Lawrenceville, Georgia

Lawrenceville was incorporated by an act of the Georgia General Assembly on 15 December 1821. This makes Lawrenceville the second oldest city in the Metro Atlanta Area. This small town is known as the ‘Crepe Myrtle City’ and is the county seat of Gwinnett County. Lawrenceville was one of many venues in the nation where Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt faced obscenity charges in the late 1970s. On March 6, 1978, during a lunch break in his Lawrenceville trial, he and his local attorney Gene Reeves were shot by a sniper near the courthouse. Both survived, though Flynt was seriously disabled. Georgia Gwinnett College, also referred to as GGC or simply Georgia Gwinnett, is a fully accredited four-year public college located in Lawrenceville, with an enrollment of around 6000 undergraduate students. The Aurora Theatre, located on the downtown Historic Courthouse Square, produces live professional performances—from musicals to Shakespearean plays to children’s theatre. The Gwinnett Braves Minor League Baseball Team plays at Coolray Field. You can find Lawrenceville on Route 20, 5 miles east of I-85 and 22 miles northeast of Atlanta.