Lawrenceville Is As Cute As A Button

Welp folks, I gathered a bunch of knowledge to share about my “hometown” (I use this term very, very, VERY loosely). Out of the fifteen years I have lived in Georgia, nine of those years have been in Lawrenceville so that’s the city I will be talking about. But to understand Lawrenceville, you first need to have some Gwinnett knowledge. Gwinnett county is named after none other than Button Gwinnett himself, one of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence. Though not well known, he shares a very similar life story to Hamilton. So much so, the creator of the musical Hamilton! was going to make it Button! but ultimately decided against it since Button wasn’t and still isn’t as well known as say Hamiliton (the creator and Colbert made a joke about it in a skit once).

Nonetheless, Gwinnecians love him-- so much that we placed him atop the Mall of Georgia (the largest mall in Georgia and for a time in the south) where he stands tall in the best county in Georgia.

You can see him at the tippy top, he looks small but he is actually 9 feet tall!

Anyway, during the height of mass migration to the south, Gwinnett was the quickest growing county in all of America for several years. As of 2019, the county has a population of 936,000, making it the second most populous county in Georgia. And the “national” food chain of Gwinnett would perhaps be Waffle House, which is headquartered in a city in Gwinnett.

I love this place, it always deliver whether it is breakfast, lunch, or dinner

As for the land of Gwinnett itself, it use to be owned by the Creek Native Americans. But obviously because of infrastructural issues that Native Americans have in general with “Americans”, they ceded their land and created most of what Gwinnett is today. Some of the infamous Lake Lanier is within Gwinnett, which is involved in the tri-state water dispute between Georgia, Florida, and Alabama (this dispute exists due to the lack of bodies of water in the south, specifically these states). Georgia was kind of being a jerk when they artificially created Lake Lanier since it pools most of the water that flows from the sole river that the tri-states share.

Yet another reason why Alabama and Florida are so annoying to Georgia

The last thing I want to talk about is the education of Gwinnett county. Gwinnett is one of the few counties in Georgia that invests a lot of its tax money into education (maybe it’s because it’s the only blue county in Georgia). It is the largest school system in Georgia and the fourteenth largest school system in America. In addition, Gwinnett is the only county that has received the Broad Prize twice (which is an urban education award given to public school systems that shows the greatest overall performance and improvement in student achievement gaps among low-income students and students of color).Though Gwinnett tries its best to support its children, the college readiness and graduation rates still aren’t stellar. For example, the highest college ready high school I attended was only 49.5 out of 100 points T-T.

Did your public school system have its own logo???

So now that you guys have knowledge about Gwinnett, let’s start talking about the county seat of Gwinnett: Lawrenceville! Out of all the cities I lived in Gwinnett, this is my favorite Gwinnett city. It is perfectly located in Gwinnett where every city within the county is equidistant from it and because it is the second oldest city in the Atlanta metropolitan area, I feel it has more character here than in other Gwinnett cities.

Seeee???

Additionally, it has the only airport within the county called the Briscoe Field airport which, fun fact, is where the 9-11 bombers trained to become certified airplane pilots.

Also, Lawrenceville is the headquarters for the Presbyterian Church in America (another reason for you to come Rachel). But aside from its many amenities, the diversity in Lawrenceville is amazing. It is the third most diverse area in Georgia (and apparently the 28th most diverse suburb nationally out of a possible 6,200 suburbs, so basically only 0.4% other suburbs in America are more diverse than Lawrenceville, which is pretty nice not gonna lie (maybe that’s why going to Smith was such a shock)). Broken down, it essentially goes: 37% white, 32% black, 22% latinx, 5% Asian, and 2.9 biracial. And of all the people living in Lawrenceville, 22% are foreign born! But with diversity, unfortunately comes disparities. 22% of people in Lawrenceville live under the poverty line (the national average is 13% for context), and this statistics doesn’t even include those who live exactly or barely above the poverty line ://. On a lighter note though, the wage gap between men and women in Lawrenceville is below the national average and there are more men than women in Lawrenceville (for every 105 men, there are 100 women, which is again below the national average where there are usually more women than men).

As you guys can see, I did A LOT of research on my beloved county and city. I am really being such a stereotypical Gwinnecian here T-T (the common myth about people in Gwinnett is that we are culty-- you will never find us outside or at least that far away from Gwinnett, we only interact with people who are also from Gwinnett, and that we believe we live in the best county). So the next time someone says “What the heck is Gwinnett” or “Who the heck knows anything about Lawrenceville” as it is commonly brought up, you all can now contribute something to the convo ;P

The new logo of Gwinnett (not many of us like the new logo cause it creates an eyesore on everything because it is so obnoxiously loud) but it represents are motto which is "vibrantly connected"

Also, I couldn’t fit these fun facts anywhere but apparently Gwinnett’s “sister city” is Gangnam-gu district in Seoul, South Korea and of course that the Migos came from Lawerenceville.

Only cool kids come from Lawrenceville

Alrighty guys, I hope you guys are all doing well and I will leave you all with some of my pics/adventures from this week:

She made her first meal all by her little ole self at 4 years old :')

They liked the brekkie

They are little monkeys (no racism intended and no racist jokes either @-@)

Heheh. this pictures makes me smile-- they look like a k-pop girl group or something (ignore the baby behind them)

Found a little baby rabbit and he let us get really close to him :0

Okieeee, bye byeee!