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South Fulton is a city in Fulton County, Georgia, United States in the Atlanta metropolitan area.It was incorporated in 2017 from parts of southwest Fulton County and includes the communities of Red Oak, Cooks Crossing, Stonewall, Fife, Ben Hill, Sandtown, Cliftondale, Ono, Cedar Grove, Boat Rock/Dry Pond, Maude, Lester, Enon, Welcome All, Peters Woods, and part of Campbellton.
History Main article: History of Atlanta For a chronological guide, see Timeline of Atlanta. Native American settlements For thousands of years prior to the arrival of European settlers in North Georgia, the indigenous Creek people and their ancestors inhabited the area. Standing Peachtree, a Creek village where Peachtree Creek flows into the Chattahoochee River, was the closest Native ...
College Park is a city in Fulton and Clayton counties, Georgia, United States, adjacent to the southern boundary of the city of Atlanta. As of the 2020 census, the population was 13,930. Georgia International Convention Center and part of Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport are located in the city.
Hapeville (Abbr: HVL), established 1891, is a city in Fulton County, Georgia, United States.Hapeville is 2.5 square miles wide and located inside I-285 between the city of Atlanta to its north and the Atlanta International Airport to its south.
Metro Atlanta, designated by the United States Office of Management and Budget as the Atlanta–Sandy Springs–Roswell metropolitan statistical area, is the most populous metropolitan statistical area in the U.S. state of Georgia and the sixth-largest in the United States, based on the July 1, 2023 metropolitan area population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Widespread farms produce peanuts, corn, and soybeans across middle and south Georgia. The state is the number one producer of pecans in the world, thanks to Naomi Chapman Woodroof regarding peanut breeding, with the region around Albany in southwest Georgia being the center of Georgia's pecan production. Gainesville in northeast Georgia touts ...
The airport is located 10 mi (16 km) south of the Downtown Atlanta district. It is named after former Atlanta mayors William B. Hartsfield and Maynard Jackson . [4] [5] ATL covers 4,700 acres (19 km 2 ) of land and has five parallel runways which are aligned in an east-west direction.
Atlanta timeline Seal of the City of Atlanta History Before 1820 1762 Standing Peachtree, Native American trading post first mentioned 1820 1821 Creek Indians cede land that is now Metro Atlanta 1823 Decatur founded 1826 Land lottery to distribute lots in the area which is now Atlanta 1830 1830 Whitehall Tavern built at today's West End 1836 Western & Atlantic Railroad approved 1839 John ...