44. HAPEVILLE 

(1,027 alt., 5,059 pop.), 6 miles south of Atlanta on US 19 and US 41, was incorporated in 1891 when the Central of Georgia Railway laid additional tracks in this vicinity and built a depot here. One hundred and fifty people were then living within the area of slightly more than two square miles about which the town limits were set, and a school and a Baptist church had been established during the previous decade. Since the citizens meant to keep Hapeville a home community, they incorporated into their charter an explicit prohibition of manufacturing enterprises.

As Atlanta business and industry spread southward, the town experienced a normal growth as the residential center for employees of these establishments, and many citizens went to work in the factories of near-by East Point. This growth was sharply accelerated in 1925, when plans were under discussion for the establishment of an Atlanta airport in this vicinity. By 1929, when the airport was built, more paved streets had been laid and many compact modern cottages erected among the more commodious, old-fashioned houses that made up the older Hapeville.

In the same year the restriction on industrial establishments was removed by special act of the legislature, and soon afterward a lumber mill and a textile plant were set up on the outskirts of the town. Since then other small manufactories have found a place here, but Hapeville has remained principally what its founders wished it to be—a city of substantial homes.

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