Fulton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. Its county seat is Atlanta, the state capital since 1868 and the principal city of the Atlanta metropolitan area. At the 2000 United States Census, the population was 816,006. In 2009, the Census Bureau's population estimate was 1,020,104, making Fulton County the first in Georgia to reach the one-million mark.
Fulton County is the most populous county in Georgia and is the core coun...
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Fulton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. Its county seat is Atlanta, the state capital since 1868 and the principal city of the Atlanta metropolitan area. At the 2000 United States Census, the population was 816,006. In 2009, the Census Bureau's population estimate was 1,020,104, making Fulton County the first in Georgia to reach the one-million mark.
Fulton County is the most populous county in Georgia and is the core county of the Atlanta metropolitan area.
Fulton County was created from the western half of DeKalb County in 1853.
During General William T. Sherman's March to the Sea during the Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War, Sherman spared Roswell because he had a cousin who lived there. As a result, Roswell has more pre-Civil War historical buildings than anywhere else in north Georgia.
The county's name is often assumed to be in honor of inventor Robert Fulton, who, among many other inventions, built a steamboat in 1807. This assumption is likely...
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