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Welcome to the East Point Home page. The East Point Home page provides as much information as possible on East Point. Knowing East Point’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within East Point’s Home page, you will also find East Point’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

East Point has a population of 35031. 45.6% of East Point’s inhabitants are Male, and 54.4 are female. 24.7% of East Point is married and 42.8% own their own home. The Average Home price is $149,110, and the average rent is $1,069. Household median income in East Point is $45,411, and the individual median income is $29,312. East Point’s Ethnic is the following: Black(76.5%), White(18.5%), Hispanic(7.1%), Multiple(2.2%), Other(1.6%), Asian(1.1%), Native(0.1%).


The name "East Point" derives from the fact that this is the terminus of the Atlanta & West Point Railroad in the east; West Point, Georgia, is the terminus where the rail line ends in the west. This settlement was founded as a railroad terminus with 16 families in 1870, but grew quickly after it became an inviting place for industry to develop.


Soon it boasted the railway, two gristmills, and a government distillery located on Connally Drive. One of the earliest buildings was the factory of the White Hickory Manufacturing Company, built by B.M. Blount and L.M. Hill (who became the first chairman of the board of aldermen of the city).By 1880 the town had two churches, a common school, a steam-cotton gin, a sawmill, a post office (founded in 1851), a telegraph office and its own newspaper weekly, The Plow Boy.


East Point ranked as a grain and cotton-growing center. With its pleasant upland climate and proximity to the railway, it was a popular summer resort for people from the city of Atlanta.In 1884 the first telephone rang in East Point, and in 1887 the city received its first charter. In 1890 a major portion of property along East Point Avenue was subdivided and developed, opening the way for more homes, more churches, more people, and more places of employment.


By 1892 Main Street was completed, despite protests from a few progress-shy early settlers who maintained that one major thoroughfare, Newnan Road, was more than sufficient.By the start of the 20th century, the adolescent town was poised to grow into the city it eventually would become.In late 2015 and early 2016, some scenes for the Netflix series Stranger Things were filmed at the exterior of the First Baptist Church (standing in for a hospital exterior in a fictional Indiana town).


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