Duluth City, Gwinnett County, Georgia (GA)

Duluth City

Gwinnett County, Georgia

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Duluth City Hall is located at 3167 Main Street, Duluth, GA 30096.
Phone: 770‑476‑3434.

Neighborhoods

  • Abbotts Pointe
  • Beechwood Hills
  • Brookhaven at Sugarloaf
  • Abbotts Bridge
  • Abbotts Falls
  • Abbotts Mill
  • Abbotts Ridge Place
  • Abbotts Run
  • Abbotts View
  • Amberleigh
  • Ammersee Lakes
  • Ashley Oaks
  • Ashley Square
  • Ashmore
  • Barkley Square
  • Baxley Ridge
  • Bellemont Farms
  • Bentwood at Sugarloaf
  • Berkeley Creek
  • Berkeley Crossing
  • Berkeley Downs
  • Berkeley Forest
  • Berkeley Hills
  • Berkeley Junction
  • Berkeley Lake Estates
  • Berkeley Manor
  • Berkeley Mill
  • Berkeley Park
  • Berkeley Trails
  • Berkeley Walk
  • Berkeley Woods
  • Berkely Manor
  • Berkshire at Sugarloaf
  • Boles Farm
  • Breckinridge
  • Breckinridge Station
  • Brenn Ridge
  • Bridlewood
  • Bromolow Creek
  • Bromolow Ridge
  • Bromolow Woods
  • Brookfield Chase
  • Cambridge Park
  • Canterbury Woods
  • Cardinal Lake
  • Cardinal Lake Estates
  • Carriage Gate
  • Carriage Park
  • Castlemaine
  • Centurion Hills
  • Charleston
  • Charleston Bay
  • Charleston Row
  • Chateau De Roi
  • Chattahoocee Reserve
  • Chattahoochee Cove
  • Chattahoochee Hills
  • Chattahoochee Landing
  • Chattahoochee Reserve
  • Claiborne Manor
  • Covered Bridge
  • Creekport Estates
  • Cresswell
  • Devonhall
  • Duluth Place
  • Duncans Cove
  • Enclave at Foxdale
  • Ennfield
  • Findley Chase
  • Forest Knoll Estates
  • Forest Manor
  • Forest Manor North
  • Garden Hill
  • Gates at Crestwood
  • Glenhurst
  • Glenside
  • Governors Landing
  • Gravitt Place
  • Grove Park
  • Grovemont
  • Hamilton Pointe
  • Hampton Arbors
  • Hampton Hall
  • Hampton Place
  • Haven at Sugarloaf
  • Heritage Walk
  • Hermitage Plantation
  • Hickory Estates
  • Hickory Ridge
  • Highgate
  • Hopkins Mill
  • Howell Glen
  • Howell Park
  • Howell Wood
  • Hunters Trace
  • Huntington
  • Ingram Point
  • Ivy Station
  • Lake at Berkeley Hills
  • Lake Villas
  • Lakeside at Berkeley
  • Landings at Sugarloaf
  • Laurelwood
  • Lemon Tree
  • Mcclure Bridge
  • Mcclure Place
  • Millerbrook Farms
  • Montclair
  • Myers Park
  • Newbury Park
  • Nours Landing
  • Old Peachtree Plantation
  • Olde Towne Residences
  • Olde Towne Village
  • Orchards at Duluth
  • Overlook
  • Palisades
  • Pallisade
  • Park at Cambridge
  • Parkside
  • Parsons Plantation
  • Parsons Run
  • Parsons Walk
  • Peachtree Bluff
  • Pine Creek Forest
  • Pony Run
  • Preserve at Sugarloaf
  • Quail Hollow Estates
  • Regency at Cambridge
  • Regency at Sugarloaf Ridge
  • Reynolds Walk
  • Richwood
  • River District
  • River District
  • River Plantation
  • River Walk
  • Riverbrooke
  • Riverview
  • Riverview Estates
  • Riverwood
  • Rogers Mill
  • Saint Marlo Country Club
  • Shadowcreek
  • Simpsons Commons
  • St Ives Country Club
  • St Marlo Country Club
  • Stanton Court
  • Stephens Hills
  • Stillwater Plantation
  • Stonebrier at Sugarloaf
  • Sugar Mill
  • Sugarloaf Country Club
  • Sugarloaf Country Club
  • Sweet Bottom Plantation
  • Sweetwater Commons
  • Sweetwater Park Townhomes
  • The Fairways
  • The Glen at Olde Towne
  • The Overlook
  • Thornhill Commons
  • Towne Park Place
  • Turnbury Oaks
  • Village at Ablion Farms
  • Villages at Old Norcross
  • Villas at Riverbrooke
  • Wellington Lake
  • Whispering Meadows
  • Whitney Park
  • Willbrooke
  • Willowstone
  • Windsong Trace
  • Windsor Court
  • Woodbridge
  • Woodehaven

Beginnings [1]

The name of the city of Duluth, Minnesota, was inspired by a French captain and explorer, Daniel Greysolon Du Luth (1636-1710). He was born in Saint Germain Laval (Loire-France), a small village about fifty miles from Lyons. He negotiated and signed peace between Saulters and Sioux nations in the area of the city of Duluth, Minnesota, on September 15th, in 1679. The city was called Duluth in his memory. He died in Montreal in 1710.

In early eighteenth century Georgia in the area of the current City of Duluth, there were no known white settlers. The Duluth area was then a part of the Cherokee Indian territory and was an important crossroads used by the native Americans. In 1818 Gwinnett County was created by an act of the General Assembly of Georgia and the area was opened to white settlers.

In 1821, Evan Howell, the city of Duluth's forefather, developed the town of Howell Crossing that later evolved into a major artery for the railroad. With the visionary acumen of his grandson, Evan P. Howell, changes were on the horizon in 1873. The opportunity to build and link a railway system from North to South was about to unfold. Representative J. Proctor Knott delivered a speech to the United States House of Representatives entitled, "The Glory of Duluth." The pitch of his presentation weighed heavily with Congress and consequently a bill to finance the building of the railroad from Howell Crossing to Duluth, Minnesota was enacted. Grateful for the opportunity to build on a vision, Howell deemed it appropriate to rename the town of Howell Crossing "Duluth."

At the time that Evan Howell came to the area, there was only one road opened in the section. This was the Peachtree Road, an offshoot of an old native American trail that ran along the bridge south of the Chattahoochee River. The road had been surveyed and constructed during the War of 1812 and connected Fort Daniel with the fort at Standing Peachtree, 30 miles down river.

Howell realized that more roads were needed in order for the area to develop, so he obtained permission in February 1833 to construct a road from the Chattahoochee River across his land to intersect Peachtree Road. This intersection became known as Howell's Cross Roads and was known by this name for forty years.

Howell ran his own plantation and cotton gin by ferry, and he became the town's first merchant. There are no known descendants with the Howell name currently in Duluth; however, he was the great-grandfather of the late Jack and Calvin Parsons and other descendants who became publishers of the Atlanta Constitution newspaper.

Several important dates in the history of the City of Duluth are recounted below:


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