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DeKalb County was created from Henry,
Gwinnett and Fayette Counties in 1822. It was
named for Baron Johann de Kalb, a German soldier who
fought on the side of the Americans in the American
Revolutionary War. In 1853, Fulton County was
formed from part of DeKalb; which until that time,
the growing city of Atlanta had been inside DeKalb
County. Up until the 1960s, DeKalb was mainly
an agricultural county, but as Atlanta and its
suburbs grew, DeKalb became more urban. |
