Duluth is a city in

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. Located north of

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, it is approximately northeast of

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. As of the 2020 census, Duluth had a population of 31,873, and the United States Census Bureau estimated the population to be 31,864 as of 2021. This Atlanta suburb is home to

Gwinnett Place Mall Gwinnett Place Mall is a largely vacant shopping mall located in the Pleasant Hill Road corridor of Duluth, Georgia, in the United States. The mall is almost identical to Town Center at Cobb. For the first 16 years, Gwinnett Place was the leading ...

, the Gwinnett Civic and Cultural Center,

Gas South Arena The Gas South Arena (originally known as the Gwinnett Civic Center Arena, later known as The Arena at Gwinnett Center and Infinite Energy Arena) is an indoor arena in Duluth, Georgia. It is located approximately northeast of Atlanta. The arena ...

, Hudgens Center for the Arts, and the Red Clay Theater. It is also home to

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–Duluth, an 81-bed hospital constructed in 2006, as well as GMC's Glancy Campus, a 30-bed facility located near downtown. The agricultural manufacturer

AGCO AGCO Corporation is an American agricultural machinery manufacturer founded in 1990 and with its headquarters in Duluth, Georgia, United States. AGCO designs, produces and sells tractors, combines, foragers, hay tools, self-propelled sprayers, ...

is based in Duluth.

History

Duluth was originally

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territory. When Duluth was established in the early 19th century, it was primarily forested land occupied by tribespeople. An Indian trail, called Old Peachtree Road by the settlers, was extended through the area during the

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to connect Fort Peachtree in present-day

with Fort Daniel near present-day

Dacula Dacula ( ) is a city in Gwinnett County, Georgia, United States. It is an exurb of Atlanta, located approximately northeast of downtown. The population as of the 2010 census was 4,442, and the U.S. Census Bureau estimated the population to be 6, ...

. When Gwinnett County was established in 1818, white settlement of the area accelerated. Cotton merchant Evan Howell constructed a road connecting his

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at the

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with Old Peachtree Road, creating Howell's Cross Roads. The settlement later became known as "Howell's Crossing". Howell was the grandfather of Atlanta Mayor Evan P. Howell and great-grandfather of ''

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'' publisher

Clark Howell Clark Howell (September 21, 1863 – November 14, 1936) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American newspaper man and politician from the state of Georgia. For fifty-three years, he was editorial executive and owner of ''The Atlanta Constitution ...

Railroad era and new name

Howell's Crossing was renamed "Duluth" in 1871 after Congress funded a north–south railroad line into the community. It was named after the city of

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. The Midwestern city had gotten its own railroad connection not long before, which had prompted Rep. J. Proctor Knott, a

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Democrat, to make a speech in Congress mocking the project as wasteful. That speech drew national attention. According to contemporary reports, Evan P. Howell himself jokingly suggested the name change in a speech about the arrival of railroad service in the Georgia town. (Duluth, Minnesota, is named for

Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut ( 1639 – 25 February 1710) was a French soldier and explorer who is the first European known to have visited the area where the city of Duluth, Minnesota, United States, is now located and the head of Lake Superi ...

(1636–1710), a French captain and explorer of the upper Midwest, who negotiated peace between the Chippewa and the

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nation.) The railroad encouraged the growth of Duluth's economy. A schoolhouse was built in 1871 on the site of what is now Coleman Middle School (formerly Duluth Middle School and Duluth Elementary School). The first

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church was organized in 1871, and the first

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congregation formed in 1886. Both churches continue today at new locations along State Route 120. The Bank of Duluth was charted in 1904, followed by the Farmers and Merchants Bank in 1911. Neither survived the

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. In 1922, Duluth elected Georgia's first female mayor,

Alice Harrell Strickland Alice Harrell Strickland (June 24, 1859 – September 8, 1947) was an American politician and activist from Duluth, Georgia. Strickland was the first woman to be elected mayor in the U.S. state of Georgia. She was also known for philanthropic wor ...

. She donated of land for a "community forest" and began efforts to conserve land for public recreation.

Post-war and modern era

Duluth grew rapidly in the 1970s and 1980s, along with the rest of Gwinnett County. Georgia Governor

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became a resident of Duluth in 1983 after leaving office, moving to the Sweet Bottom Plantation subdivision developed by Scott Hudgens. A major revitalization of the Duluth downtown area was undertaken in the early 21st century. Development along Sugarloaf Parkway has continued with the construction of the Gwinnett Arena near the Gwinnett Convention Center. In much of the 20th century, when Gwinnett County was still rural, Duluth was known in the area as being one of the few small towns with its own hospital, Joan Glancy Memorial Hospital. Consequently, many older residents of the area who call other towns home were actually born in Duluth. Joan Glancy was replaced with

Gwinnett Medical Center Northside Hospital Gwinnett (formerly Gwinnett Medical Center-Lawrenceville) is a hospital with 353 acute care beds in Lawrenceville, Georgia, United States. The hospital was previously the main operation of the overall Gwinnett Medical Center syst ...

– Duluth in 2006. The site of the old Joan Glancy hospital is now GMC's Glancy Campus, home to the Glancy Rehabilitation Center, the Duluth location of GMC's Diabetes & Nutrition Education Center and the Duluth location of GMC's Center for Sleep Disorder. The city made national headlines twice in 2005. In March,

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Courthouse shooting suspect

Brian Nichols Brian Gene Nichols (born December 10, 1971) is a rapist and murderer known for his escape and killing spree in the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta, Georgia, on March 11, 2005. Nichols was on trial for rape when he escaped custody and murde ...

was captured in a Duluth apartment after holding a woman hostage. In April, local resident

Jennifer Wilbanks The runaway bride case concerns Jennifer Carol Wilbanks (born February 28, 1973), an American woman who ran away from home on April 26, 2005, to avoid her wedding with John Mason, her fiancé, on April 30. Her disappearance from Duluth, Georgia, ...

was reported missing a few days before her planned wedding to John Mason. She was found a few days later in

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, where she admitted to having lied about being

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Geography

Duluth is located in the northeastern section of the

Atlanta metropolitan area 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 ...

. Approximately from

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, the city lies in the west-central section of Gwinnett County, bounded to the north by the

(which also acts as the county line), northeast by Suwanee, south by unincorporated land, and west by Berkeley Lake.Duluth location map
''City of Duluth Department of Planning'' Retrieved 2009-08-28 Unincorporated portions of Forsyth County use a Duluth ZIP code despite being outside Duluth city limits in a different county. A significant part of the nearby city of

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in Fulton County shares at least one ZIP code with Duluth. Duluth has a

humid subtropical climate A humid subtropical climate is a zone of climate characterized by hot and humid summers, and cool to mild winters. These climates normally lie on the southeast side of all continents (except Antarctica), generally between latitudes 25° and 40° ...

(''Cfa''.) The monthly averages range from 41.0 °F in January to 78.3° in July

The local

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is 7b.

Demographics

2020 census

As of the

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, there were 31,873 people, 11,202 households, and 7,634 families residing in the city.

2010 census

As of the

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of 2010, there were 26,600 people, 10,555 households, and 6,872 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 11,313 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 48.7%

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, 20.2%

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, 0.4% Native American, 22.3%

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, 0.1%

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, 5.2% from

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, and 3.1% from two or more races.

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of any race were 14.0% of the population. There were 10,555 households, out of which 33.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 46.6% were

married couples Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognized union between people called spouses. It establishes rights and obligations between them, as well as between them and their children, and between t ...

living together, 14.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 34.9% were non-families. 28.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 5.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.52 and the average family size was 3.10. In age 18 and over, for every 100 females, there were 87.9 males. The average income for a household in the city was $60,088, and the median income for a family was $69,437. Males had a median income of $46,683 versus $34,334 for females. The

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for the city was $29,185. About 3.0% of families and 4.4% of the population were below the

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, including 4.8% of those under age 18 and 3.2% of those age 65 or over.

Economy

Businesses

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Asbury Automotive Group Asbury Automotive Group is a company based in Atlanta that operates auto dealerships in various parts of the United States. Founded in 1995, it was ranked No. 360 on the 2022 Fortune 500 list. With 148 dealerships and 198 franchises representi ...

* Barco *

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* Datapath, Inc. (formerly

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Satellite Communication Systems, Inc.) *

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SATCOM Tech (formerly) *

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* Merial Animal Health *

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Tourism

Downtown Duluth boasts a thriving business district; There are many shops and dining choices to choose from. Every year the city hosts an annual Fall Festival on the last weekend of every September, which is held in the town center. The

Southeastern Railway Museum The Southeastern Railway Museum ( initialised SRM, AAR code SMRX) is a railroad museum located in Duluth, Georgia, in suburban Atlanta. The museum was founded in 1970 by the Atlanta Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society. There are o ...

is located in Duluth, and is Georgia's official transportation museum.

Sports

The

Atlanta Gladiators The Atlanta Gladiators are a professional minor league ice hockey team based in Duluth, Georgia. The Gladiators play in the South Division of the ECHL's Eastern Conference. They play their home games at Gas South Arena, approximately northeast of ...

, formerly the Gwinnett Gladiators, of the

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, a professional minor league

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team, plays in the

, which opened in 2003 in an unincorporated area of Gwinnett County with a Duluth zip code. The Sugarloaf Country Club golf course hosted the

AT&T Classic The Atlanta Classic was a golf tournament on the PGA Tour, a regular stop in suburban Atlanta for over four decades. It was founded in 1967, although previous events dating to 1934 are included in the PGA Tour's past winners list. AT&T was the last ...

, a

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golf tournament from 1997 to 2008. The club currently hosts the

Greater Gwinnett Championship The Mitsubishi Electric Classic is a golf tournament on the PGA Tour Champions in Georgia in the greater Atlanta area. It debuted in 2013 as the "Greater Gwinnett Championship," and has been played each year at TPC Sugarloaf in Duluth, a northeast ...

, a

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golf tournament that initiated in 2013. Duluth is also home of the

Georgia Swarm The Georgia Swarm are a box lacrosse team in the East Division of the National Lacrosse League. They have been playing at the 13,000-seat Gas South Arena in Duluth, Georgia since their 2016 season. Originally formed as the 2002 expansion Montre ...

of the

National Lacrosse League The National Lacrosse League (NLL) is a men's professional box lacrosse league in North America. The league is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The NLL currently has fifteen teams: ten in the United Stat ...

since 2016 and shares the Gas South Arena with the Gladiators. Unincorporated Gwinnett County is home to the Berkeley Hills Country Club, Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce, Partnership Gwinnett and the 1818 Club, a private dining club.

Parks and recreation

Citizens have a wide variety of recreational activities to choose from. The city maintains 7 parks as well as the Festival Center. Some of the sports offered are Tennis, Soccer, Ballet, Zumba. Swimming is available only 3.9 miles from city hall at West Gwinnett Aquatic Center. The city parks include: *Bunten Road Park * Chattapoochee Dog Park *Church Street Park *

Rogers Bridge Park Rogers Bridge Park is a riverfront city park and dog parkChattapoochee Dog Park in Duluth, Georgia. It is a 16.98 acre park located in the northwestern quadrant of Duluth. The park is a few blocks north of Peachtree Industrial Boulevard on Rogers B ...

*Scott Hudgens Park *Taylor Park *W.P. Jones Park *Shorty Howell Park

Government

The City of Duluth is governed by a mayor and five city council members, who together appoint the city administrator and city clerk. Elections are held every two years, in the odd-numbered years, and the mayor and council members are elected for staggered four-year terms. The mayor of Duluth is Nancy Harris, the former principal of B.B. Harris Elementary School and Suwanee Elementary School. Harris Elementary is named for her father, B.B. Harris, also a former principal and Gwinnett County School Superintendent. The city is represented in the Georgia General Assembly by Senator Zahra Karinshak, Representative Bonnie Rich and Representative Pedro "Pete "Marin who together form the city's legislative delegation.

Education

Gwinnett County Public Schools The Gwinnett County Public School District is a school district operating in Gwinnett County, Georgia, United States. GCPS is the largest school system in Georgia,Duluth High School Duluth High School is a public secondary school in Duluth, a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It provides education for grades 9-12 and is operated by Gwinnett County Public Schools. The school was built in 1958 and serves Duluth, Ber ...

(Duluth)

Private schools

* Atlanta Adventist Academy (Duluth) * Duluth Junior Academy (Duluth) * Duluth Montessori School (Duluth) * Notre Dame Academy (Duluth)

Public libraries

Gwinnett County Public Library The Gwinnett County Public Library is located in unincorporated Gwinnett County, Georgia, United States, northeast of Atlanta. The library currently has 15 branches throughout the county and employs an interlibrary loan system for those with a vali ...

operates the Duluth Branch in Duluth.

Infrastructure

Transportation

Roads and expressways

Duluth holds the title of being a railroad city. Trains carrying both passengers and cargo can be seen at all times of the day. In addition, Duluth is a heavily car-dependent suburb. A number of collector roads distribute traffic around both incorporated and unincorporated areas of the city, some of the most important being

Buford Highway Buford Highway (also Buford Highway Corridor), a.k.a. the DeKalb International Corridor, and in the 1990-2000's as the DeKalb County, Georgia, DeKalb County International Village district, is a community northeast of the city of Atlanta, celebra ...

(), Duluth Highway (), Sugarloaf Parkway, and Pleasant Hill Road. Apart from Buford Highway, these roads bring traffic to

, connecting the Duluth area to central Atlanta about away.

Transit systems

Gwinnett County Transit Gwinnett County Transit or GCT is the bus public transit system in Gwinnett County, Georgia, United States, one of metro Atlanta's three most populous suburban counties. (The others are Cobb County, which operates CobbLinc, and Clayton County ...

serves the city. Through the 1960s, the Southern Railway ran passenger trains with a stop in Duluth. The local #36 Atlanta - Washington made a flagstop on the northbound trip. The local #35 ''Salisbury - Atlanta'' and the ''Peach Queen'' (Washington - Atlanta) made stops on their southbound trip.

Pedestrians and cycling

The

Western Gwinnett Bikeway The Western Gwinnett Bikeway (also West Gwinnett Bikeway) is a multi-use trail under construction along Georgia State Route 141, Peachtree Industrial Boulevard in Gwinnett County, Georgia, Gwinnett County. The trail will be 10 feet (3.0 m) to 14 ...

, is a multi-use trail under construction along the

Peachtree Industrial Boulevard State Route 141 (SR 141) is a state highway that runs southwest-to-northeast in the northwest part of the U.S. state of Georgia. It connects the Buckhead area of Atlanta with Cumming. Its routing exists within portions of Fulton, DeK ...

. It is a

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cycle track A cycle track, separated bike lane or protected bike lane (sometimes historically referred to as a sidepath) is an exclusive bikeway that has elements of a separated path and on-road bike lane. A cycle track is located within or next to the ro ...

, and

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used to connect Duluth to neighboring Berkeley Lake, Norcross and Suwanee. In January 2018 significant plans were approved for the engineering phase to upgrade State Bridge Road and Pleasant Hill Road. There is community-wide support from the community in both neighboring Johns Creek and Duluth for the pedestrian river bridge for the project. It will serve to improve bike-pedestrian safety, boost local economies by improving access to businesses, enhance connections with surrounding neighborhoods and improve traffic flow in the area. In addition, the upgrade will serve to ease the inspection and maintenance of the bridge in the future. In March 2018, the Gwinnett County Commissioners approved the agreement with the Johns Creek City Council. Both sides have agreed to remove the sidewalks from the existing bridges in order to widen the roads. To improve safety for pedestrians, a new pedestrian bridge will be constructed on one side of the river. A

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linking both sides of the wider road is being considered to further improve access and provide for a safer crossing of the road. The Rogers bridge project is another significant plan that is to connect to

via reconstructing a bike/pedestrian bridge across the Chattahoochee River. The engineers will determine whether to replace or rehabilitate the existing Rogers Bridge over the Chattahoochee River, will take into account the environmental impacts of each option, and will restore the working bike/pedestrian connection between Duluth and Johns Creek. This will allow access to the planned 133-acre parkland under development in Johns Creek and will allow Fulton County residents access to

, the Chattapoochee Dog Park, and the

currently under development by Gwinnett County.

Notable people

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actor, podcaster, TV competition host, and two-time Georgia State High School Cheerleading Champion * Brian McCann, MLB player (Atlanta Braves), grew up in Duluth, graduated from Duluth High School *

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(born 1984), American-Israeli basketball player *

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, professional golfer *

Chris Duvall Chris Duvall (born September 10, 1991) is an American former professional soccer player who played as a right-back. He is currently an assistant coach for the St. Louis City SC 2 in MLS Next Pro. Born in Duluth, Georgia, Duvall began his care ...

, professional soccer player *

Scott Hall Scott Oliver Hall (October 20, 1958 – March 14, 2022) was an American professional wrestler. He was best known for his tenures with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) under his real name and under the ring name the Diamond Studd and with the ...

, WWE Hall of fame *

Nene Leakes Linnethia Monique "NeNe" Leakes (; née Johnson; born December 13, 1967) is an American television personality, actress, presenter, businesswoman, author, and fashion designer. Born in Queens, New York and raised in Athens, Georgia, she is best ...

, Reality television personality and actress *

Robert L. Lynn Robert Lee Lynn (November 19, 1931 – September 8, 2020) was a prize-winning poet in suburban Atlanta, Georgia, who from 1975 to 1997 was the sixth president of Southern Baptist-affiliated Louisiana Christian University in Pineville, Louisian ...

, poet and former president of

Louisiana College Louisiana Christian University (LCU) is a private Baptist university in Pineville, Louisiana. It enrolls 1,100 to 1,200 students. It is affiliated with the Louisiana Baptist Convention (Southern Baptist Convention). Louisiana Christia ...

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* MattyB, Viral YouTube musician * George Rogers, 1980 Heisman Trophy Winner grew up in Duluth, graduated from Duluth High School *

, first woman elected mayor in Georgia *

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, actress *

, the "runaway bride"

References

External links

City of Duluth official website

Home of Alice Harrell Strickland – Georgia's First Woman Mayor
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