They were subsistence farmers who were not highly educated and usually lived in log cabins. Decatur was incorporated as the county seat on December 10, Its location was a trading post at the intersection of two Indian trails. Decatur also has a large gay and lesbian population who were attracted by the city's liberal values and proximity to Atlanta. In fact, according to the Census, ZIP code which includes Decatur has one of the highest percentage of households with same sex couples in Georgia.
Dekalb County has one of the largest concentrations of same sex couples in the nation. About 7. The current mayor is William F. Ball of Da Muzicianz - Rapper. American FactFinder. United States Census Bureau. Retrieved on US Board on Geographic Names. United States Geological Survey US Gazetteer files: and United States Census Bureau Share this Snippet. Star Featured Content. Hank Aaron Baseball. Trending Trending.
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Textile Industry 2 weeks ago. Listen Now. Info Details Citation Terms of Use Downtown Decatur is surrounded by historic neighborhoods reflecting a variety of architectural styles, including Craftsman bungalows, Victorian and Tudor homes, and townhouses. Photograph by Melinda G. Smith, New Georgia Encyclopedia.
Arrow left. In these new suburbs, the focus of family activities changed from the front-porch society of the nineteenth-century to residences oriented toward private back yards, large enough for gardening, gathering, and play. No longer needing to follow the grid of a railroad or trolley line, roads in these new suburbs tended to follow the natural topography, with winding, hilly streets. In the years between and , evidence of the popularity of the garden suburb in Decatur can be seen in the neighborhoods of Lenox Place, Greenwood-Pattillo-Howard, West Clairemont, Oakhurst, and Adair Park.
Other examples of these newer garden suburbs developed during this time include Great Lakes, Glennwood Estates, and College Heights. Development continued from the s into the s in outlying residential neighborhoods.
Many of these new residences were built in the popular ranch style. The ranch house, once overlooked as a common, indistinct house type, has recently been recognized as a classic American style that represents the age and culture of the s and s. Leila Ross Wilburn, who attended Agnes Scott College, was one of only two women registered as an architect in Atlanta in Wilburn designed and built a home in the neighborhood where she lived with her widowed mother and younger siblings.
She published several popular plan books that emphasized her status as a Southerner and a woman. Through these plan books, she influenced neighborhood design throughout the Southeast during the s. In John Mason and Poleman Weekes purchased property that was to become Decatur's first residential subdivision.
The district known today as the M. Wilburn was employed by Mason and Weekes to design many of the homes for the new subdivision. The MAK neighborhood retains many of the Wilburn-designed homes and offers excellent examples of craftsman style homes that were popular during the first three decades of the 20th century.
Decatur was named in honor of Stephen Decatur, a popular early-American naval hero.
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