Newnan is a city in and the

county seat A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or parish (administrative division), civil parish. The term is in use in five countries: Canada, China, Hungary, Romania, and the United States. An equiva ...

Coweta County, Georgia Coweta County is a County (United States), county in the West Central Georgia, West Central region of the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. It is part of Metro Atlanta. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the populatio ...

, United States, about southwest of

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. Its population was 42,549 at the 2020 census, up from 33,039 in

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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 Spanish Florida (fighting against Seminole people), North Carolina and Georgia. Early years and education Born in Salisbury, North Carolina in 178 ...

. 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 Slavery is the ownership of a person as property, especially in regards to their labour. Slavery typically involves compulsory work, with the slave's location of work and residence dictated by the party that holds them in bondage. Enslavemen ...

. Newnan was largely untouched by the

Civil War A civil war is a war between organized groups within the same Sovereign state, state (or country). The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government policies.J ...

due to its status as a hospital city (for both Union and Confederate troops), and as a result still features much

antebellum architecture Antebellum architecture (from Antebellum South, Latin for "pre-war") is the Neoclassical architecture, neoclassical architectural style characteristic of the 19th-century Southern United States, especially the Deep South, from after the birth of ...

. 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 Historically, cavalry (from the French word ''cavalerie'', itself ...

. 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 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 accused of rape. Personal life Sam Hose was born ...

(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 known as Black Americans and formerly also called Afro-Americans, are an Race and ethnicity in the United States, American racial and ethnic group that consists of Americans who have total or partial ancestry from an ...

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 The murder in Coweta County was an April 1948 murder committed in Coweta County in the U.S. state of Georgia. A wealthy landowner in Meriwether County was pursued by the sheriff of neighboring Coweta County, Georgia. The events were the subject ...

''. In 1968,

Kmart Kmart ( ), formerly legally registered as Kmart Corporation, now operated by Transformco, is a department-store chain and online retailer in the United States and Territories of the United States, its territories. It operates four remaining Kma ...

opened a warehouse in Newnan, which slowly established it as a major hub for distribution in the area. 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. Feeder schools include Evans Middle School, Smokey Road Middle School, and M ...

was re-built after sustaining serious damage.

Geography

Newnan is located in the center of Coweta County.

U.S. Route 29 U.S. Route 29 or U.S. Highway 29 (US 29) is a north–south United States Numbered Highway that runs for from Pensacola, Florida, to Ellicott City, Maryland, just west of Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, in the Eastern United Stat ...

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

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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.

Demographics

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. 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. The

Boots On the Ground (song) "Boots on the Ground", also known as "Boots on the Ground: Where Them Fans At?" is a song written and performed by American singer Douglas Furtick, under the stage name 803Fresh. The song is strongly associated with the "Boots on the Ground" s ...

is strongly associated with the Boots On the Ground soul

line dance A line dance is a choreographed dance in which a group of people dance along to a repeating sequence of dance step, steps while arranged in one or more lines or rows. These lines usually face all in the same direction, or less commonly face each ot ...

created by Newnan native Jaterrious Trésean Little, aka Trè Little.

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 *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

* Arnall Middle School *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-f ...

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

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. Eas ...

* 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

Mercer University Mercer University is a Private university, private Research university, research university in Macon, Georgia, United States. Founded in 1833 as Mercer Institute and gaining university status in 1837, it is the oldest private university in the s ...

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, United States. The university offers a satellite campus in Newnan, Georgia, Newnan, Georgia, select classes at its Douglasville Center, and off-campus Museum Studies c ...

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 provides 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.

Transportation

Major roads

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* State Route 34 * State Route 34 Bypass * State Route 16 * State Route 70 *Bullsboro Road *Lower Fayetteville Road *Newnan Crossing Boulevard East *Newnan Crossing Bypass *Millard Farmer Industrial Boulevard *

* U.S. Route 27 Alternate

Public transit

The public trolley operates between downtown and The Forum at Ashley Park.

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 constr ...

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 ''

Piedmont Limited The ''Piedmont Limited'' was a named passenger train operated by the Southern Railway in the southern United States. For most of its life it was a New York—New Orleans train, operating over the same route as the more famous '' Crescent L ...

'' made stops in both directions in Newnan.

Notable people

Ellis Arnall Ellis Gibbs Arnall (March 20, 1907 – December 13, 1992) was an American politician who served as the 69th Governor of Georgia from 1943 to 1947. A liberal Democrat, he helped lead efforts to abolish the poll tax and to reduce Georgia's votin ...

, governor of Georgia (1943–1947) *

William Yates Atkinson William Yates Atkinson (November 11, 1854 – August 8, 1899) was an American politician who served as the governor of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1894 to 1898. Early life Atkinson was born in the Oakland community in Meriwether County, Ge ...

, governor of Georgia (1894–1898) *

Karsten Bailey Karsten Mario Bailey (born April 26, 1977) is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Seattle Seahawks in the third round of the 1999 NFL draft. He pl ...

, former

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(NFL) wide receiver with

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and

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* Enoch Marvin Banks, historian and educator *

Cam Bedrosian Cameron Rock Bedrosian (born October 2, 1991) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Los Angeles Angels, Cincinnati Reds, Oakland Athletics, and Philadelphia Phillies. The Angels sel ...

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(MLB) pitcher for the

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, former MLB pitcher, winner of 1987

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, musician and record producer *

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, former linebacker with

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and NFL's

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and

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, novelist and short fiction writer (1903–1987) * Jack Tarpley Camp Jr., jurist *

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, author and newspaper columnist *

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, former NFL wide receiver with

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, and

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member * Joe M. Jackson,

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recipient *

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, former All-Pro NFL wide receiver with

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, second selection of

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* John Keith, former NFL player * Wil Lutz, NFL kicker with

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* Mary Lyndon, first woman to receive degree from

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* Monica, Grammy-winning singer, songwriter, actress, and entrepreneur * Warren Newson, MLB player with

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, Texas Rangers *

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, NFL linebacker * Stephen W. Pless,

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major, Medal of Honor recipient * Ralph Presley, airline pilot and politician * Rocky Roquemore, international golf course designer * Jefferson Randolph "Soapy" Smith II, (1860–1898), infamous 19th century gambler, confidence man, and crime boss * Lynn Smith, businesswoman, educator, and politician *

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, MLB pitcher for the

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singer-songwriter * Charles Wadsworth, concert pianist, music promoter *

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, MLB player, 1989 Rookie of the Year *

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(1853–1914), journalist, traveler, historian, author * William C. Wright, congressman (1918–1933) *

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, pioneer

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musician

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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series ''

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'' was filmed in Newnan from 1991 to 1993. * The 1995 movie '' Fluke'' was filmed in Newnan. * ''Pet Sematary Two'' (1992) * The 1979 movie ''

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'' (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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TV series '' Insatiable'' was filmed in Newnan. *''

Zombieland ''Zombieland'' is a 2009 American post-apocalyptic zombie comedy film directed by Ruben Fleischer in his directorial debut and written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. It stars Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin, ...

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

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'' (2016) *'' The House with a Clock in Its Walls'' (2018) *''

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'' (2019) *'' Jumanji: The Next Level (2019) was filmed in Newnan where

fake snow Fake snow is any product which simulates the appearance and texture of snow, without being made from frozen crystalline water. Fake snow has been made from many materials. In the early 1900s, decorative snow was sometimes made from borax flake ...

was sprayed all over downtown Newnan to have the effect of a winter storm. The filming of the movie occurred in the present business named Rock Salt Milk Bar which was named Nora's Diner in the movie.

References

External links

City of Newnan official website
* * {{authority control * Cities in Georgia (U.S. state) Cities in Coweta County, Georgia County seats in Georgia (U.S. state) 1828 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)