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City Hall
Overall Map of Walton
County Walton County is approximately diamond shaped.
Picture a diamond standing on one vertex then beginning with the top
or North end of the county as Vertex 1 and counting clockwise to the right
we would have Gratis
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Walter
FREEMAN
ALCOVY
MOUNTAIN
BETWEEN770-267-4007--Photo--Donated
by: Denise Murphy
Between, GA 30655
1990 Population: 82 ... 1995 Population: 106 *InfoTid-Bit--(West-Central)
located about halfway between ("Between"-get it?) Monroe and Loganville
at the intersections of New Hope Church Rd and US 78. Between very
small and is hard to find for someone who isn't a local. BOLD
SPRINGS Variant names: Bold
Spring, & Williamsville BOSTICK *InfoTid-Bit--Good
Hope (East) about halfway out from the center of the diamond to Vertex
2 (East). It is at the intersection of Pleasant Valley Rd and
Ga Hwy 83. A little further southeast on Hwy 83 in Morgan County
you would come to Bostwick which is a great but very small place with a
working cotton gin. The cotton festival is the first Saturday in
October. Used to have a good little restaurant.
BRADLEY
CAMPTON
Variant name: Camps Station
Population (1990): 3010
Location: 33.87627 N, 83.72956 W
Zip Code(s): 30211 30655
CARUTHERS
MILL CLEATON(historical)
EBENEZER
Variant name: Ebernezer
GOOD
HOPE 770-267-3819
Good Hope, GA 61438
1990 Population: 181 ... 1995 Population: 179 *InfoTid-BitGood
Hope (East) about halfway out from the center of the diamond to Vertex
2 (East). Good Hope is another very small community with just flashing
light and a store or two and a few houses.
It is at the intersection of Pleasant Valley Rd and Ga Hwy 83. A relatively flat
part of the county with a lot of pastures and old cotton fields.
GRATIS
Variant name: Free *InfoTid-BitGratis
(North-northeast) near the top of the county and at the intersection of Shoal Creek and Gratis Rds. Gratis
is very small.
HERNDONVILLE
JERSEY
770-267-5771
Jersey, GA 30235
1990 Population: 149 ... 1995 Population: 145 *InfoTid-BitJersey
(South-southwest) between vertices 3 & 4 at the intersections of Monroe-Jersey Rd and Alcovy Station Rds.
A very small place with a couple of gas stations-convenience stores (old
style--come and visit a spell), a dentist office in the old bank and a
curio shop. It has a small restaurant--nothing fancy.
LOGANVILLE
Variant name:Buncombe
P.O. Box 39
Loganville, GA 30249
770- 466-1165 or 770-466-4734 FAX: 770- 466-0904
1990 Population: 3180 ... 1995 Population: 3,506
Also in Gwinnett County, GA
*InfoTid-BitLoganville
(West-northwest just above Vertex 4 on the Walton-Gwinnett County Line) Loganville lies at the
intersections of Ga 20, Ga 81 and US 78. The latter road is a four lane road and is quite
busy. It was the main road between Atlanta-Decatur and Athens
for as long as I can remember. The North and western sides of the county are growing fast with
all sorts of new developments. Loganville has quite a few stores
but still has a small downtown area that isn't as charming as some others
such as Social Circle, in my opinion. It has a fair size lumber building
supply company, a shut down Kuppenheimer Factory store. A number
of good but small country restaurants and the usual faster food places
are springing up like weeds all around Loganville. This is one of
the fastest growing parts of the county. There is a good country
buffet restaurant going west out of Loganville towards Snellville (in southern
Gwinnett County) on the left "Journey's End" that has passable food.
Get there before 6 to get the early discount and a seat! I recommend
the catfish and hushpuppies if you can push through the crowds. It
is good, but only three bowls of turnip greens in my book.
MONROE*
P.O. Box 1249
Monroe, GA 30655
770-267-7536 FAX: 770-267-2319
1990 Population: 9,759 ... 1995 Population: 13,160
**Walton county court house is located here. *InfoTid-BitMonroe
(center of the diamond and center of the county; also the county seat) Monroe was a major cotton town
for many years and still boasts a denim mill. A drive around town
reveals a lot of old, almost abandoned buildings that were once part of
the cotton industry there. A charming little town that is growing
up-fast. It has ante-bellum homes tucked into a neighborhood
on the west side of town out towards the hospital and country club along
with a number of other attractions and points of interest. The building boom in
the metro Atlanta area is affecting Monroe mostly to the North and the
Northeast along US 78. Youth, Walnut Grove and Social Circle are
also experiencing a lot of change. But Loganville is at the vanguard
of the teeming hordes seeking sanctuary from Atlanta and the suburban sprawl
that has engulfed Gwinnett and Dekalb to the West and North and Rockdale
County to the Southwest.
MOUNT
VERNON
NICHOLASVILLE
Variant name: Nickelville
OVERLOOK
POINT (subdivision)
PANNELL
Variant names: Cowpens, & Easleys
Cowpens
SNOWS
MILL Variant name: Wesley *InfoTid-BitSplit
between Walton County & Oconee County. SOCIAL
CIRCLE
P.O. Box 310
Social Circle, GA 30279
770-464-2380 or 770- 464-2953 FAX: 770-464-2113
1990 Population: 2,755 ... 1995 Population: 2,807 *InfoTid-BitSocial
Circle (Due South at Vertex 3). Social Circle is a good size town of maybe 1,500 people (a guess) A wonderful
place that lives up to its name. It has among other attractions, a old style set of
stores that line both sides of the main street which have now become mostly
antique and curio stores. It boasts a restaurant which has been in business for about 7-8 years now,
in an old restored turn of the century house with big white columns--Billie's Blue
Willow Inn. (Visit their web site for some pictures and charm.) The Blue
Willow is a popular place to eat with people coming from miles and miles
around to partake of the rich bounty of southern cookin' buffet style. (No kiddin; people do travel
quite a distance to eat there. Billie and Louis Van Dyke have a gold
mine--and their chicken 'n dumplings ain't half bad neither.) The late Southern writer and humorist, Lewis Grizzard,
put the restaurant and the town on the map by awarding it his highest honor--5
bowls of turnip greens! It has been packed ever since. You can come
and set a spell on the verandah in amongst the white columns in the big
rockin chairs or just sit down for a moment to recover enough after one
of their meals to make the walk back to your car parked
in amongst the shady pecan trees in the back and side yard.
A beautiful town of some restored ante-bellum homes many of which are open
for tours around Christmas. If you haven't been there, do that!
As we often say in the South, "You caint hep but lik it!" (Pronounce
the "i" in like as a long vowel!) The town got its name as it was a stop on
a major trail during the early 1800s where people would camp for the night
around a spring there. The campers would visit around a community
fire and when one apocryphal traveler remarked that this was a very "social
circle, indeed", the name stuck. There is a replica well in the center
of the main street which commemorates the town's origins.
SPLIT
SILK
WALKER
PARK
WALNUT
GROVE
P.O. Box 890005
Walnut Grove, GA 30209
770-787-0046
1990 Population: 458 ... 1995 Population: 740 *InfoTid-BitWalnut
Grove (West-southwest) at the intersections of Walnut Grove Rd (Hwy 138)
and Ga 81. Walnut Grove has the ubiquitous gas station-convenience stores, a drugstore, and a couple of used
car lots. It also has a respectable Barbecue place. That's
pig-pork barbecue for those who are not true followers. If you don't
believe me, you can look it up in your copy of the Code of the South!
Yes, it has the look--unpaved parking lot, a lot of pickup trucks, and
not much in the way of decor. That is how you know you can get some
decent "Q". Red-checkered oil table cloths and waitress with
uniforms with the top and bottoms mismatched also help to identify the
real thing.
WHITNEY
Variant name: Gresham Station
WINDSOR
YOUTH *InfoTid-BitYouth
is West, about halfway out from the center of the diamond to the western
vertex; also about 3 miles North on Hwy 83 from Walnut Grove at the intersection
of Center Hill Church-Youth Monroe Rd and Hwy 83. Two gas station-convenience
stores and a flashing light. It also has a big elevated water
tank and the county water authority office in an old converted school
building with granite walls. The remnants of an old cotton mill can
be seen just to the right of the intersection past the flashing light
as you proceed North on Hwy 83 towards Loganville. Youth also has
some recent additions including some new shops between the Youth store
and Crowe's store (the two gas-convenience stations) and an Italian
restaurant which is about halfway between Youth and Loganville between
Spring Valley Rd and Tom Brewer Rd. I (Walter) haven't had the occasion
to eat there but have heard it is pretty good.
