* The ABC television series October Road was filmed in Newnan, though it is actually set in the fictional town of Knights Ridge, Massachusetts.

Newnan is a shopping hub and has experienced rapid commercial development.

Mercer University has a Regional Academic Center in Newnan.

The University of West Georgia has a campus located in Newnan, near I-85.

The University of West Georgia also has a campus in Newnan off of 34

Jackson was born to Joseph Eugene Jackson and Ruth Musick in Newnan, Georgia, and has four older siblings.

He also has released a cookbook entitled The Redneck Grill, co-authored with Newnan, Georgia artist R. David Boyd, and " Redneck Extreme Mobile Home Makeover " ( 2005 ), a book with some of his redneck jokes.

Mercer also has regional academic centers in Henry County, Douglas County, Eastman, and Newnan ; teaching hospitals in Macon, Savannah, and Columbus ; a university press and a performing arts center, the Grand Opera House, in Macon ; and the Mercer Engineering Research Center in Warner Robins.

During the General Textile Workers Strike in 1934, this fort was used as a detention center to hold picketers who had been arrested while striking at a cotton mill in Newnan, Georgia.

* In the 1978 feature film The Sheriff and the Satellite Kid ( original Italian title: Uno Sceriffo extraterrestre-poco extra e molto terrestre ) featuring Bud Spencer his character is depicted as being the Sheriff of Newnan and the plot to take place in said city.

After starting 1916 with Newnan, by the end of the year he had moved up to the class-B Shreveport Gassers of the Texas League.

Born in Newnan, Georgia, he grew up in Alabama, Georgia and Texas, moving from place to place as his family searched for work.

There was a production in Irving, Texas in 2004 and another in Newnan, Georgia, near Atlanta, by Landmark Christian School in 2005.

Newnan was established as county seat of Coweta County ( replacing the defunct town of Bullsboro ) in 1828 and was named for North Carolinian General Daniel Newnan.

Newnan Road connected the town of that name to Decatur and Lawrenceville.

Newnan was largely untouched by the American Civil War due to its status as a hospital city ( for Confederate troops ), and as a result still features much antebellum architecture.

Newnan was host to the trial in 1948 of wealthy landowner John Wallace, the first white man in the south to be condemned to death by the testimony of African Americans, two field hands who were made to help with burning the body of murdered white sharecropper Wilson Turner.

It is in the city limits of Newnan and was recently cleaned up again in August and September 2011.

* The NBC series I'll Fly Away was filmed in Newnan from 1991 – 1993

* The 1995 movie Fluke was filmed in Newnan.

The court square in Newnan, GA was transformed into a battlezone on Sunday, March 29, 2008.

* The Fat Boy Chronicles, a movie about overcoming obesity, was filmed in Newnan High School in summer of 2010.

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.

Ellis Gibbs Arnall ( March 20, 1907, Newnan, GeorgiaDecember 13, 1992 ) was an American politician, a liberal Democrat who served as the 69th Governor of the U. S. state of Georgia from 1943 to 1947.

Warner was born and raised in Newnan, Georgia.

Another from its famed fleet was the Man o ' War, a Columbus, Georgia-Atlanta route, via Pine Mountain, Raymond and Newnan, Georgia.

Hidden in Plain View was released in November 2003, featuring the liner notes picturing his replacement, Newnan, Georgia resident Spencer Peterson, born in Oil City, Pennsylvania.

Hanson was named head football coach at Trinity Christian School in Sharpsburg, Ga. in 2011 after spending one year as an assistant under his former high school coach, Danny Cronic, at The Heritage School in Newnan, Ga.

The county seat is Newnan.

East Newnan is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Coweta County, Georgia, United States.

East Newnan is located at ( 33. 349436 ,-84. 777434 ).

Newnan is a city in Coweta County, Georgia, about 30 miles southwest of Atlanta.

Newnan is one of the fastest growing cities in Georgia, with an estimated population of 27, 097 in 2006 and 33, 293 in July 2008.

According to the 2010 census, 33, 039 people live in Newnan, the county seat of Coweta County, and it grew 103. 4 % since 2000.

Newnan quickly became a prosperous magnet for lawyers, doctors, other professionals and merchants.

Newnan is also home to The Heritage School, a small private school.

Newnan is served by the Coweta County School System.

Newnan is located at ( 33. 376411 ,-84. 788648 ).

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* Many scenes from the Lifetime Channel series Drop Dead Diva are being filmed in Newnan

The short stories " Melville on Iapetus " ( 1983 ), " Promises to Keep " ( 1984 ), " Oculus " ( 2002 ), " The Big Downtown " ( 2005 ), " Kaminsky at War " ( 2006 ), and " Maiden Voyage " ( 2012 ) are also set in the Academy universe.

Many booths, rides and activities are set up all along the side of Downtown Kingsburg's Draper Street.

" Downtown New Brighton " is distinguishable from other areas of the town because of the old-fashioned street lights set approximately twenty feet ( 6 m ) apart down the entire road.

mid-1980s set about a building boom for Downtown Midland.

The set includes a full-scale re-creation of the Alamo compound as it would have appeared in 1836 ( the real Alamo is in the middle of what is now Downtown San Antonio and is surrounded by modern skyscrapers ).

* Downtown Special: Kunio-kun no Jidaigeki dayo Zen ' in Shūgō — sequel to Downtown Nekketsu Monogatari ( River City Ransom in America ) set in feudal Japan.

Montreal's Underground City ( officially RÉSO or La Ville Souterraine in French ) is the set of interconnected complexes ( both above and below ground ) in and around Downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

As Phoenix became the center of commerce in the territory, the capital was moved to Phoenix, with temporary offices being set up in Downtown.

Ramada opened its first hotel – a 60-room facility – on U. S. Route 66 at Flagstaff, Arizona in 1954 and set up its headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona, where the chain built the Sahara Hotel on North 1st Street downtown in 1956 ( which later became the Ramada Inn Downtown ) and a 300-room Ramada Inn in the 3800 block of East Van Buren in 1958 that would become the chain's flagship property and headquarters.

After landing a deal with Downtown Records before even recording a note of music, Diplo & Switch set out for Jamaica to record a project that, like most of Diplo ’ s projects before it, would highlight the little-known subgenres, this time of Jamaica ’ s dancehall scene.

Downtown Toontown in DisneylandRoger Rabbit was recognized as a lucrative character by Disney after the release of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and an ambitious set of attractions based on the movie was developed for Disney theme parks.

When this project becomes reality, it will act as an extension of the Blue Line by allowing Blue Line trains to pass through Downtown towards Pasadena, and through to the City of Azusa under a current Gold Line Foothill Extension plan set to open in 2015.

Rotana set up a large launch party in Downtown Beirut, where over fifteen thousand of Karam's fans packed the streets, waiting for Najwa to appear and sing her new material.

While licensed to Raleigh, its studios were initially on Broad Street in Downtown Durham ( the same building where WTVD set up shop in 1954 ) with its master control facility located with the transmission and tower facility near Apex.