The recipe for the perfect community is simple…combine equal parts vitality and old-fashioned charm with recreation, history and natural beauty. Add modern infrastructure and services with four-lane highway access and upscale shopping and you have—Dawson County and Historic Dawsonville.
Yes, there are still places where the past and the present can co-exist, where small town culture and values are served up with mountain hospitality. Less than an hour north of Atlanta, surrounded by the southern Appalachian mountains and flanked by 39,000 acre Lake Lanier, Dawson County and Historic Dawsonville is a community with many facets.
The modern Dawsonville begins at the junction of Georgia 400 and Highway 53, where the North Georgia Premium Outlets and adjacent retail shopping, dining, theater and entertainment beckon.
Just a few miles west on Highway 53, historic Dawsonville hearkens back to its founding in the mid 1800s, a time when the region was a quaint mountain farming community. Today a historic town square, courthouse, jail and other original period architecture stands as a reminder of a bygone era.
Somewhere between the old and new are experiences and opportunities as diverse as the visitors, residents and businesses that call this mountain valley home. Dawson County and Dawsonville is steeped in Appalachian culture and tradition, including a rich history of gold mining, moonshine running, backwoods racing and motorsports glory. High country trails and crystalline trout streams are within minutes of the downtown square, yet the community’s easy access to metro Atlanta and other business and population centers make it one of the fastest growing communities per capita in the nation.
It’s this crossroads—the charm of yesteryear and the energy of a thriving, contemporary community—that makes Dawson County and historic Dawsonville the perfect location for leisure, lifestyle or business. Whether you’re coming for a visit, an opportunity or a lifetime, call us at 706-265-6278 or just stop by the Chamber of Commerce, located in the historic red brick jail building just off the town square.
