Lawrenceville - Georgia - 4K Downtown Drive
Vložit
- čas přidán 9. 07. 2024
- Sunday afternoon drive around Lawrenceville, GA.
Filmed: December 2020
Cities Explored: www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mi...
Follow on Instagram: / mileagemike
Make a one time donation to support the channel:
cash.me/$milmike
Equipment Used:
SD Card: amzn.to/38ikIb6
Tripod: amzn.to/3vH1xQh
Camera: amzn.to/3Kdfx9E
Camera Mount: amzn.to/3vSX2m0
Computer: amzn.to/3EVZNaj
Backpack: amzn.to/3ukNrUQ
External HD: amzn.to/3vI8zUW
Glass Cleaner: amzn.to/3EWIQg1
Tablet: amzn.to/3vrLffx
Tablet Accessories: amzn.to/3FcmRBT
Smartphone Gimbal: amzn.to/3wPx2d0
Covert Camera: amzn.to/3xvRr7h
Headphones: amzn.to/3MBcJEF
DISCLAIMER: This video and description contains affiliate links, which means that if you click on one of the product links I’ll receive a small commission. This helps support the channel and allows me to bring you more videos in more places. Thank you for the support!
From Wikipedia:
Lawrenceville is a city and the county seat of Gwinnett County, Georgia, United States. It is a suburb of Atlanta, located approximately 30 miles (50 km) northeast of downtown. As of the 2010 census, the population of Lawrenceville was 28,546.[6] In 2019, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated the city population to be 30,834. Lawrenceville has six ZIP codes (30042-30046, 30049), and it is part of the 678/770/404 telephone area code, which is used throughout metropolitan Atlanta.
Lawrenceville was incorporated by an act of the Georgia General Assembly on December 15, 1821. This makes Lawrenceville the second oldest city in the metropolitan Atlanta area. The city is named after Commodore James Lawrence, commander of the frigate Chesapeake during the War of 1812. Lawrence, a native of New Jersey, is probably best known today for his dying command, "Don't give up the ship!"[8] William Maltbie, the town's first postmaster, suggested the name of "Lawrenceville."
In 1821, a permanent site for the county courthouse was selected and purchased, the four streets bordering the square were laid out along with other streets in the village, and a public well was dug. Major Grace built the first permanent courthouse, a brick structure, in 1823-24 for a cost of $4,000. The courthouse presently on the square was constructed in 1885.
Courtland Winn served two terms as mayor starting in 1884 when he was 21 years old.
The two most famous people born in Lawrenceville gained their fame elsewhere. Charles Henry Smith, born in 1826, left as a young man and lived most of his life in other Georgia towns. During the Civil War he wrote humorous pieces for Atlanta newspapers under the name Bill Arp. He has been described as the South's most popular writer of the late 19th century, though he is not much read today. Ezzard Charles, born in 1921, grew up in Cincinnati, where opportunities for African-Americans were far better at the time than in the Deep South. He eventually became the World Heavyweight boxing champion by defeating Joe Louis by unanimous decision on September 27, 1950.
Another resident, Oliver Hardy, became a world-renowned comic actor, a member of the film duo Laurel and Hardy from the 1920s to the 1940s. He lived as a child in downtown Lawrenceville around 1900. But his stay was brief since his family moved often within Georgia.
Larry Flynt and lawyer Gene Reeves, Jr., were shot from near this archway while walking to lunch.
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. Years later, imprisoned serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin claimed to have been the shooter, but he never produced any proof and was not charged in the case. (Franklin was executed in 2013 in Missouri for a 1977 sniper slaying.) A heavily fictionalized treatment of the Flynt shooting can be seen in the 1996 movie The People vs. Larry Flynt.
Since 1988, Lawrenceville has been the headquarters of the Presbyterian Church in America.
Explore more Georgia cities and towns here: czcams.com/play/PLnS3Ajs4YX_zVfOJ7KYikzDJcBrsHIsMy.html
Follow on Instagram: instagram.com/mileagemike
Thank you for sharing. My home town where I grew up in the 60's and 70's
Glad you enjoyed it
Wow my entire life living in Lawrenceville and most of things in this video I haven’t even seen, thanks man
No problem 👌
Great video and Great Driving
Thank you! 👍
@ 11:05 Wasn't there a court house on the right hand corner? Did they tear it down.
3:43 oof :P
🤝👍👍👍👍👍
i grew up here :) miss this place
It’s a nice looking place. Nice and quiet.
Gwinnett County is ruined. It used to be a nice place to live, but not anymore. Too much crime.
@@bonniebrown6960 lies
Nice Altanta Town video I like it :)
It's sort of the metro Atlanta area. East of Atlanta.
@@bonniebrown6960 northeast
New Subscriber, great 👍 video thanks for sharing
Thanks for the sub!
Mike, any plans to do something around Celanese rd or Cherry rd SC in the future?
Probably not in the near future. I might go back and do a better quality video of the current Rock Hill video at some point.
@@MileageMikeTravels Noted, keep it up
funny i watched these videos less than a year ago when we were moving to GA and now i have driven through most of those Streets
You need to move up North.
@@bonniebrown6960 we are in Winder Dacula border now but we think in less than 4 years we are going to need to move further out because its going to be so populated too.
at 15:17 there used to be a Subway there where I used to work lol. I heard there was a crack house behind that building. Used to be scary taking the trash out at night
There are drugs up that street
I bet there's drugs everywhere in Lawrenceville now that that the foreigners have took over Georgia. 😡 They all need to go back where they came from. 😡
Hey you think you can do one around douglasville ga please.
Yes that’s on my list to get to at some point.
@@MileageMikeTravels can't wait lol
I hate that the biggest reason people outside Georgia know about the place (or at least one of the biggest reasons) is that it’s where Larry Flynt was shot in 1978.
Like, go read something by Bill Arp!
My dad was murdered in Gwinnett County. Then the person who killed him....killed two women 3 years after that. I don't know who Larry Flynt was though. This state is ruined.
Beautiful = Bonito
Conozco esos lugares
I hope you don't live here.