What is the history of Norcross, Georgia?
Norcross was founded in 1866 by John Thrasher. Thrasher named the town after his good friend Jonathan Norcross, the fourth mayor of Atlanta. Thrasher himself had been an early settler of Whitehall, but left in 1842. The site of Whitehall is now in downtown Atlanta, just southwest of the city center. The original settlers in the Norcross area lived in ourpeachtreecorners:Pinkneyvil lePinckneyville, two miles north of Norcross, at the crossroads of Peachtree and Medlock Bridge. They later abandoned their settlement and joined Thrasher in Norcross when the railroad was built in 1870. As the first train stop going northeast out of Atlanta towards Washington, D.C., it became a resort town for the Atlanta elite. Made more attractive by its slightly cooler temperatures due to the higher elevation, vacation homes were built in what is now ourpeachtreecorners:Historic Old Town NorcrossHistoric Norcross. In recent years, Norcross has become a powerhouse in basketball as Norcross High School, in
