Английская Википедия:Coweta County, Georgia

Coweta County Шаблон:IPAc-en 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.^[1] The county seat is Newnan.^[2]

Coweta County is included in the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell metropolitan statistical area.

History

The land for Lee, Muscogee, Troup, Coweta and Carroll counties was ceded by the Creek people in the 1825 Treaty of Indian Springs. The counties' boundaries were created by the Georgia General Assembly on June 9, 1826, but they were not named until December 14, 1826. Coweta County was named for the Koweta Indians (a sub-group of the Creek people), who had several towns in and around the present-day county.^[3]

In the city of Newnan, on April 23, 1899, a notorious 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 tortured and burned alive by a lynch mob of approximately 2,000 citizens of Coweta County.

On August 9, 1882, Aleck Brown was lynched.^[4]

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of Шаблон:Convert, of which Шаблон:Convert is land and Шаблон:Convert (1.1%) is water.^[5] The county is located in the Piedmont region of the state.

The eastern half of Coweta County, from Palmetto southwest to Newnan, then south to Luthersville, is in the Upper Flint River sub-basin of the ACF River Basin (Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin). The western half is in the Middle Chattahoochee River-Lake Harding sub-basin of the same ACF River Basin.^[6]

Major highways

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Adjacent counties

Fulton County – northeast
Fayette County – east
Spalding County – southeast
Meriwether County – south
Troup County – southwest
Heard County – west
Carroll County – northwest

Communities

Cities

Towns

Census-designated place

East Newnan

Unincorporated communities

Planned town

In the federal government's National Urban Policy and New Community Development Act of 1970, funding was provided for thirteen "new towns" or planned cities throughout the country. One 70,000-acre location was set to be developed in Coweta County and was known as Shenandoah.^[7] The project was launched in the early 1970s and was foreclosed on in 1981, when it included 170 families and 108 residential lots.^[8]

Demographics

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Coweta County racial composition as of 2020^[9]
Race	Num.	Perc.
White (non-Hispanic)	99,421	68.02%
Black or African American (non-Hispanic)	25,544	17.48%
Native American	298	0.2%
Asian	3,329	2.28%
Pacific Islander	62	0.04%
Other/Mixed	6,451	4.41%
Hispanic or Latino	11,053	7.56%

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 146,158 people, 53,640 households, and 37,400 families residing in the county.

Education

The Coweta County School System holds pre-school to grade 12, and consists of nineteen elementary schools, six middle schools and three high schools.^[10] The system has 1,164 full-time teachers and more than 18,389 students.^[11] Private schools in the county include The Heritage School and Trinity Christian School.

Mercer University has a Regional Academic Center in Newnan. The center, opened in 2010, offers programs through the university's College of Continuing and Professional Studies. The University of West Georgia has a campus near downtown Newnan on the site of the old Newnan Hospital. This campus offers two undergraduate programs - Bachelor of Science in nursing and early childhood education.^[12]

Newnan is also home to a campus of West Georgia Technical College.^[13]

Government

The legislative body of Coweta is the Coweta County Commission, which consists of five members elected from numbered districts. The chairmanship rotates among the members. Coweta County is the only county in Georgia that operates with a rotating chairmanship.

District	Commissioner	Party	Term of office	Seat up
District 1	Paul Poole	Republican	2021–present	2024
District 2	Bill McKenzie	Republican	2021–present	2026
District 3	Bob Blackburn	Republican	2023–present	2026
District 4	John Reidelbach (Chairman)	Republican	2021–present	2024
District 5	Al Smith	Democratic	2021–present	2024

In the General Assembly, it is currently divided between State House district 70, 71, 72 and 132, and is within State Senate district 28 (currently held by Matt Brass). In Congress, it is in the 3rd congressional district, currently represented by Drew Ferguson.

Politics

Coweta is a strongly Republican county, voting 68.4 percent for Donald Trump in 2016 and 69.9 percent for Brian Kemp in 2018.

Notable people

Ellis Gibbs Arnall, governor of Georgia, 1943-1947
William Yates Atkinson, governor of Georgia, 1894–1896; founded Georgia State College for Women, now Georgia College & State University
Steve Bedrosian, former Major League baseball player; National League Cy Young Award winner in 1987
Eric Berry, football player for the Kansas City Chiefs
Keith Brooking, football player for the Atlanta Falcons and Dallas Cowboys
Erskine Caldwell, author of the novels Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre
Lewis Grizzard, newspaper columnist, author and humorist
Drew Hill, played for the pro football Houston Oilers, Los Angeles Rams and Atlanta Falcons
Sam Hose, African-American man who was brutally murdered by a lynch mob after accusations of murder, assault and rape
Alan Jackson, country music singer and musician
Joe M. Jackson, colonel, U.S. Air Force, Medal of Honor recipient
Warren Newson, played pro baseball for the Chicago White Sox
Stephen W. Pless, major, U.S. Marine Corps, Medal of Honor recipient
Jefferson Randolph "Soapy" Smith, confidence man and crime boss
Charles Wadsworth, retired director of the Chamber Music Society at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Jerome Walton, former Major League baseball player; Rookie of the Year in the National League in 1989
Rutledge Wood, auto racing analyst and host of Top Gear

References

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External links

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