a 7-mile long, two-lane route connecting GA 6 Business (Old U.S. 278) in Dallas to GA 92 in the Roxana community. A county with many civil war relics and battlefields, the Picketts Mill State Historic Site is located near the highway.

Old GA 381 remains a major route with many future needs and costs, and consideration should be given to restore the designation in place of removing the completely local GA 120 Connector west of Hiram, a route that was basically replaced by the U.S. 278 by-pass of Dallas in 1992.

Once a highway of major status, GA 381 fell by the wayside in 1992. The route was of such importance, in fact, that GA 381 had originally been part of GA 92. Over a course of several years, GA 92 gradually began to be relocated east along two different routes to its present-day alignment, resulting in the bannering and eventual renumbering of the former highway.

Up until 1966, GA 92 followed what is now Dallas-Acworth Highway to U.S. 278 just east of downtown Dallas. It was in that year that GA 92 was relocated further east of Dallas along present Bobo Road between the New Hope Community and U.S. 278/GA 6 (now GA 6 Business) where the routes used to form a triangle with the tip where present-day Marietta Highway (GA 120) is. This triangle intersetion formed by the route intersected with U.S. 278 to the east of the intersection with GA 120. Today, it is no longer possible to cross there.

Note in 1964, on the left, that GA 92 extends into Dallas, Bobo Road is shown as a county road and GA 92 overlaps with U.S. 278 from Dallas to Hiram. The 1968 map on the right then shows Bobo Road as GA 92 and the old route as GA 92 Spur. Also note GA 176, connecting to the highway in New Hope, which later becomes GA 92 Connector and GA 120 Connector before being fully decommissioned.

The result of this first of two major changes was the birth of banner route GA 92 Spur along the three mile by-passed portion of Old GA 92 into Dallas. However, an even bigger change was still to come in 1972. That year, four more miles were added to the length of GA 92 Spur as the Bobo Road alignment was rejected in favor of former County Line Road, now Hiram-Acworth Highway and current GA 92. The first time that GA 92 no longer overlapped U.S. 278 since it was first extended to Acworth in the 1940's, the twice-relocated GA 92 now directly connected to the existing route south of U.S. 278 in Hiram. As a result, GA 92 Spur became a lengthy route for a "spur". It was several years later that GA 92 Spur became GA 381.

By 1973 in the first map, Paulding and western Cobb Counties were overwhelmed with state highways. GA 92 Spur extends seven miles with GA 92 on new alignment. GA 176 is also relocated with the old alignment as GA 92 Connector. By 1981 (second map), the only changes are the redesignation of the two banner routes of GA 92 as GA 381 and GA 120 Connector.

On April 3, 1977, a sad fate occured along this highway when tragedy struck as a DC-9 jet liner crashed into the highway itself in New Hope, killing several people. This incident remains etched in the minds of local residents. It is understood that a store was also destroyed in the crash.

In 1980, GA 381 was born along the route of GA 92 Spur. A short and illustrious run, the highway existed as GA 381 only for 12 years. By 1992, GA 381 quietly disappeared from the map as a relocation of U.S. 278 to a by-pass in 1992 around Dallas added mileage to the system, resulting in a "mileage swap" with the former U.S. 278 through Dallas. With the change, GA 6 Business was added along the Old U.S. 278 route and GA 381 was, unfortunately, turned over to Paulding County.

By 1997, GA 381, along with several other area highways, are all fully decommissioned. Old GA 176, which was later a Connector for both 92 and 120, was decommissioned in 1982.