Newnan is a city in

Metro Atlanta Metro Atlanta, designated by the United States Office of Management and Budget as the Atlanta–Sandy Springs–Alpharetta, GA Metropolitan Statistical Area, is the most populous metropolitan statistical area in the U.S. state of Georgia and the ...

and the county seat of

Coweta County Coweta County is a county located in the west central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is part of Metro Atlanta. As of the 2020 census, the population was 146,158. The county seat is Newnan. Coweta County is included in the Atlanta- ...

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, about southwest of

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. Its population was 42,549 at the 2020 census, 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 Daniel Newnan (1780 – January 16, 1851) was an American politician and military commander in North Carolina and Georgia. Early years and education Born in Salisbury, North Carolina in 1780, Newnan attended the University of North Carolina ...

. 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

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. Newnan was largely untouched by the

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due to its status as a hospital city (for both

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and Confederate troops), and as a result still features much

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. Celebrated architect Kennon Perry designed many of the town's 20th-century homes. During the Atlanta Campaign, Confederate cavalry defeated Union forces at the nearby

Battle of Brown's Mill The Battle of Brown's Mill was fought July 30, 1864, in Coweta County, Georgia, during the Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War. Edward M. McCook's Union cavalry, on a daring raid to sever communications and supply lines in south-centra ...

. On April 23, 1899, a notorious lynching occurred after an African-American man by the name of

Sam Hose Sam Hose (born Samuel Thomas Wilkes; c. 1875 – April 23, 1899) was an African American man who was tortured and murdered by a white lynch mob in Coweta County, Georgia, after being falsely accused of rape by the mob. Personal life ...

(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 American African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of ens ...

s, 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 Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human with malice aforethought. ("The killing of another person without justification or excuse, especially the c ...

''. The film version starred

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Andy Griffith Andy Samuel Griffith (June 1, 1926 – July 3, 2012) was an American actor, comedian, television producer, southern gospel singer and writer whose career spanned seven decades in music and television. Known for his Southern drawl, his characte ...

, and

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. In 1968,

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opened a warehouse in Newnan, which slowly established it as a major hub for distribution in the area. Around this time, the

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attempted to unionize the warehouse, but the attempt was defeated when the employees voted 329 to 201 in favor of remaining union-free. In 2015, the distribution center closed with a loss of 164 jobs.

2021 tornado

In the early morning hours of March 26, 2021, Newnan was directly impacted by a violent EF4 tornado, which caused substantial structural damage and indirectly killed one person. The tornado was one of the strongest on record in Georgia since 1950, and directly impacted the historic downtown area.

Newnan High School Newnan High School (NHS) is a public high school in southwestern Coweta County, Georgia, United States. It is located south of Newnan's historic downtown district. NHS is the oldest of the three Coweta County School System high schools. Founde ...

will be re-built after sustaining serious damage.

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. The museum also houses the Coweta Census Indexes from 1870 to 1920. 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. 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.

Geography

Newnan is located in the center of Coweta County at (33.376411, -84.788648).

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passes through the center of the city, leading northeast to Palmetto and south to

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passes through the eastern side of the city, with access from exits 41, 44, and 47. I-85 leads northeast to downtown

and southwest to

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. U.S. Route 27A leads northwest from the center of Newnan to Carrollton. According to the

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, Newnan has a total area of , of which , or 1.88%, is covered by water.

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.

Transportation

Major roads

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* State Route 34 * State Route 34 Bypass * State Route 16 * State Route 70 *Lower Fayetteville Road *Newnan Crossing Boulevard East *Newnan Crossing Bypass *

* U.S. Route 27 Alternate

Pedestrians and cycling

*LINC

Airports

* Newnan–Coweta County Airport provides chartered air service and flight training.

Railroads

Until the mid-1950s the

Central of Georgia The Central of Georgia Railway started as the Central Rail Road and Canal Company in 1833. As a way to better attract investment capital, the railroad changed its name to Central Rail Road and Banking Company of Georgia. This railroad was cons ...

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. Until 1970, the city was a stop on the Southern Railway's ''

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'' from New Orleans to New York City, via Atlanta. Into the mid-1960s, the Southern's ''Crescent'' and ''

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'' made stops in both directions in Newnan.

Demographics

2020 census

As of the

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, there were 42,549 people, 15,135 households, and 10,013 families residing in the city.

2010 census

As of 2010, Newnan's population was approximately 33,039 and Coweta County's population was approximately 127,400. From 2000 to 2010, the population of Coweta County grew by 42.7% as compared to from 1990 to 2000, when its population grew by 65.7%. Newnan's population grew by 30% from 1990 to 2000 and by 103.4% from 2000 to 2010. The ethnic makeup of the city was 50.8% White, 37.6% African American, 0.3% Native American, 2.8% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 5.6% from some other race, and 2.8% from two or more races. Hispanics or Latinos of any race were 11.4% of the population. Of the 13,783 households, 34.4% had children under 18 living with them, 42.5% were married couples living together, 17.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 33.4% were not families. About 28.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 7.3% had someone living alone who was 65 or older. The average household size was 2.61, and the average family size was 3.17. In the city, the age distribution was 30.8% under 18, 7.8% from 18 to 24, 29.8% from 25 to 44, 21.9% from 45 to 64, and 9.8% who were 65 or older. The median age was 33.3 years. The median income for a household in the city was $50,175 and for a family was $64,615. Males had a median income of $50,753 versus $39,691 for females. The per capita income for the city was $19,081. About 17.3% of families and 22.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 32.0% of those under age 18 and 5.7% of those age 65 or over.

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. The district has 1,164 full-time teachers and over 18,389 students.

Elementary schools

* Arbor Springs Elementary * Arnco-Sargent Elementary * Atkinson Elementary * Brooks Elementary * Canongate Elementary * Eastside Elementary * Elm Street Elementary * Grantville 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

Arnall Middle School The Coweta County School District is the primary education system in Coweta County, Georgia, United States. Its headquarters are an antebellum building on Jackson Street (US 29) at Sprayberry Road in Newnan, Georgia. Coweta County is the 9th-fast ...

* Blake Bass Middle School *

East Coweta Middle School The Coweta County School District is the primary education system in Coweta County, Georgia, United States. Its headquarters are an antebellum building on Jackson Street (US 29) at Sprayberry Road in Newnan, Georgia. Coweta County is the 9th-fa ...

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* Lee Middle School * Madras Middle School * Smokey Road Middle School * The Heritage School (private) * Trinity Christian School (private) *

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High schools

East Coweta High School East Coweta High School (ECHS) is a public high school located in Coweta County, Georgia, United States. It serves about 3,300 students in grades 9 to 12 in the Coweta County School System. It is the second oldest high school in the county. Histo ...

* Northgate High School *Central Educational Center (Chartered Coweta County School System School) *The Pentecostal Church of God Christian Academy (private) * The Heritage School (private) * Trinity Christian School (private)

Higher education

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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 The University of West Georgia is a public university in Carrollton, Georgia. The university offers a satellite campus in Newnan, Georgia, select classes at its Douglasville Center, and off-campus Museum Studies classes at the Atlanta History Ce ...

has a campus located in Newnan, near downtown. This campus currently has two undergraduate programs - bachelor of science in nursing and early childhood education. Newnan is also home to a campus of

West Georgia Technical College West Georgia Technical College (WGTC) is a public community college in Waco, Georgia. It is part of the Technical College System of Georgia and provided education for a seven-county service area that includes Carroll, Coweta, Douglas, Haralson, ...

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

Notable people

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, governor of Georgia (1943–1947) *

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, governor of Georgia (1894–1898) *

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, former

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(NFL) wide receiver with

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, former MLB pitcher, winner of 1987

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and NFL's

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and

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recipient *

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, former All-Pro NFL wide receiver with

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, NFL kicker with

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* Mary Lyndon, first woman to receive degree from

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, Texas Rangers *

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, airline pilot and politician *

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, MLB pitcher for the

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singer-songwriter *

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, pioneer

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Television and movies

* The

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television series '' October Road'' was filmed in Newnan, but is set in the fictional town of Knights Ridge, Massachusetts. *The TV movie ''

'' (1983), based on the book by Margaret Anne Barnes, chronicles actual events that occurred around 1948. * The

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'' was filmed in Newnan from 1991 to 1993. * The 1995 movie ''

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'' was filmed in Newnan. * ''Pet Sematary Two'' (1992) * The 1979 movie ''

The Sheriff and the Satellite Kid ''The Sheriff and the Satellite Kid'' ( it, Uno sceriffo extraterrestre... poco extra e molto terrestre) is a 1979 Italian children's comedy film starring Bud Spencer and child actor Cary Guffey. It was followed by a sequel in 1980, '' Everything ...

'' (Uno sceriffo extraterrestre... poco extra e molto terrestre) with Bud Spencer takes place and was filmed in Newnan. * '' The Walking Dead'' TV series has several scenes filmed in Newnan, including Newnan High School and Sonrise Baptist Church. *The

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'' (2009) *'' The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1'' (2014) *''

The Founder ''The Founder'' is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed by John Lee Hancock and written by Robert Siegel. Starring Michael Keaton as businessman Ray Kroc, the film portrays the story of his creation of the McDonald's fast-food resta ...

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The House with a Clock in Its Walls ''The House with a Clock in Its Walls'' is a 1973 juvenile mystery fiction novel written by John Bellairs and illustrated by Edward Gorey. It is the first in the series of twelve novels featuring the fictional American boy Lewis Barnavelt. P ...

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Lovecraft Country Lovecraft Country is a term coined for the New England setting used by H. P. Lovecraft in many of his weird fiction stories, which combines real and fictitious locations. This setting has since been elaborated on by other writers working in the ...

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City of Newnan official website
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