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Newnan, Georgia was incorporated on December 20, 1828, and established the same year as the county seat of Coweta County, replacing the defunct town of Bullsboro.

Newnan was named for General Daniel Newnan, a North Carolinian who served in the Creek and Patriot wars.

The land around Newnan was Lower Creek (Muscogee) territory, ceded to Georgia in the Treaty of Indian Springs of 1825.

Newnan's official motto is the 'City of Homes.'

The 2020 census counted 42,549 people in Newnan, up from 33,039 in 2010, and Census Bureau QuickFacts lists 17,180 households in the city for 2020-2024.

Newnan was largely untouched by the Civil War because it served as a hospital city where both Union and Confederate wounded were treated, which preserved much of its antebellum architecture.

Newnan's well-preserved antebellum and Victorian homes fill its historic residential districts, a legacy of its wartime role as a hospital town.

Newnan sits about 40 miles southwest of Atlanta on Interstate 85, in the fast-growing southwestern arc of the Atlanta metropolitan area.

The University of West Georgia operates an off-campus center in Newnan, extending the Carrollton-based university's reach into Coweta County.

Newnan is home to the Coweta County African American Heritage Museum and Research Center, housed in the historic Caswell House.