On this site through the early teens of the last century, there was an alley used to access businesses off of main street, including Arthur Maloney's corn mill which was located in the area directly Behind these buildings. It also led to one of the . . . — — Map (db m213023) HM
Sunset Drive, originally known as Church Street, and later Holy Row has a long and storied past. On November 5, 1875 Norman Flavius Cooledge, an educator, bought the parcel of land (currently the site of the Summerour House) on the corner of . . . — — Map (db m44073) HM
Original site
McElroy & Nesbit
Furniture Company
Manufacturer of desks and desks; later site of a feed store operated by the Ivy family 1946 - 1972 — — Map (db m213012) HM
Original site
Will Carlyle's
Store
One of the few shops in town to sell ice in the days before refrigeration; Carlyle also served as deputy sheriff. — — Map (db m213014) HM
Original site
Norcross Masonic
Lodge 228 F&AM
During the 1950's the 1st floor was the site of the Swan Theater, operated by Raymond & Estelle Ziebell. — — Map (db m213005) HM
Original site
Offices of Rube Gant
& Claud Morton
R.A. Gant was a cotton broker & talented checker player; Morton was the local Justice of the Peace. — — Map (db m213006) HM
This American Elm tree was designated as a Georgia Champion Tree in April, 1999, by the Georgia Forestry Commission. At the time of its inclusion on the list of State Champion Trees, the circumference measured 198 inches, the height was 79 feet, and . . . — — Map (db m212995) HM
On this site in 1870, the Brunswick Hotel was constructed. The Hotel was three stories high with wide porches on the first two stories. It had 29 rooms and a restaurant. The Hotel was a destination spot for vacationing Atlantans wanting to escape . . . — — Map (db m14091) HM
On May 17, 1872, seventeen people convened in the Community House on Church Street or “Holy Row,” now called Sunset Drive, in the fledgling town of Norcross. During the meeting, this inspired group organized The Baptist Church of Christ . . . — — Map (db m16961) HM
Local landowner Milton C. Lively donated the land in the central part of today's cemetery for a burial ground around the time the city was established in 1870 and the road connecting it to the town became known as Cemetery Street.
At one time, . . . — — Map (db m213024) HM
As a pioneer for women in Norcross and Gwinnett County politics, Lillian Webb built a distinguished career that stretched nearly sixty years and spanned local, county, state, and national levels. She began her activism in 1950 as an organizer, . . . — — Map (db m212993) HM
The Norcross Historic District has been preserved as a 19th century railroad town, and its historical significance has been recognized by the U. S. Department of the Interior through its listing on the National Register of Historic Places on . . . — — Map (db m35039) HM
Norcross was founded as a railroad town in 1870 with the expansion of the Richmond-Danville Railroad out of Atlanta. It quickly became known as a resort town for vacationing Atlantans wishing to leave the city. The Train Depot was built in 1909 to . . . — — Map (db m213001) HM
Norcross was established in 1870 by John J. Thrasher, a railroad builder, entrepreneur, and one of the early pioneers who started the settlement of Marthasville, now known as Atlanta. In 1870, he headed north, bought land to build a home and founded . . . — — Map (db m214496) HM
Originally chartered in 1833 by the Fairview Presbyterian Church of Lawrenceville, the church was originally located at the intersection of Beaver Ruin Road and Hopkins Mill Road on land donated by Thomas H. Jones and was known as the Goshen . . . — — Map (db m23285) HM
In February 1907, the Norcross Woman's Club took on the challenge of forming a public library. The Norcross library, Gwinnett County's first, opened on July 1, 1907 In a small room in the public schoolhouse. The library's primary benefactor was Mr. . . . — — Map (db m213000) HM
On this site during the late ninteenth century, a professional-size baseball field was constructed. Known for many years as simply "the ball ground, this park became the center of the community every summer in Norcross. From 1910-1950s Norcross . . . — — Map (db m212994) HM
In the early 1900s cotton was the main cash crop for farmers in Georgia, and to prepare their harvest for market their cotton bolls had to be run through a machine called a cotton gin to separate the fiber from the seeds. The Summerour Cotton Gin, . . . — — Map (db m212992) HM
Norcross was chartered in 1870 through its founder, J.J. "Cousin John" Thrasher, and named for his good friend, Jonathon Norcross, the fourth mayor (1851) of Atlanta. "Cousin John" purchased tracts of land which he subdivided and sold as lots along . . . — — Map (db m12880) HM
The Eastern Continental Divide is a naturally occurring high ridge in the eastern United States that separates falling water into streams and rivers that flow into either the Atlantic Ocean or the Gulf of Mexico. The ridge begins in the Allegheny . . . — — Map (db m212999) HM
Original Site
39 South Peachtree Street
Area originally served as a pass thru to Skin Alley in rear later a restaurant was added finally, the building housed City Hall
Circa 1940 — — Map (db m221158) HM
Norcross was incorporated in 1870
by John J. Thrasher, a pioneer Atlanta settler who named this town after his good friend and business associate, Jonathan Norcross. The town of Norcross was the second city in Gwinnett County, and the first . . . — — Map (db m221159) HM
