Fayette County Courthouse Fayette County Courthouse Location in Fayette County and the state of Georgia Location in Fayette County and the state of Georgia County Fayette Fayetteville is a town/city in Fayette County, Georgia, United States.

The town/city is the governmental center of county of Fayette County. Fayetteville is positioned 22 miles (35 km) south of downtown Atlanta. In 2015 the small majority-white town/city propel its first black mayor, Edward Johnson, a retired US navy commander and pastor.

In 2011 he was propel as the first black town/city council member.

He was a three-term president of the NAACP. In 2015 African Americans were propel as mayors in other small metros/cities near Atlanta, and in other parts of the state. 4.1 Fayette County School District Fayetteville was established in 1822 as the seat of the newly formed Fayette County, organized by European Americans from territory ceded by force the Creek citizens under a treaty with the United States amid the early reconstructionof Indian removal from the Southeast.

Both town/city and county were titled in honor of the Revolutionary War hero the French Marquis de Lafayette.

Fayetteville was incorporated as a town in 1823 and as a town/city in 1909. The region was advanced for cotton plantations, with workforce provided by enslaved African Americans, who for more than a century comprised the majority of the county's population.

A reverse migration has brought new inhabitants to the South, and the town/city of Fayetteville has grown noteably since 2000, as has the county.

Council members are propel from single-member districts, and the mayor is propel at-large in a non-partisan race. In 2015 Edward Johnson was propel mayor, the first African American to serve in the position.

That year a several small metros/cities in Georgia propel their first black mayors. The retired US Naval Commander and pastor of Fayette County's earliest black church is described as a consensus builder.

In 2011 Johnson was propel as the first black member of the town/city council after having served three terms as president of the small-town chapter of the NAACP. The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 55.0% White, 33.9% African American, 0.4% Native American, 6.6% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 1.3% from other competitions, and 2.8% from two or more competitions.

In the city, the age distribution was 26.7% under the age of 18, 7.4% from 18 to 24, 9.1% from 25 to 34, 15.4% from 35 to 44, 15.9% from 45 to 54, 11.4% from 55 to 64, and 14.0% who were 65 years of age or older.

Since 2013, members of the Fayette County School Board have been propel from single-member districts, clean water at-large, following a federal court ruling in a voting rights case.

Leonard Presberg was first appointed to fill a seat, then propel on his own right to serve on the school board. In January 2016 the school board voted unanimously to settle their appeals case and accept single-member districts as the basis of electing members. Fayette County School District The Fayette County School District holds pre-school to undertaking twelve, and consists of fifteen elementary schools, five middle schools, and five high schools, as well as an alternative education program and Open Campus for middle and high school students. The precinct has 1,379 full-time teachers and over 20,756 students. Fayette County High School, Whitewater High School, Sandy Creek High School, Mc - Intosh High School and Starr's Mill High School serve the Fayetteville area.

Private schools include Counterpane School, Our Lady of Mercy Catholic High School, and Grace Christian Academy.

The Fayette County Courthouse, assembled in 1825 four years after the county and town's founding, is the earliest surviving courthouse in Georgia.

It holds offices for Fayetteville Main Street and the Fayette County Development Authority.

The Margaret Mitchell Library, assembled in 1948 and titled in honor of the author, serves as the command posts of the Fayette County Historical Society.

Edward Johnson, retired US Navy Commander, pastor, activist (three-term president of small-town NAACP) and politician: in 2011 first African American propel to the Fayetteville City Council, and first African American propel as mayor of the town/city (2015) Fayetteville, Georgia facts a b c d Tammy Joyner, "Fayetteville's first black mayor is 'bridge builder'", Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 7 November 2015; accessed 13 December 2016 a b c Timothy Pratt, "New black mayors make a difference, one Georgia town at a time", Al-jazeera (US), 16 February 2016; accessed 12 December 2016 a b "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".

"Fayette chooses 'discriminatory' at-large voting to replace Coston, Democrats charge", The Citizen, 13 July 2015; accessed 13 December 2016 Tammy Joyner, "Fayette County Voting Rights Timeline", Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 13 January 2016; accessed 13 December 2016 Fayette County BOE School Directory, Retrieved February 20, 2016.

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