And more importantly, why does it matter?
A little about Lilburn...
Lilburn is a little city in the suburbs of Atlanta, GA, in southern Gwinnett County. It is the home of Parkview High School and Berkmar High School. And while the City of Lilburn has about 11,000 people (as of the 2000 Census... it has grown since then), there are a couple time that many people with a Lilburn mailing address. In fact, the most recent numbers show over 53,000 people residing in 30047, Lilburn's ZIP code.
The City of Lilburn was founded by the Seabord Airline Railway in 1890, but it was previously called McDaniel (until around 1900). It was renamed in honor of Lilburn Trigg Myers, a Superintendent of the railroad, and incorporated on July 27th, 1910. In the 1920s, Lilburn suffered a devastating fire, then the boll weevil killed the cotton crop in the area. The result was that shortly after the stock market cresh of 1929, the government "ceased to exist". It wasn't until a new water line was needed in 1955 that the city government was re-organized.
There is more to an area than just history...
Every town has a little history... but that is only part of what makes up a town. In addition to schools, parks and all sorts of other local amenities also are very important to a community and the quality of life.
Gwinnett County Parks were names the #1 Parks & Recreation Agency in the country by National Recreation & Park Association in 2009. Several of those parks are in Lilburn including the Mountain Park Aquatic Center, Mountain Park Park, the Harmony grove Soccer Complex, Lions Club Park and the Lilburn City ParK and Greenway.
Notably, Lilburn is also home to BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, which is the largest Hindu Temple outside of India, and the 3rd largest in the World.
And a Local Character...
General Beauregard Lee has called Lilburn home for a couple of decades. He rose to fame because of his accurac in predicting the extension of Winter... He only works on February 2nd each year, and has "advised" Willard Scott, and been awarded honorary doctorates from The University of Georgia – "DWP, Doctor of Weather Prognostication" and Georgia State University – "Doctor of Southern Groundology."
He lives at the Yellow River Game Ranch. Aside from "Beau", there are lots of friendly critters wandering around. Ducks, squirrels, rabbits and deer are all wandering around the park, and are all really friendly. There are also bison, coyotes, fox and bears among others that are not wandering around being friendly... but are available for observation.
And you can live here too...
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Lane, that is one interesting little town you have there! Liburn, GA - who woulda' thunk it?
Nice little history of Lilburn. And that is amazing about the largest Hindu Temple outside India being there.
Lane...first and foremost...what a totally cool post!!! I certainly know things about Lilburn I did not know before....especially like to learn how all our cute little towns got their names!
And I've been to that temple...is is simply amazing!
See ya in a few!
Lane I love how you put your article together on Lilburn Georgia. You did a really nice job!
Thank you all - Lilburn is a cool place to live and work. It is full of great people and close to so much more.