Situated in northern Georgia’s Fulton County, John’s Creek is a suburb of Atlanta. It lies to the northeast of the state capital, roughly 25 miles away. Ranked as one of the best cities to live in by USA Today, the history of Johns Creek as a city (rather than a tributary of the Chattahoochee River) …
The Georgia city of Brookhaven is a suburb of Atlanta, a little northeast of the state capital. Although it was incorporated as a city no earlier than 2012, European settlement began in 1810 on former native American land, and has structures dating back to 1830. The area’s farmland slowly became more and more residential, with …
Smyrna lies just a mile northwest of Atlanta’s city limits and 15 mile from downtown Atlanta. Even so, the city is proud of its welcoming ‘small town’ atmosphere. This area of northern Georgia was first settled by white Americans in 1832, but didn’t become known by the name of Smyrna until 40 years later. The …
Welcoming Albany is located in southwest Georgia, 187 miles south of the state capital of Atlanta. Part of the American ‘Black Belt’ of richly fertile soils, it is surrounded by agricultural land that once made cotton plantations common. Founded in 1836 after the removal of Creek native Americans, it became an important port on the …
Lying roughly 75 miles northeast of Atlanta, Athens sits on the edge of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Rich in southern charm, it has a leafy suburban feel even in its Victorian-era downtown area. A town since at least 1806 (although its police force didn’t come into being until 80 years later), Athens grew rich off …
With no little green men in sight (that Roswell lies in New Mexico), Roswell Georgia abounds in sunshine and southern charm all the same. For all intents and purposes a suburb of Atlanta to the south, Roswell is separated from the state capital by the Chattahoochee River. Oozing affluent tree-lined streets as a result of …
Rome is the largest city in Floyd County, which sits on the state border with Alabama, and also the largest in the whole of northwest Georgia. Located in the foothills of the famed Appalachian Mountains, its abundance of waterways first attracted Creek and Cherokee peoples. European settlers arrived in the 1830s, forcing native Americans from …
Valdosta is a city situated in the flat coastal plain of southern Georgia, just a few miles from the state’s border with Florida. It was incorporated in 1860, just a few months before the outbreak of the American Civil War. At some distance from the fighting, it developed quickly, and in 1910 was calculated to …
Located in northern Georgia, Marietta is a city that is also one of Atlanta’s largest suburbs. Although the state capital is just 20 miles to the southeast, Marietta is rich in history and culture itself, particularly from the state’s antebellum and Civil War periods. Spreading out from a historic main square and courthouse from the …
Dunwoody is northern suburb of Atlanta which became a separate city in 2008. However, European settlement began as early as the 1830s. The area that became Dunwoody took its name – albeit spelled differently – from a Major Charles Dunwody who fought with the Confederate Army of the slave-owning southern states during the American Civil …