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Sandy Springs, GA
Sandy Springs existed for decades as one of the largest unincorporated areas in the entire United States before residents, after a sustained multi-decade political effort, finally succeeded in incorporating it as its own independent city in 2005 — a move driven substantially by a desire for greater local control over zoning and services than unincorporated Fulton County governance had provided. That 2005 incorporation is widely cited in Georgia and among municipal-governance researchers nationally as the opening move in a broader wave of "cityhood" incorporations across north Fulton and DeKalb Counties over the following two decades, with several neighboring communities, including Dunwoody, following Sandy Springs's example within just a few years. City Springs, a civic and cultural complex combining a new city hall, a performing arts center, and mixed-use retail and residential development, opened in the late 2010s specifically to give the young city a genuine downtown center it had never had during its decades as an unincorporated area without its own defined civic core. Sandy Springs's combination of a genuinely consequential local incorporation movement and a deliberately built new downtown in City Springs has made it one of the more closely watched examples nationally of a large unincorporated suburban area successfully establishing its own independent municipal identity from scratch.
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Marietta, GA
Marietta's historic town square, Glover Park, has anchored the city's downtown since before the Civil War, and much of the surrounding commercial and residential architecture survived the broader destruction of the Atlanta campaign in 1864, giving Marietta one of the better-preserved concentrations of antebellum and Reconstruction-era buildings in the immediate Atlanta area. The Marietta National Cemetery, established in 1866, is the final resting place for more than 10,000 Union soldiers who died during the Atlanta campaign, and it sits alongside the nearby Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park, giving the city a genuine concentration of Civil War historical sites within its immediate vicinity. The "Big Chicken," a roughly 56-foot-tall chicken-shaped building constructed in 1963 to house a fried chicken restaurant, has become one of the most recognizable and affectionately regarded local landmarks in the entire Atlanta area, reportedly used for decades by NASA as a navigational reference point for astronauts flying into nearby Dobbins Air Reserve Base. Marietta's combination of a well-preserved historic town square, significant Civil War-era sites, and its genuinely beloved oversized-chicken roadside landmark has made it one of the more distinctive and historically layered suburbs anywhere in the greater Atlanta metropolitan area.
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