Sim Bennett collects cotton in this 1927 image that Bennett donated to the Gwinnett Historical Society. The society’s file for the photo does not list where the image was taken. (Photo: Gwinnett Historical Society)
These are photos that accompanied the Daily Post’s annual Progress edition, which this year celebrates Gwinnett County’s bicentennial.
This undated postcard shows a “street scene” in Norcross’ historic downtown district. While cars pass through the area now, this image shows people still using horse and wagons to get around. (Photo: Courtesy of the Gwinnett Historical Society)
The 1951-52 Lawrenceville High girls basketball team poses for a photo in the gym. (Special photo)
The old Grayson City Hall is shown in this 1988 photograph. The city’s government has since moved into a building on the edge of Grayson Community Park. (Photo: Courtesy of Gwinnett County)
Brothers and major leaguers Ivy, left, and Red Wingo played baseball for Norcross. (Special photo)
Buford’s 1945 football team poses for a photo. (Photo: Museum of Buford, from the Rip Davis Collection)
Gwinnett County high school students in the 1980s getting off the bus. (Photo: Courtesy of the Gwinnett County Government)
Buford’s baseball grandstands, shown in disrepair, housed the Bona Allen Shoemakers baseball team. (Photo: Museum of Buford/Lynn Bowman)
Head coach Jack Britt, far right, poses with the first Lawrenceville High School football team in 1952. (Special photo)
The old Button Gwinnett Hotel stood at the corner of Crogan and Perry Streets in downtown Lawrenceville. The building is now home to Dominick’s restaurant. (Photo: Courtesy of Gwinnett County)
This early 20th century postcard encourages people to visit Lawrenceville. It is part of a Gwinnett Historical Society collection of old postcards highlighting destinations around the county. (Photo: Courtesy of the Gwinnett Historical Society)
Crews work on the construction of Buford Dam in this 1954 photo. (Photo: Courtesy of Gwinnett County)
A group of people crowds around a car in this undated photo from the early 20th century. The photo is part of the Gwinnett Historical Society’s Kelley photo collection. (Photo: Courtesy of the Gwinnett Historical Society)
This model of the Elisha Winn House is on display in the Gwinnett Historical Society’s office in the county’s Historic Courthouse in Lawrenceville. The house was built around 1812 and is oldest known building in the county, as well as the place where Gwinnett’s government was formed and first convened. (File Photo)
The 1952-53 Lawrenceville High girls basketball team poses for a photo in the gym. (Special photo)
Crogan Street in Lawrenceville is shown in this 1912 postcard. The west-facing card shows the businesses which faced what is now known as the Gwinnett County Historic Courthouse. (Photo: Courtesy of the Gwinnett Historical Society)
The 1953-54 Lawrenceville High boys basketball team poses for a photo in the gym. (Special photo)
A group of Gwinnett residents poses for this undated photo in their car in the early 20th century. As the county entered its second century, the community was gradually making the transition from horse and buggies to automobiles. (Photo: Courtesy of the Gwinnett Historical Society)
An unidentified man stands with a horse and buggy in this undated photograph from the Gwinnett Historical Society’s files. (Photo: Gwinnett Historical Society)
Businesses in downtown Dacula are seen in this old, undated photograph. (Photo: Courtesy of the Gwinnett Historical Society)
This aerial photo shows what Snellville looked like in 1960. At the center of the photo is the intersection of U.S. Highway 78 and Scenic Highway. (Photo: Courtesy of Gwinnett County)
The 1950-51 Lawrenceville High baseball team poses for a photo. (Special photo)
The 1952-53 Lawrenceville High boys basketball team poses for a photo in the gym. (Special photo)
Duluth grad George Rogers poses for a photo after winning the 1980 Heisman Trophy as a South Carolina running back. (Photo: University of South Carolina)
The 1951-52 Lawrenceville High cheerleaders pose for a photo on the basketball court. (Special photo)
The old Suwanee Train Depot on Main Street is shown in this undated photograph. While the rail line still runs in about the same place, the depot no longer stands. (Photo: Courtesy of Gwinnett County)
In 1953, the Gwinnett County Police Department — which wasn’t formally structured until that year — began a traffic safety campaign, erecting speed limit signs on roads throughout the county. (Photo: Gwinnett County Historical Society)
The Gwinnett County Historic Courthouse is surrounded in snow in February 1908. This photo was taken months before the now familiar clock tower was added to the then 23-year old courthouse. (Photo: Courtesy of the Gwinnett Historical Society)
Volunteers of Lawrenceville’s fire department in the early 1900s. (Gwinnett Historical Society)
A group of people, believed to possibly be members of the Winn family, poses for a photo in this image from the 1890’s. The photo is part of a collection of images held by the Gwinnett Historical Society as part of its Ada Winn collection. (Photo: Courtesy of the Gwinnett Historical Society)
The 1946 Buford football team poses for a photo. (Photo: Museum of Buford, from the Rip Davis Collection)
Students getting lunch at a cafeteria in the 1980s. (Photo: Courtesy of Gwinnett County Government)
Buford’s Bona Allen Shoemakers pose for a photo during the 1933 season. (Photo: Museum of Buford/Lynn Bowman)
A Norcross Elementary School class in 1923. (Photo: Courtesy of the Gwinnett Historical Society)
Dr. A. D. Williams gives shots for the prevention of typhoid fever to the Snellville ciizens in the mid-1930s. As in previous and later public vaccinations, there was much public demonstration to encourage vaccine participation and remove fears. (Photo: Gwinnett County Historical Society)
This copy of an 1847 map shows Gwinnett County, as well as its neighboring counties. The copy is held by the Gwinnett Historical Society at its office in Lawrenceville. (File Photo)
A mobile van from the Joan Glancy Memorial Hospital served the healthcare needs of the county. In this photo, nurses have taken the van to a black school to vaccinate the children. (Photo: Gwinnett County)
A young Charlotte Nash chats with 4H officials in this undated photo. The image is one of several that Gwinnett County government officials have collected to show the county’s history during its bicentennial year. (Photo: Courtesy of Gwinnett County)
A photo of the Gwinnett Police Department, exact year unknown. The department started with only three officers and wasn’t officially structured until 1953. (Photo: Gwinnett County)
The Buford 1946-47 girls basketball team poses for a photo. (Photo: Museum of Buford, from the Rip Davis Collection)
The old Hotel Pharr at the corner of Perry and Crogan Streets in Lawrenceville is shown in this old, undated postcard. The hotel was partially destroyed by fire, but was remodeled into a two-story building that was later home to the Button Gwinnett Hotel. It now houses Dominick’s restaurant. (Photo: Courtesy of the Gwinnett Historical Society)
Cars are parked in front of the Gwinnett County Historic Courthouse which had its clock tower, and a coat of white paint, by the time this 1951 photo was taken. Although officials stopped using the facility as a courthouse after the Gwinnett Justice And Administration Center opened in 1988, it continues to be used for social and community events. (Photo: Courtesy of the Gwinnett Historical Society)
Gwinnett residents wait to be seen by a doctor, circa 1953. (Photo: Gwinnett County Historical Society)
The Gwinnett County Historic Courthouse looks slightly different these days. Gone are the white exterior walls, with the red color of the bricks visible to visitors now. (Staff Photo: Curt Yeomans)
Lawrenceville native Ezzard Charles is shown on a return trip to his birth county after winning the world heavyweight boxing championship. (Special photo)
Students in Gwinnett County riding a Model T school bus, circa 1925. (Photo: Courtesy of Gwinnett County Government)
The 1938 Grayson basketball team poses for a photo outside its old gym. (Special photo)
Students outside of Pharr Academy in Snellville. (Photo: Courtesy of the Gwinnett Historical Society)
The old jail facing Perry Street at Luckie Street in Lawrenceville in 1953. The sheriff and family once lived in three rooms downstairs, using them for kitchen, living and dining rooms. Upstairs, they had one bedroom with two women’s cells behind the room. Male prisoners were on the first floor and the basement had a broiler room for contraband, such as liquor and slot machines. Sheriff Crawford Pittard, who served from 1953 to 1960, was the last to live here. The jail was demolished in 1978. (Photo: Gwinnett County Historical Society)
Standing from left to right, Policeman Tom Davis, City Attorney Dan. Byrd, City Councilmen Lenton Ewing and John Webb, Mayor Livrick Martin, City Councilmen J.H. McGee and John Britt and Policeman Bob Wages. Wages is wearing his police badge in the photo. (Photo: Gwinnett County Historical Society)
Twin water towers on Interstate 85, proclaiming ‘Gwinnett Is Great’ and ‘Success Lives Here’ provided an unofficial welcome to drivers as they entered the county. The county eventually dismantled the towers a few years ago. (Photo: Courtesy of Gwinnett County)
The Joan Glancy Memorial Clinic opened in 1941. The Joan Gancy Memorial Hospital, Gwinnett’s first hospital, opened in 1944. (Photo: Gwinnett County Historical Society)
The Gwinnett County Historic Courthouse is shown in this undated photo as it appeared when it was built in 1885. The familiar clock tower was not added until 1908. (Photo: Courtesy of the Gwinnett Historical Society)
The 1908 Buford city baseball team poses for a photo. (Photo: Courtesy of Walter Mitchell)
A nurse measures a little boy, who is receiving a medical exam circa 1953. (Photo: Gwinnett County Historical Society)
The Mall of Georgia is shown under construction in the Buford area in this 1999 photo. (Photo: Courtesy of Gwinnett County)
The 1953 Lawrenceville High School boys basketball team poses for a photo in the school’s old gym. (Special photo)
This postcard shows an early incarnation of the old Lawrenceville High School that once stood on a hill on Perry Street overlooking the Lawrenceville Square. (Photo: Courtesy of the Gwinnett Historical Society)
Dr. Jack Cain (left,) his nurse, and volunteers at the Joan Glancy Clinic are pictured with the vehicle that allowed them to bring medical care to rural areas, circa 1941. (Photo: Gwinnett County)
Gwinnett County Fire and Emergency Services headquarters are located in Lawrenceville. (Special Photo)
Construction crews work on the Pleasant Hill Road bridge over Interstate 85 in this 1983 photo. (Photo: Courtesy of Gwinnett County)
It wasn’t until 1953 that a formal structure of the county’s police department was attempted. At the March 2 county commission meeting, minute detail that each officer was to be paid $225 per month and the county “to furnish one car.” This is the car. (Photo: Gwinnett County)
The Gwinnett Civic Center, now known as the Infinite Energy Center, is seen in its early form in this 1999 photo. This image was taken before the county expanded the then-7-year old convention center space to add new ballrooms, and before the arena was added to the site. (Photo: Courtesy of Gwinnett County)
The 1952-53 Lawrenceville High girls basketball team poses for a photo in the gym. (Special photo)
The Joan Glancy Memorial Clinic pictured from the side. (Photo: Gwinnett County Historical Society)
The Sugarloaf Parkway and Interstate 85 interchange is shown in this undated photograph facing the future site of Sugarloaf Mills. (Photo: Courtesy of Gwinnett County
A group of Hooper-Renwick School students in the school’s library. (Photo: Courtesy of the Gwinnett Historical Society)
J.W., Lula, and Willie Benefield stand together in the Dacula grocery store in this photo from about 1938. (Photo: Gwinnett Historical Society)
Sugarloaf Parkway’s old terminus at Georgia Highway 20 is shown in this undated photograph. The county eventually extended Sugarloaf beyond Highway 20, to Georgia Highway 316. Gwinnett officials are now planning another extension that will take Sugarloaf up to Interstate 85 in the Buford area. (Photo: Courtesy of Gwinnett County)
Gwinnett police officers ride their motorcycles on a county street in 2003. (Photo: Gwinnett County Police Department)
Former Greater Atlanta Christian basketball star Cindy Brogdon poses for a portrait in her Suwanee home in 2008. (File photo)
This historic marker outside the Gwinnett County Historic Courthouse details some basic details about the county’s founding. (File Photo)
This undated postcard shows the old Dutch Mill Motel and restaurant on Buford Highway in Duluth. The whimsical-looking restaurant was destroyed in a fire in the 1990s. (Photo: Courtesy of the Gwinnett Historical Society)
Students from the Lawrenceville Female Seminary in the late 1800s. (Photo: Courtesy of the Gwinnett Historical Society)
Lawrenceville High basketball captains pose with their coaches during the early 1950s. (Special photo)
Downtown Duluth, including the old Parsons Store, is seen in this undated photo of the intersection of Main and West Lawrenceville Streets. The section of downtown shown in this photo is now home to Parsons Alley. (Photo: Courtesy of Gwinnett County)
A class of Gwinnett County students show off their patriotic pride with American flags, circa 1980s. (Photo: Courtesy of Gwinnett County Government)
Crogan Street in Lawrenceville is shown in this old, undated postcard. The east-facing card shows the multi-story Hotel Pharr on the right. The hotel was partially destroyed by fire, but was remodeled into a two-story building that was later home to the Button Gwinnett Hotel. It now houses Dominick’s restaurant. (Photo: Courtesy of the Gwinnett Historical Society)
