- NEIGHBORHOODS
- Acadia
- Adams
- Annas Walk
- Anniston Place
- Ansley Park
- Ansonborough
- Appleby Mews
- Arlington Commons
- Ashton Place
- Avalon
- Barrington
- Baxter Street Lofts
- Bedgood-Glenwood
- Beech Creek Preserve
- Beechwood
- Beechwood Hills
- Belair Heights
- Belle Springs Woods
- Berkley Hills
- Berkshire Commons
- Birchmore Hills
- Blackmon Shoals
- Boulevard
- Bowden Park
- Briarcliff
- Bridgewater
- Brittany Place
- Brittanys Garden
- Brookewood Mill
- Brookfield Village
- Brooklyn
- Brookstone
- Buckingham Terrace
- Burkland Hills
- Camelot
- Campus Overlook
- Cardinal Creek
- Carriage Court
- Carrington Plantation
- Cedar Creek
- Cedar Shoals Estates
- Chadds Walk
- Chaddwyck
- Chatham Park
- Cherokee Forest
- Cherokee Mills
- Chestnut Glen
- Chicopee Commons
- Chicopee-Dudley
- Cobbham
- Cobbham
- Cobblestone Creek
- Colleton Oaks
- Cooperhill
- Cottages at Homewood
- Creekside Manor
- Crestwood
- Crystal Hills
- Davis Estates
- Downtown
- Drayton Square
- Eaglewood Court
- East Hampton
- East Highland
- East Side
- Elders Landing
- Emerald Pointe
- Epps Bridge Crossing
- Escoe Estates
- Falling Shoals
- Fernbank
- Five Points
- Five Points
- Foley Commons
- Forest Heights
- Forest Hills
- Founders Grove
- Fox Hall Farms
- Foxridge
- Gameday Condos
- Georgetown
- Georgia Square
- Georgia Traditions
- Georgian Hills
- Glen Meadows
- Glen Oaks
- Glenwood
- Godfrey Shoals
- Greenbrier
- Greenmont
- Greenwood
- Greystone
- Habersham
- Hampton Park
- Harris Heights
- Harris Hills
- Hickory Pointe
- High Ridge
- Highlands at Woodlake
- Hillside Park
- Hodgeson Place
- Holiday Estates
- Holly Hills
- Homewood Hills
- Hunters Pointe
- Hunters Ridge
- Huntington Place
- Huntington Shoals
- Idlewilde
- Idylwood
- Ivywood
- Kingswood
- Knob Creek
- Knottingham
- Lake Wellbrook
- Lakewood Manor
- Lantern Walk
- Laurel Springs
- Lavender Glenn
- Lavender Woods
- Lea Haven
- Lexington Estates
- Lexington Heights
- Lindsay Ridge
- Lumpkin Square
- Madison Lane
- Madnyville
- Mallard Creek
- Marvin Corner
- Masters Oaks
- Mcnutts Creek
- Meadow Creek
- Milford Hills
- Milledge Place
- Newtown
- Normaltown
- Norwood
- Oak Grove
- Oak Park
- Oakridge
- Old Heritage Farms
- Old Lexington Trace
- Olde Lexington Gardens
- Park East
- Park Oaks
- Peabody
- Pinecrest
- Pinedale
- Plantation Estates
- Pulaski Heights
- Wakefield
- Waterford
- Waverly Woods
- Wedgefield
- Welbrook Farms
- West Side
- Westgate Park
- Westwood Hills
- Whitehall Mill
- Whitehall Village
- Wickersham Plantation
- Willow Mist
- Windy Hills
- Woodhaven
- Woodlake
- Woodlands of Athens
- Woodridge
- Woods of Habersham
- Woodstone Park
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Athens City Hall is located at 301 College Avenue, Athens, GA 30601; phone: 706-613-3010.
Known as Athens-Clarke, the Clark County and the City of Athens operate under a unified, consolidated government beginning in 1990.
Photo: City Hall, 301 College Avenue, Athens, GA, Richard Chambers, photographer, May, 2008, en.wikipedia.org, accessed February, 2011.
When Athens became a town in 1806 it was the most northern settlement in the State, and nearest to the borders of the Indian reservation. The first store was opened by Stevens Thomas, and the second by Elizur Newton. The descendants of these men long occupied prominent positions in Clarke County.
The City of Athens was constituted a municipality in 1872 under a charter from the General Assembly.
The city is built on ridges that rise up from the Oconee River, and from several small streams that lead into that river.
The social life of Athens in antebellum days had many marked peculiarities. The town had attracted, by virtue of its educational advantages (Franklin College, now the University of Georgia) a large number of wealthy and cultured people; the history of the State is dotted at very frequent intervals with the names of Athens men. The University commencements were occasions of most lavish hospitality, and scarcely a home could be found at such times that did not hold a distinguished guest. As there were no railroad facilities for many years, everybody came in private carriages; those from Savannah and the lower portion of the State making Athens their stopping place on the way to Madison Springs and the picturesque summer resorts around Clarkesville and Tallulah Falls. Those concerned with the affairs of State followed the Governor and Senatus Academicus to Athens and all were accorded a generous welcome. Many of the political slates in State and national politics were concocted at such times in the handsome drawing rooms that fringe the University campus. Before an audience of this description, made attractive by beauty as well as renown, the young recipients of college honors made their best bows and delivered their best speeches.
- Charles Morton Strahan, C.M.E., Clarke County, GA. and the City of Athens, Charles P. Byrd, Printer, Atlanta, 1893.
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