![]() ![]() ![]() In the 1950s a group of real estate developers, Bessemer Securities, amassed land in Fayette County to build a planned community. The area remained mostly rural until the mid-twentieth century. One of the last skirmishes of the Civil War (1861-65) was fought near present-day Peachtree City. Settlers who had fought with the Marquis de Lafayette in the American Revolution (1775-83) named the county after him. In 1821 Fayette County was formed from land bought from the Creeks. Peachtree City sits on land that was first settled by Native Americans about 2,000 years ago.
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