Jonesboro City, Clayton County, Georgia (GA)

Jonesboro City

Clayton County, Georgia

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Jonesboro City Hall is located at 124 North Avenue, Jonesboro, GA 30236.
Phone: 770‑478‑3800.

Neighborhoods

  • Alden Woods
  • Arbor Forest
  • Belle Grove
  • Castlebrook
  • Chason Woods
  • Crimson Ridge
  • Cypress Estates
  • Dads Farm
  • Four Winds South
  • Hastings Ferry
  • Ivey Ridge
  • Landings at Mundys Mills
  • Poston Oaks
  • South Porte
  • The Country Place
  • West Winds
  • Whaleys Lake
  • Whispering Hollow
  • Willow Bend
  • Wrights Crossing
  • Adamson
  • Andover at Hawthorne
  • Ansley Piont
  • Arbor Place
  • Ashley Oaks
  • Autumn Forest
  • Bali Hi
  • Barcelona Estates
  • Barrington Woods
  • Battlecreek Commons
  • Bay View Spivey Estates
  • Beaver Dam Estates
  • Betony Wood Park
  • Biltmore
  • Bonanza
  • Boro Hi
  • Botany Woods
  • Brandon Hill
  • Briar Gate
  • Camberley
  • Camden Crossing
  • Camelot
  • Cardinal Crossing
  • Carlington Estates
  • Carnes Crossing
  • Carriage Place
  • Cedar Tree
  • Chads Landing
  • Chestnut Lake Estates
  • Chimneys
  • Clayton Highlands
  • Corinth Place
  • Country Lane South
  • Crestwicke Crossing
  • Curries Crossing
  • Dads Farm
  • Deer Crossing
  • Deerfield Meadows
  • Dixie
  • Drakes Landing
  • Duck Pond
  • Edgemoor West
  • Edgewater
  • Elon Farm
  • Embrey Hills
  • Emerald Glen
  • Emerald Hills
  • Evergreen
  • Ewing Estates
  • Fairfield
  • Falling Waters
  • Fireside
  • Flint River Estates
  • Flint River Forest
  • Flintfield
  • Flippen Hills
  • Forest Estates
  • Forest Knoll
  • Four Winds East
  • Fox Fire
  • Fox Run
  • Freeman Estates
  • Gardens at Lovejoy
  • Gatewood
  • George Maddox
  • Georgetown Commons
  • Glen at Fairchild
  • Glen Devon Estates
  • Gold Leaf
  • Grand Oaks
  • Greenwood Hills
  • Hawthorne Grove
  • Hearthstone
  • Heather Ridge
  • Heritage Ridge
  • Hidden Creek
  • Hidden Hollow
  • High Point
  • Highland Park
  • Hillcrest Holmes
  • Hillcrest Homes
  • Hillpine
  • Hilltop
  • Hynds Springs
  • Independence Square
  • Indian Hills Estates
  • Irongate
  • Ivy Glen
  • Ivy Place at Hawthorn
  • Ivygate
  • Jacksons Crossing
  • Jamestown Square
  • Jesters Lake
  • Jodeco Estates
  • Jodeco Forest
  • Jonesboro Heights
  • Kendrick Forest
  • Keystone Woods
  • Lake Jodeco
  • Lake Spivey Estates
  • Lake Tara
  • Ledfords Pond
  • Lees Ridge
  • Lexington Green
  • Longwood
  • Lost Valley
  • March Harbor
  • Markland
  • Marlborough
  • Marsh Harbor
  • Mercer Heights
  • Mundys Mill
  • Mundys Overlook
  • North Bend
  • North Shore
  • North Shore Lak Spivey
  • North Shore Lake Spive
  • Oak Forest
  • Oak Trace
  • Ohara Pointe
  • Old Ivey Place
  • Old Jonesboro Landing
  • Olde Oak
  • Olde Town Villages
  • Orchard Hills
  • Overlook at Camp Creek
  • Park Place
  • Park Villas
  • Parkwood
  • Patriots Pointe
  • Peachtree Place
  • Pebble Creek
  • Picara Point
  • Pine Trace
  • Pine Woods
  • Pointe South Condos
  • Raintree
  • River Mist
  • River Oaks
  • Riverbend
  • Rivergate
  • Rosewood Estates
  • Runnymede
  • Runnymede Estates
  • Santa Ana
  • Sherwood Forest
  • South Fulton Construction
  • South Porte
  • Southglen
  • Spivey Chase
  • Spivey Club
  • Spivey Cove
  • Spivey Glen
  • Spivey Orchard
  • Spivey Ridge
  • St Andrews
  • Stanebrook
  • Stillwater Estates
  • Sunny Brook
  • Sunnydale
  • Sussex Manor
  • Sweetbriar at Lake Jodeco
  • Tanglewood Estates
  • Tara Country Club Estates
  • Tara Pointe
  • The Avery
  • The Country Place
  • The Gardens at Lovejoy
  • The Landings at Lake Spivey
  • The Landings at Mundys
  • The Links
  • The Oaks at Walnut Creek
  • The Retreat at Ohara
  • The Village at Tara
  • Thomas Downs
  • Thornton Estates
  • Thornwood
  • Tiffany Hills
  • Tiffany Trail
  • Valley Stream
  • Vintage Pointe
  • Walnut Creek
  • Waterford Downs
  • Waterford Pointe
  • Waverly
  • Wellington
  • Wesley Park
  • Weybridge
  • Wilshire Estates
  • Winchester
  • Windemere Woods
  • Windwoods
  • Wrights Landing
  • Wrights Walk
  • Wynfield

Beginnings [1]

The area that would become Jonesboro began as a country village named Leaksville, the origin of which dates to the early 1800s. In 1846 the Macon and Western Railroad completed a line between Macon and Atlanta, commencing regular rail service. Leaksville was a station stop along that line.

One of the civil engineers who worked on the creation of the line, Colonel Samuel Goode Jones, took an interest in the future of Leaksville and began to lay out new streets in the village. The village was renamed Jonesboro in his honor about 1845. Jonesboro was incorporated as a town in 1859. A steady growth of new businesses occurred until the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861.

After the war Jonesboro began rebuilding the courthouse, train depot and many other buildings that had been scarred or destroyed. During the 1880s the town regained a position of stable business and agriculture.

Jonesboro received international attention in 1936, with the publication of Margaret Mitchell's novel, Gone with The Wind. Numerous scenes of this book were set in Clayton County. The characters and their homes were products of the author's imagination, and only their inspirational prototypes may be found in the county today.

  1. City of Jonesboro, City History, www.jonesboroga.com, accessed October, 2011.

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