The land for Lee, Muscogee, Troup, Coweta and Carroll counties was ceded by the Creek people in the 1825 Treaty of Indian Springs.

[3] In the city of Newnan, on April 23, 1899, a notorious lynching occurred after an African-American man by the name of Sam Hose (born Tom Wilkes) was accused of killing his boss, Alfred Cranford.

Hose was tortured and burned alive by a lynch mob of approximately 2,000 citizens of Coweta County.

The western half is in the Middle Chattahoochee River-Lake Harding sub-basin of the same ACF River Basin.

[6] In the federal government's National Urban Policy and New Community Development Act of 1970, funding was provided for thirteen "new towns" or planned cities throughout the country.

This campus offers two undergraduate programs - Bachelor of Science in nursing and early childhood education.