Buford, Georgia Buford, Georgia Location in Gwinnett County and the state of Georgia Location in Gwinnett County and the state of Georgia Buford is positioned in Metro Atlanta Buford - Buford Buford is a town/city in Gwinnett and Hall counties in the U.S.
As of the 2010 census, the town/city had a populace of 12,225. Most of the town/city is in Gwinnett County, which is part of the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The portions of the town/city in Hall County are not part of Atlanta's urbane statistical area, but are part of Atlanta's larger Combined Statistical Area, which includes Hall County.
Buford was titled after Algernon Sidney Buford, who at the time was president of the Atlanta and Richmond Air-Line Railway.
The town/city operates its own school district, the Buford City School District, and has been the place of birth and home of a several musicians and athletes.
Various tourist locations, including exhibitions and improve centers, the biggest mall in the state of Georgia, the Mall of Georgia, and Lake Lanier Islands are in the Buford region.
The region that is now Buford was originally part of Cherokee territory.
Even with the treaty in 1817 that ceded the territory to the United States and Gwinnett County's legislative establishment in 1818, the region was still largely inhabited by the Cherokee until the 1830s. The first non-Native Americans moved to the Buford region in the late 1820s or early 1830s, although the Buford region was not largely settled by them until the 1860s. During the post-Civil War assembly of the extended Richmond and Danville Railroad System in 1865, barns stockholders Thomas Garner and Larkin Smith purchased territory around the barns 's right-of-way and began developing the town/city of Buford. The town/city was titled after Algernon Sidney Buford, who was president of the Atlanta and Richmond Air-Line Railway amid the barns 's construction. The town began quickly expanding around the stockyards after its culmination in 1871, and it was incorporated as the Town of Buford on August 24, 1872, and retitled the City of Buford in 1896. In the late 1800s and early 1900s Buford became widely known for its leather production, becoming prominently associated with the leather trade and earning the nickname "The Leather City". Buford became a large producer of leather products, including saddles, horse collars, bridles, and shoes.
Allen's brother Bona Allen moved to Buford from Rome, Georgia, in 1872 and established the Bona Allen Company the following year. The leather trade quickly became the city's biggest industry despite setbacks from a several fires, including a fire in 1903 that finished the buildings of a several businesses and a fire in 1906 that finished a straw storehouse and nearly finished the city's harness and horse collar factory. Bona Allen saddles were available through the Sears mail order catalog, and many Hollywood actors used saddles made by the Bona Allen Company, including cowboy actors Gene Autry, the cast of Bonanza, and Roy Rogers, who used a Bona Allen saddle on his horse Trigger. A statue of Roy Rogers and a Bona Allen saddle-maker saddling Trigger is positioned in downtown Buford. The Bona Allen Company thrived amid the Great Depression in the 1930s, likely as a result of the Depression forcing farmers to choose horses over expensive tractors, thereby increasing the demand for saddles, collars, bridles, and other leather products. The historic Tannery Row building in downtown Buford The Bona Allen Company constructed Tannery Row in downtown Buford as a shoe factory in 1919. After a brief employee strike the shoe factory was closed in 1942, although it was briefly reopened by the request of the federal government amid World War II to make footwear for the military.
After the Great Depression the use of horses for farming decreased and tractors took their place, and the Bona Allen Company steadily downsized until the tannery was eventually sold to the Tandy Corporation in 1968. Buford's leather trade ended after the tannery experienced a fire in 1981, when the Tandy Corporation decided not to rebuild the tannery and closed the facility. Buford, Georgia Buford is positioned in both northern Gwinnett County in northern Georgia, with a small portion extending north into Hall County.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, as of 2010 the town/city has a total territory area of 17.09 square miles (44.26 km2), of which 17.01 square miles (44.06 km2) is territory and 0.08 square miles (0.20 km2), or 0.44%, is water. The city's altitude is 1,183 feet (361 m). Buford's town/city limits are 4.5 miles (7.2 km) west of the Eastern Continental Divide. Ridge Road, part of which uses Buford as a mailing address, runs along the Eastern Continental Divide, although the road itself is outside the town/city limits.
The climate of Buford, as with most of the southeastern United States, is humid subtropical (Cfa) as stated to the Koppen classification, with four seasons including hot, humid summers and cool winters.
Buford, as with the rest of Gwinnett County, has a revenue tax of 6%, which is a combination of the 4% state revenue tax and a 2% small-town tax. In 2008, CNN Money ranked Buford as number 3 in its annual "100 best places to live and start a business" list. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, Buford's economy was centered on both its locale as a stockyards stop and its leather industry, until demand for leather declined and other transit options became more readily available over the course of the 1900s, and these industries were no longer a viable part of Buford's economy by the 1980s. Census's American Community Survey 2007 2011 5-year estimate, around 65% of Buford's populace that are 16 years or older are in the workforce force. Of these, around 59% are employed, and 6% are unemployed.
The power tool manufacturer Makita operates a factory in Buford with 400 employees. The North American division of Takeuchi Manufacturing was positioned in Buford from 1999 until 2006, when the business moved to a larger facility in Pendergrass, Georgia. The Mall of Georgia at 3333 Buford Drive Buford has a several walking trails throughout the city; over 7 miles (11 km) of trails are accessible from both the Gwinnett Environmental & Heritage Center and the Mall of Georgia as well as walking trails at Bogan and Buford Dam parks.
Bogan Park also has a several baseball fields and playgrounds as well as the Bogan Park Community Center and Family Aquatics Center. Buford Dam Park is next to Lake Lanier and has areas for swimming and other recreational activities. In addition to the parks run by Gwinnett County there are five town/city parks positioned throughout Buford, and a improve center, which was instead of in early 2012. While outside the official Buford town/city limits, the mall uses Buford as its mailing address. The City of Buford is governed by a town/city commission government headed by a Commission Chairman.
Phillip Beard has served as Buford's Commission Chairman since 1975.When the Town of Buford was incorporated in 1872, a town/city commission consisting of six commissioners was established to govern the town. When a new town/city charter was enacted in 1896 that retitled the Town of Buford to the City of Buford, the town/city commission was replaced with a mayor and six councilmen. The town/city council governed the City of Buford until a new charter was allowed on December 24, 1937 that re-established the town/city commission government. The region of Buford inside Gwinnett County is part of Georgia's 7th congressional precinct while the Hall County portions of Buford belong to Georgia's 9th congressional district.
The Buford City School District operates two elementary schools, Buford Academy and Buford Elementary, as well as Buford Middle School and Buford High School. The Gwinnett Environmental & Heritage Center is a exhibition and cultural center instead of in August 2006 and is positioned in Buford. The center was created to educate kids about both water and surroundingal resources as well as Gwinnett's cultural heritage, including the county's Cherokee and Creek cultures. The Chesser-Williams House, a historic home which is believed to predate the 1850s and one of the earliest wooden-frame homes in Gwinnett county, was moved to the exhibition to turn into part of the exhibition's cultural exhibits. Buford Community Center is a multi-purpose facility that was instead of in 2012. Located athwart the street from Buford City Hall, the Buford Community Center has a exhibition, 290-seat stage theatre, an outside amphitheater, and a several spaces for meetings, banquets, and weddings. As part of the Metro Atlanta area, Buford's major network-affiliated tv stations are WXIA-TV (NBC), WGCL-TV (CBS), WSB-TV (ABC), and WAGA-TV (Fox). WGTV is the small-town station of the statewide Georgia Public Television network and is a PBS member station. Buford is served by the Gwinnett Daily Post, which is the most widely distributed journal in Buford as well as Gwinnett county's legal organ. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Gainesville Times are also distributed in Buford.
During the late 1800s, the town/city of Buford had a number of small-town newspapers including the Buford Gazette and the Buford Herald, none of which attained consistent widespread use in the city. The weekly Gwinnett Herald served Buford until 1885. Two primary interstate highways pass through Buford: Interstate 85 and Interstate 985 both travel through the town/city in a general northeast-southwest direction. Buford is Exit 115 on I-85 and Exit 4 on I-985. Georgia State Route 20 travels through Buford in a general northwest-southeast direction.
Route 23 travels northeast into Buford before first merging with State Route 20 towards the southeast and then with I-985 towards the northeast. The Gwinnett County Transit provides enhance transit in Buford and Gwinnett County, and GRTA Xpress operates a Park and Ride in Buford that commutes to Atlanta. The nearest airport is the Gwinnett County Airport in the town/city of Lawrenceville, a small enhance airport with a single asphalt runway 14 miles (23 km) from the Buford.
The closest primary airports are Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport, which is 48 miles (77 km) from Buford and Athens Ben Epps Airport, which is 53 miles (85 km). Buford has a several clinics and family doctors, including an Emory Healthcare clinic and a Northside Hospital imaging center, but no primary hospitals inside the town/city limits. The closest hospital is Northside Hospital-Forsyth, which is 9 miles (14 km) away in Cumming. Gwinnett Medical Center and Emory Johns Creek Hospital are both 12 miles (19 km) from Buford, in Lawrenceville and Johns Creek in the order given.
List of citizens from Buford, Georgia Buford has been both the place of birth and hometown of a number of notable individuals, including notable athletes and musicians. Due to its adjacency to the Atlanta Falcons training facility in Flowery Branch, Georgia Buford is home to a several Atlanta Falcons players, who have also trained in and around Buford. Many of Buford High School's alumni have also played experienced sports. a b c d e "Buford (city) Quick - Facts".
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