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Griffin is a city in west-central Georgia and the county seat of Spalding County, forming the southernmost part of the Atlanta metropolitan area.

Griffin was founded in 1840 and named for Colonel Lewis Lawrence Griffin, a banker, planter, and first president of the Macon and Western Railroad, who bought 800 acres in the area and laid out the town.

The settlement was known as Pleasant Grove until 1841, was first settled in the mid-1820s, and was incorporated in 1843 while still part of Pike County.

The Macon and Western Railroad was extended to Griffin in 1842, and the town grew into a cotton distribution center and later a leading textile manufacturing center.

The 2020 census counted 23,478 people in Griffin, and recent Census Bureau survey estimates put the city at roughly 9,500 households.

Griffin's most famous native is John Henry "Doc" Holliday, the dentist, gambler, and gunfighter of O.K. Corral fame, who was born in Griffin on August 14, 1851, and later briefly practiced dentistry there.

Downtown Griffin preserves the Griffin Commercial Historic District, eight blocks of 19th- and early 20th-century buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and the city's 1859 Italianate first Spalding County courthouse is one of only about fifteen antebellum courthouses remaining in Georgia.

The Stonewall Confederate Cemetery and Memorial Park in Griffin was created by local women who collected and reburied Confederate dead from the battles of Atlanta and Jonesboro.

Higher education in Griffin includes Southern Crescent Technical College, whose administrative campus is in the city — the college traces back to Griffin Technical College, which began classes in 1963 — and a branch campus of the University of Georgia.

Griffin students attend the Griffin-Spalding County School District, which enrolls more than 10,600 students across eleven elementary schools, four middle schools, and three high schools, including Griffin High School.