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Buy
the book
NOW
IN STORES: You can purchase the book
now at several locations:
- Books
for Less in downtown Snellville and Lawrenceville (Highway 20 near
the Braves park);
- Gwinnett
Historical Society in the Historic Courthouse.
- Howard's
Hardware, Duluth
- City
Hall, Buford
- Atlanta
History Center,
Atlanta
- City
Hall, Dacula
- City
Hall, Loganville
- Victorian
Cowgirl, Cleveland
- City
Hall, Sugar Hill
- City
Hall, Lilburn
- Bookstore,
Greater Atlanta Christian School
- Campus
Store, Wesleyan
School
Or order
directly through this site and get a signed copy. The book consists of 850
pages, including more than 143 demographic and historic tables, with more than
4,000 names in the index, and 10,000 names in the appendix.
NEWS
ABOUT GWINNETT
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twice a week.
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GWINNETT
QUIZ
Gwinnett: A Little Above Atlanta
Gwinnett: A Little
Above Atlanta did not start out to become a thick reference book.
Test yourself on
Gwinnett history. After you finish, check link at the bottom for the answer.
1. How did Button
Gwinnett die?
____________
2. Fill in the
blank: "Everybody is somebody in _________."
a. Gwinnett
b. Centerville
c. Dacula
d. Snellville
3. Near what city
was Gwinnett's first landing strip for airplanes?
a. Lawrenceville
b. Stone Mountain
c. Buford
d. Norcross
4. Four major
events took place in 1984 in Gwinnett. What were they?
a. Gwinnett Place
Mall opened.
b. Gwinnett Tech began
c. Republicans won every contested political race in county.
d. Gwinnett Medical Center in Lawrenceville began.
e. All of the above
f. Only one of the above
5. What family
name is associated with Buford's prosperity prior to World War II?
_____________
6. How did Gwinnett
County pay for a fence around the courthouse in 1849?
a. Contractor first
hired made off with money; put up by prisoners.
b. County had no money. Commissioners built it personally.
c. County dickered with four attorneys to erect the fence.
d. Court officials ordered county to build it.
7. What happened
to the missing half one-half of Jones Bridge?
a. Flood of 1910
washed it away.
b. Someone stole it.
c. Fell in during the Depression.
d. Yankees burned part of bridge during Civil War
8. What was Elisha
Winn's wife's first name?
a. Philadelphia
b. Mary Margaret
c. Eliza
d. Rachel
9. What group
put up the money to start Technology Park/Atlanta?
a. People associated
with the Research Triangle in North Carolina
b. Development firm out of Silicone Valley.
c. Mostly graduates of Georgia Tech.
d. The Peninsula and Orient Steamship line.
10. What do these
places have in common: Lilburn, Dacula, Tucker, Gloster, Luxomni, Mechanicsville?
a. All stops on
second railroad through Gwinnett
b. Each once was home of a sausage factory.
c. Each had team in same semi-pro baseball league.
d. Each at one time had a Waffle House.
e. All of the above.
f. None of the above.
Click
HERE to see the answers.
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