Tag: Lilburn
Lilburn is a city in Gwinnett County, Georgia, in the United States. The population was 11,596 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Atlanta metropolitan area.
Lilburn is located at 33°53′20″N 84°8′27″W / 33.88889°N 84.14083°W / 33.88889; -84.14083 (33.888853, -84.140897).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 6.2 square miles (16.1 km²), of which, 6.2 square miles (15.9 km²) of it is land and 0.1 square miles (0.1 km²) of it (0.81%) is water.
The city of Lilburn was founded in 1890 by the Seaboard Airline Railway. The area previously known as McDaniel was renamed Lilburn, after the general superintendent of the railroad, Lilburn Trigg Myers of Virginia. (The basis of the name change got no official mention at the time, and historical researchers did not confirm the specific link to Myers until the 1990s.) The town prospered and was incorporated as Lilburn on July 27, 1910.
A devastating fire and hard economic times in the 1920s ended the…
