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Alpharetta is located in metropolitan Atlanta, approximately twenty-five miles north of the city in the foothills of the north Georgia mountains. The Alpharetta area was first part of Cherokee County and then, for almost seventy-five years, part of Milton County, which in turn became part of Fulton County in the early 1930s. In earlier years the rural citizens around Alpharetta thrived on cotton production, and the townspeople on family businesses and shops. Today the countryside boasts horse farms, upscale residences, and eleven country clubs; the city attracts national and international corporate headquarters and has an employment base of 67,000.
The Pioneers
Natural springs attracted the Cherokee Indians to the area. After the state distributed the Cherokee lands to whites in an 1832 lottery, the spot became a stopover for white pioneers traveling between the mountain communities and the railroad terminus that was eventually named Atlanta. Trading posts were common, and bartering was a way of life.
Originally a conglomeration of tents called New Prospect Camp Ground, Alpharetta was incorporated in 1858, when it became the county seat for the newly created Milton County. Today many north Fulton County streets and roads—for example, Bates, Broadwell, Dorris, Hembree, Mansell, Maxwell, Mayfield, Phillips, Rucker, Webb, Wills—are named for the pioneering families of the Alpharetta area.
