Sandtown is a neighborhood located southwest of

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Location

Sandtown is largely a residential community in the city of South Fulton. It is a suburb of the City of Atlanta whose borders are shared. The definition of its borders varies as there is an official Sandtown Overlay District established under Fulton County and subsequently adopted by South Fulton, GA when the area was incorporated in 2017 and the informal definition of the area.

History

Sandtown, formerly called Buzzard's Roost, was one of the largest

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villages in the area where Atlanta would develop. After the

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and the government of

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divided the territory into counties, Sandtown ended up in Campbell County, which was later absorbed into

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in 1932 along with

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. The road now known as

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was originally an Indian trail known as the Sandtown Road and ran from the village on the

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near

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east through what became Five Points then to the vicinity of Decatur. This was the oldest settled area in current Fulton County. Atlanta's first doctor, Joshua Gilbert, lived along the Sandtown Road near the present-day Cascade Nature Preserve. The

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used his home as a hospital during the

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. During the

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there were two roads to Sandtown (the current Cascade and Campbelltown roads), which were prominent locations of Union Army operations during the Siege of Atlanta. The Battle of Utoy Creek was fought along the Sandtown (Cascade) Road in Cascade Heights from 1–7 August 1864. Major General

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's headquarters was along the southern Sandtown (Campbellton) Road on 26 August 1864. In 2006 Sandtown applied for annexation to the city of Atlanta. Atlanta put Sandtown's application on hold.Atlanta annexation database, case 2006-006
In 2007 a vote in unincorporated southern Fulton County, including Sandtown, on whether to form a new city of

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, resulted against such a formation, although the merger still occurred a decade later, in 2017.

Transportation

The neighborhood is served by State Route 6 (SR 6; Camp Creek Parkway) and SR 154/ SR 166 (Campbellton Road SW).

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intersects SR 154/SR 166 on the northeastern corner of the commonly accepted boundary.

Community association

The Sandtown Community Association, previously known as the Sandtown Homeowners Association, is a registered nearly 20-year-old community advocacy organization. It is a voluntary community-based group that addresses issues regarding zonings, residential/commercial development, land use and education.

External links

Sandtown Community Association

References

{{authority control Unincorporated communities in Georgia (U.S. state) Native American history of Georgia (U.S. state) Unincorporated communities in Fulton County, Georgia Unincorporated communities in the Atlanta metropolitan area