Biohazard Cleanup Near Cheyenne Estates Austell, GA

Austell began as Salt Springs, a small resort destination whose mineral springs drew visitors seeking therapeutic cures in the 19th century.

Developer G. O. Mozely subdivided 40 acres at Salt Springs, and the Georgia Pacific Railway built a station there at the dividing point of its Birmingham and Chattanooga lines, turning the springs stop into a railroad town.

Austell was incorporated in 1885 and named for General Alfred Austell, the founder of the Atlanta National Bank.

The 2020 census counted 7,713 people in Austell, a city of about six square miles that spans Cobb County and part of Douglas County, west of Atlanta.

Sweetwater Creek, a tributary of the Chattahoochee River, flows through Austell.

In September 2009, catastrophic flooding on Sweetwater Creek during the historic Atlanta-area floods destroyed many homes and businesses in Austell.

Six Flags Over Georgia, the 290-acre theme park that opened on June 16, 1967, as the second park in the Six Flags chain, sits just outside Austell and carries an Austell mailing address.

Austell's historic downtown grew up around its railroad depot, a legacy of the era when the Georgia Pacific line made the town a shipping point for surrounding farms.