Newnan, Georgia Newnan, Georgia Official seal of Newnan, Georgia Location in Coweta County and the state of Georgia Location in Coweta County and the state of Georgia Newnan is positioned in Metro Atlanta Newnan - Newnan Location of Newnan in Metro Atlanta State Georgia County Coweta Newnan is a town/city in Metro Atlanta and the governmental center of county of Coweta County, Georgia, approximately 40 miles (64 km) southwest of Atlanta.

5.1 Coweta County School District Coweta County Courthouse Newnan was established as governmental center of county of Coweta County (replacing the defunct town of Bullsboro) in 1828 and was titled for North Carolinian General Daniel Newnan.

Newnan was largely untouched by the Civil War due to its status as a hospital town/city (for Confederate troops), and as a result still features much antebellum architecture.

Newnan was also host to the trial in 1948 of wealthy landowner John Wallace, the first white man in the south to be condemned to death by the testimony of African Americans, two field hands who were made to help with burning the body of murdered white sharecropper Wilson Turner.

These affairs were portrayed in the novel Murder in Coweta County.

The town/city is home to one of the several Georgia counties with a exhibition that focuses mainly on African American history.

The Coweta County African American Heritage Museum and Research Center, or Caswell House, was opened in July 2003 in a donated foundry village home once owned by Ruby Caswell.

The exhibition also homes the Coweta Enumeration Indexes from 1870 to 1920. It is inside the town/city limits of Newnan.

Newnan is positioned in the center of Coweta County at 33 22 35 N 84 47 19 W (33.376411, -84.788648). U.S.

Route 29 passes through the center of the city, dominant northeast 13 miles (21 km) to Palmetto and south 7 miles (11 km) to Moreland.

Interstate 85 passes through the easterly side of the city, with access from exits 41 and 47, and leads northeast 40 miles (64 km) to downtown Atlanta and southwest 125 miles (201 km) to Montgomery, Alabama.

Route 27 - A leads northwest from the center of Newnan 22 miles (35 km) to Carrollton.

According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Newnan has a total region of 18.6 square miles (48.3 km2), of which 18.3 square miles (47.4 km2) is territory and 0.35 square miles (0.9 km2), or 1.88%, is water. Climate data for Newnan, Georgia Newnan's populace is approximately 33,039 and Coweta County's populace is approximately 127,400.

From 2000- 2010, the populace of town/city of Newnan interval by 42.7% as compared to 1990-2000, when the county interval by 65.7%.

The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 57.8% White Alone, 30.6% African American Alone, 0.3% Native American Alone, 2.8% Asian Alone, 0.1% Pacific Islander Alone, 5.6% from Some Other Race Alone, and 2.8% from Two or More Races.

In the city, the populace was spread out with 30.8% under the age of 19, 7.8% from 20 to 24, 29.8% from 25 to 44, 21.9% from 45 to 64, and 9.8% who were 65 years of age or older.

Coweta County School District The Coweta County School District holds pre-school to undertaking twelve, and consists of nineteen elementary schools, six middle schools, and three high schools. The precinct has 1,164 full-time teachers and over 18,389 students. Newnan Crossing Elementary East Coweta Middle School Smokey Road Middle School Trinity Christian School, Newnan (private) Newnan High School East Coweta High School Central Educational Center (Chartered Coweta County School System School) Trinity Christian School, Newnan (private) Mercer University has a Regional Academic Center in Newnan.

The University of West Georgia has a ground located in Newnan, near downtown.

Newnan is also home to a ground of West Georgia Technical College. Keith Brooking, former National Football League linebacker with Georgia Tech, Atlanta Falcons, and Dallas Cowboys Jerome Walton, former Major League Baseball player and 1989 Major League Baseball Rookie of the Year Award winner The TV movie Murder in Coweta County (1983), based on the book by Margaret Anne Barnes, chronicles actual affairs that occurred around 1948. The NBC series I'll Fly Away was filmed in Newnan from 1991 1993. poco extra e molto terrestre) with Bud Spencer takes place and was filmed in Newnan.

Newnan Coweta County Airport provides chartered air service and flight training.

"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Newnan city, Georgia".

The Coweta County Museum, Newnan Georgia: Black Firsts in Coweta County The Coweta County Museum, Newnan Georgia: 03/01/2008 - 04/01/2008 "Monthly Averages for Newnan, GA".

"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".

Georgia Board of Education, Retrieved June 5, 2010.

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"University of West Georgia- Newnan." "Coweta Campus Central Educational Center." Coweta County.

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