42. COLLEGE PARK 

(1,060 alt., 8,213 pop.), in Fulton County, eight miles southwest of Atlanta on US 29, is a suburb from which many residents set forth each morning to work in Atlanta and the factories of near-by East Point. College Park itself has no industries, maintaining a pleasing residential character in its neatly kept, unpretentious houses and in the plantings of grass and shrubbery along the tracks of the Atlanta & West Point Railroad, which parallel the highway.

The town, incorporated in 1891 as Manchester, received its present name four years later when Cox College (formerly Southern Female College) was moved here from LaGrange, Georgia. At that time the academic note was further carried out by giving the avenues such names as Oxford, Rugby, Harvard, and Princeton. In 1900 the Georgia Military Academy was established here.

College Park continued to be the home of the two institutions until 1938, when Cox College ceased to function and its building was razed. On the Cox College site a civic center and park have been planned, and an auditorium and a high school are under construction. Now the only college town atmosphere is given by the students of Georgia Military Academy.

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