CANTON - The Cherokee County Board of Education has approved the $7.7 million purchase of 88-acres that could see Cherokee High School move from the west side of Canton to the east side later this decade. When the current building at 930 Marietta Highway opened in the 1950s, Cherokee High was the only high school in Cherokee County, which had a population of less than 25,000 at the time. Since then, five other high schools, along with new middle and elementary schools have been built as the county population has grown by more than 10 times to nearly 270,000 today. The land is north of Martin ...