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Lovejoy is a city in Clayton County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 6,422, up from 2,495 in 2000. During the American Civil War, it was the site of the Battle of Lovejoy’s Station during the Atlanta Campaign of 1864.

Lovejoy is proposed by the Georgia Department of Transportation and MARTA to be the endpoint of metro Atlanta’s first commuter rail line.

Lovejoy city overview:
Name:	Lovejoy city
LSAD Code:	25
LSAD Description:	city (suffix)
State:	Georgia
County:	Clayton County
Elevation:	951 ft (290 m)
Total Area:	2.94 sq mi (7.61 km²)
Land Area:	2.91 sq mi (7.54 km²)
Water Area:	0.03 sq mi (0.07 km²)
Total Population:	10,122
Population Density:	3,477.16/sq mi (1,342.38/km²)
ZIP code:	30250
Area code:	770
FIPS code:	1347616
GNISfeature ID:	0317440
Website:	www.cityoflovejoy.com

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History

Around 1850, the location just north of Fosterville, GA, was positioned along the new railway from Atlanta to Macon. The trainstop there was named for a prosperous local planter, James Lankford Lovejoy. On early maps, the location is called “Lovejoys.” It became known as Lovejoy’s Station by 1864, where it was the setting of a civil war battle during Sherman’s campaign through Georgia. James Lovejoy left the region and died in Clinch County, Georgia in 1877.

The Georgia General Assembly incorporated Lovejoy as a town in 1891.

In 1979, Betty Talmadge, former first-lady of Georgia, purchased the remnants of the Hollywood set “Tara,” the fictional plantation featured in Gone With the Wind, and brought them to Lovejoy. The main road through Lovejoy today is named “Tara Blvd.” The remnants of Tara are available to be toured at the Lovejoy Plantation through www.savingtara.com.

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Geography

Lovejoy is located in southern Clayton County at 33°26′39″N 84°18′54″W / 33.44417°N 84.31500°W / 33.44417; -84.31500 (33.444164, -84.315105). It is bordered by Henry County to the south and the unincorporated community of Bonanza to the north. U.S. Routes 19 and 41 pass through the western part of Lovejoy, leading north 24 miles (39 km) to downtown Atlanta and south 14 miles (23 km) to Griffin.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.6 square miles (6.8 km), of which 0.02 square miles (0.06 km), or 0.91%, is water.