Doraville, Georgia Doraville, Georgia Doraville City Hall Doraville City Hall Doraville is positioned in Metro Atlanta Doraville - Doraville Doraville locale in Metro Atlanta Doraville is a town/city in De - Kalb County, Georgia, in the United States.
Doraville was incorporated by an act of the Georgia General Assembly, allowed December 15, 1871.
From its evolution until the 1940s, Doraville was a small agricultural improve that served the interests of a larger encircling farming area.
General Motors chose Doraville as the site for its new assembly plant.
In 1950, Doraville's populace was 472.
By the 1980s, Doraville and neighboring Chamblee thriving immigrants relocating to the Atlanta region who settled along Buford Highway.
The Doraville MARTA Station was assembled in 1992, destroying the several buildings that remained of Doraville's downtown.
The GM Doraville Assembly Plant closed in 2009, and the economy has stalled plans to turn the site into a mixed-use town center.
Nonetheless, Doraville is becoming an attractive destination because of its close adjacency to Atlanta, its MARTA Station, and the promise of a new town center.
Doraville is positioned at 33 54 19 N 84 16 26 W (33.905302, -84.273870). Doraville is east of Chamblee, south of Dunwoody, west of Norcross, and north of Tucker.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 3.6 square miles (9.3 km2), of which 0.004 square miles (0.01 km2), or 0.11%, is water. Crooked Creek goes through Doraville.
Doraville is not a senior-friendly community.
On November 21, 2005, General Motors announced that it would close its Doraville automobile manufacturing plant on September 26, 2008.
Doraville contains a large stock of mid-century undivided homes, arguably the biggest concentration in urbane Atlanta.
Mid-Century architecture was incessantly working in residentiary structures with the goal of bringing modernism into suburbs advanced in the era immediately following World War II, which is when the majority of homes in Doraville were constructed.
While the style in seen throughout Doraville, the Northwoods and Northcrest neighborhoods are the most well-preserved Mid-Century undivided neighborhoods in the city. In Northcrest, over half of the homes are Mid-Century moderns, while Northwoods is one of only three surviving mid-century prepared communities in Georgia. Based on these unique architectural and planning features, the Northwoods Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 2, 2014. The Northwoods Historic District consists of five adjoining residentiary neighborhoods, including Northwoods, Fleetwood Hills, Gordon Hills, Gordon Heights and Sequoyah Woods. The Northwoods, Gordon Hills and Gordon Heights neighborhoods are all positioned in the City of Doraville, and Sequoyah Woods and Fleetwood Hills are positioned in unincorporated De - Kalb County. De - Kalb County School System serves Doraville.
The following elementary schools serve sections of Doraville: Henderson Mill Elementary School (Doraville) Oakcliff Elementary School (Doraville) Hightower Elementary School (Doraville) Cary Reynolds Elementary School (Doraville) The following middle schools serve sections of Doraville: Sequoyah Middle School (Doraville) The following high schools serve sections of Doraville: De - Kalb County Public Library operates the Doraville Branch. For mass transit, it is served by the Doraville MARTA heavy-rail station.
The Doraville Parks and Recreation Department Manages a range of facilities, including Honeysuckle Park, Fleming Arena, the Paul Murphy Boxing Club, Autumn Park, Brook Park, Chicopee Park, English Oak Park, Flowers Park and Bernard Halpern Park. The 70s Southern rock/adult intact band The Atlanta Rhythm Section was formed in Doraville. The band's first top 40 single was an uptempo song titled "Doraville" from the Third Annual Pipe Dream album.
"The City of Doraville Georgia Website".
The City of Doraville Georgia Website.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Doraville city, Georgia".
See town/city limits of the City of Doraville at https://doravillega.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/City-Boundary-122014.pdf.
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