The area was also home to a post office, saloon, blacksmith shop, carpenter shop and inn however, the prosperity of Pinckneyville was to be short-lived. By 1827, the community was home to the second school in Gwinnett County, the Washington Academy, founded on what is now Spalding Drive. A small farming community, known as "Pinckneyville," grew up along that road. In the early 1800s a road was built along a Native American trail from what is now Buford, past what is now Peachtree Corners, to what is now Atlanta. Nevertheless, there were several families of white squatters in the area before settlement was legalized, including Isham Medlock, whose name is lent to Medlock Bridge Road. Prior to 1818, the western corner of what became Gwinnett County was Creek and Cherokee Indian Territory, and it was illegal for white families to settle there. The now-defunct Jones Bridge (1904) once connected Pinckneyville to Alpharetta.
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