FAYETTEVILLE Fayetteville is a city in Fayette County, Georgia. The incorporated city population is approximately 15,000. The city is the county seat of Fayette County. Fayetteville is located approximately 22 miles from the city of Atlanta.[ Education Fayetteville is served by the Fayette County School System. Fayette County High School, Whitewater High School, and Starr's Mill High School serve the Fayetteville area. Also, Whitewater Middle School, Fayette Middle School, Bennetts Mill Middle School and Rising Starr Middle School serve the city residents. Spring Hill Elementary, Sara Harp Minter Elementary, Cleveland Elementary, and Hood Avenue Primary and Fayetteville Intermediate serve the Fayetteville area as elementary schools. Points of Interest The Fayette County Courthouse, built in 1825, only four years after the county and town's founding, is the oldest surviving courthouse in Georgia. The courthouse sits in the center of the Fayetteville town square and today houses the local chamber of commerce and the Fayette County Development Authority. The Hollingsworth House is a privately owned and operated public events facility. The house was built in 1906 as a wedding gift to Waymon B. and Irene Felker Hollingsworth from Irene's father, Mr. George Walton Felker of Monroe. The Holliday-Dorsey-Fife House, built in 1855 by John Stiles Holliday, uncle of the western gambler John Henry "Doc" Holliday. The Margaret Mitchell Library, built in 1948, is today the home of the Fayette County Historical Society and houses Civil War and genealogical records. |
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