Newnan, Georgia

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Newnan is a city in and the county seat of Coweta County, Georgia, United States, about Script error: No such module "convert". southwest of Atlanta. Its population was 42,549 at the 2020 census,[1] up from 33,039 in 2010.

History

Newnan was established as county seat of Coweta County (replacing the defunct town of Bullsboro) in 1828, and was named for North Carolinian General Daniel Newnan. It quickly became a prosperous magnet for lawyers, doctors, other professionals, and merchants. Much of Newnan's prosperity was due to its thriving cotton industry, which relied on slavery.

Newnan was largely untouched by the Civil War due to its status as a hospital city (for both Union and Confederate troops), and as a result still features much antebellum architecture.[2] During the Atlanta campaign, Confederate cavalry defeated Union forces at the nearby Battle of Brown's Mill. Subsequently, architect Kennon Perry (1890–1954) designed many of the town's early 20th-century homes.

On April 23, 1899, a lynching occurred after an African-American man by the name of Sam Hose (born Tom Wilkes) was accused of killing his boss, Alfred Cranford. Hose was abducted from police custody, paraded through Newnan, tortured, and burned alive just north of town by a lynch mob of roughly 2,000 citizens of Coweta County.

Newnan was also host to the trial in 1948 of wealthy landowner John Wallace, the first White man in the South to be condemned to death by the testimony of African Americans, two field hands who were made to help with burning the body of murdered white sharecropper Wilson Turner. These events were portrayed in the novel Murder in Coweta County.

In 1968, Kmart opened a warehouse in Newnan, which slowly established it as a major hub for distribution in the area.[3] The International Brotherhood of Teamsters attempted to unionize the warehouse, but the attempt was defeated when the employees voted 329 to 201 in favor of remaining union-free.[4] In 2015, the distribution center closed with a loss of 164 jobs.[5]

2021 tornado

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Geography

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Climate

The climate is moderate with an average temperature of 64.3 °F (45.8° in the winter and 79.1° in the summer). The average annual rainfall is 51.84 inches.

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Demographics

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Newnan racial composition as of 2020[10]
Race Number Percent
White (non-Hispanic) 21,206 49.84%
Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 13,033 30.63%
Hispanic or Latino 4,521 10.63%
Asian 1,879 4.42%
Other/mixed 1,819 4.28%
Native American 69 0.16%
Pacific Islander 22 0.05%

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 42,549 people, 15,135 households, and 10,013 families residing in the city.

Arts and culture

The city is home to one of the few Georgia counties with a museum that focuses mainly on African-American history. The Coweta County African American Heritage Museum and Research Center, or Caswell House, was opened in July 2003 in a donated mill village house once owned by Ruby Caswell. The museum sits on Farmer Street on an old, unmarked slave cemetery. It has collected hundreds of family genealogical records by interviewing residents and going through the census records.[11] The museum also houses the Coweta Census Indexes from 1870 to 1920.[12]

The first Black library in the county was the Sara Fisher Brown Library. Built in the 1950s, the library has since been converted into the Community Action For Improvement Center.[13]

The Farmer Street Cemetery is the largest slave cemetery in the South, and may be the largest undisturbed one in the nation. It is within the city limits of Newnan.

The Boots On the Ground (song) is strongly associated with the Boots On the Ground soul line dance created by Newnan native Jaterrious Trésean Little, aka Trè Little.[14]

Education

Coweta County School District

The Coweta County School District holds preschool to grade 12, and consists of 19 elementary schools, seven middle schools, and three high schools.[15] The district has 1,164 full-time teachers and over 18,389 students.[16]

Elementary schools

  • Arbor Springs Elementary
  • Arnco-Sargent Elementary
  • Atkinson Elementary
  • Brooks Elementary
  • Canongate Elementary
  • Eastside Elementary
  • Elm Street Elementary
  • Glanton Elementary
  • Jefferson Parkway Elementary
  • Moreland Elementary
  • Newnan Crossing Elementary
  • Northside Elementary
  • Poplar Road Elementary
  • Ruth Hill Elementary
  • Thomas Crossroads Elementary
  • Western Elementary
  • Welch Elementary
  • White Oak Elementary
  • Willis Road Elementary
  • The Heritage School (private)
  • Trinity Christian School (private)

Middle schools

High schools

Higher education

Mercer University has a regional academic center in Newnan. The center opened in 2010, and offers programs through the university's College of Continuing and Professional Studies.

The University of West Georgia has a campus located in Newnan, near downtown. This campus currently has two undergraduate programs - Bachelor of Science in nursing and early childhood education.[17]

Newnan is also home to a campus of West Georgia Technical College.[18]

College Temple, a non-sectarian women's school, operated during the period of 1854–1888.[19]

Transportation

Major roads

Public transit

The public trolley operates between downtown and The Forum at Ashley Park.[20] In addition, the city is served by route 453 of the GRTA Xpress bus service, which operates between the Newnan Park and Ride and the Lakewood/Fort McPherson MARTA rail station.[21]

Airports

Railroads

Until the mid-1950s the Central of Georgia operated two trains daily in each direction, through Newnan from Atlanta to Columbus, in its Man O' War service. The Central continued a single Man O' War train until 1971 when Amtrak took over most interstate passenger service.[23][24][25][26] Until 1970, the city was a stop on the Southern Railway's Crescent from New Orleans to New York City, via Atlanta.[27][28] Into the mid-1960s, the Southern's Crescent and Piedmont Limited made stops in both directions in Newnan.[29]

Notable people

Television and movies

References

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