DeKalb County including the cities of Decatur, Stone Mountain, Lithonia, Clarkston.

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Before Fulton County, there was DeKalb County; before Atlanta, there was Decatur

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DeKalb was established as Georgia's 56th county and is situated on a natural ridge that runs between Atlanta and Athens, the Continental Divide. The southern boundary is the South River and the northern boundary is the Hightower Trail, a trading path used by Indians. The county has 269 square miles. more DeKalb was established from parts of Henry, Fayette and Gwinnett Counties with the General Assembly of the State of Georgia appointing five commissioners who picked land lot 246 in the 15th militia district as the county site. The county was named after Baron Johann de Kolb, a native of Germany and self proclaimed baron who aided the colonists in their fight for independence. The county seat land lot 246 was named for Stephen Decatur, a naval hero in the War of 1812. DeKalb was already organized into militia districts with justices of the Inferior Courts and justices of the peace retained their offices. Captains of the militia districts often served as judges and tax collectors for the districts as well. Some of these early militia districts included the Diamond District, the Browning District and the Shallowford District. The City of Atlanta, in its infancy and until 1853 when Fulton County was created, was entirely in DeKalb County.

The early settlers of DeKalb were of English, Scotch and Irish descent coming from Virginia and the Carolinas, poor, not highly educated but hardworking, small farmers living in log cabins and owning few slaves, most of them owning no slaves at all. The few DeKalb residents who did own slaves had them to work cotton and food crops; very few households had house servants. DeKalb was never a plantation system, and in fact, the two DeKalb Delegates to the convention on secession voted no on secession.

In July of 1864, DeKalb had its first taste of the war; much of the battle of Atlanta actually took place in DeKalb County along DeKalb Avenue.

Chief of the industries during the early years in DeKalb were granite quarrying, farming, dairy farming and cotton mills and grain mills. Land near the South River produced 1000 or more pounds of cotton per acre, and the county was one of the largest milk producers in the southeast. Large truck farms supplied vegetables throughout the region. Development in DeKalb in the early years was along the rivers and along the railroads from the county site, Decatur, east to Stone Mountain and south east to Lithonia. The first three cities were Decatur, Stone Mountain and Lithonia.

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