Suwanee Details:
Suwanee began as an Indian village along the banks of Suwanee Creek and the Chattahoochee River. The community was named for a Shawnee Indian tribe that settled here in the latter part of the 18th century, though the village probably was inhabited long before this particular group of Native Americans arrived. The City's name is thought to derive from the English mispronunciation of Shawnee, a tribe of Algonquin Indians, who first settled along the banks of the Chattahoochee River. Shawnee is an Algonquin word for "Southerner" and was used because the Shawnee lived the furthest south of all the Algonquin tribes.
The post office was established in 1837, marking the official founding of the City.
Like Atlanta, Suwanee’s growth and development are closely related to the establishment of transportation thoroughfares. The Southern Railroad route between Atlanta and Charlotte was constructed through Suwanee in 1871. In 1881, a narrow-gauge railroad was constructed from Lawrenceville to Suwanee, making Suwanee a changing station for people to transfer to the Southern Railroad line that could take them into Atlanta. The town had about 216 residents at the time.
Suwanee was incorporated in 1949, but remained a small agricultural-based community into the 1970s. Then, with easy access to Atlanta provided by Interstate 85 and U.S. 23 (Buford Highway), the population of Suwanee increased from 615 persons to 1,026 within 10 years. The boom continued throughout the 1990s with the City's population increasing by 265 percent over the decade
| Atlanta, GA Contact Info | |
| General Manager: | Jim White |
| Assistant Manager: |
Ahmed Williams |
| Account Executive: | Marty Lee |
| 100 Pinnacle Way, Suite 175 |
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| Norcross, GA 30071 | |
| Tel: | 770-840-8232 |
| Fax: | 770-840-9308 |
| Toll Free: | 1-800-487-9669 |
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