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Sharpsburg is a small town in east-central Coweta County, Georgia, in the west-central Georgia Piedmont, and is part of the Atlanta metropolitan area.

The community was founded in 1825 but was not incorporated until December 13, 1871, when the Georgia General Assembly chartered it as a town.

Sharpsburg was named for Judge Elias Sharp, one of the original town commissioners, who owned one of the first homes in the community and helped incorporate it.

The town's original city limits were circular, extending a quarter-mile radius from the depot of the Savannah, Griffin and North Alabama Railroad, which was completed through the area in 1870 and boosted the local cotton economy.

In its heyday, Sharpsburg had a bank, drugstore, and cotton gins, but the community declined after the Great Depression as residents left in search of work.

The 2020 census counted just 327 people in the incorporated town, down slightly from 341 in 2010; the 2000 census recorded 316 people in 125 households.

Although the incorporated town holds only a few hundred residents, the surrounding Sharpsburg ZIP code area (30277) in eastern Coweta County is home to roughly 22,000 people, a contrast locals call "metropolitan Sharpsburg."

Sharpsburg's municipal growth has been limited by its small land area and lack of sewer infrastructure, since Coweta County provides that service to area residents.

Notable people from tiny Sharpsburg include NFL linebacker Keith Brooking, Olympic archer Janet Dykman, and actor Josh Andrew Koenig.