Homes For Sale IN Cumming GA

Cumming is a wonderful place to live in. Homes for sale in Cumming GA are awesome.  Cumming, in the state of Georgia was founded in 1833 and first chartered in 1845. The town was first surveyed in 1833. It is located forty miles north of Atlanta. State Route 400 leads north from Atlanta all the way into into Forsyth County. The land for Cumming GA was part of the 1832 Cherokee land lottery. The Cherokee territory stretched across what is now Bartow, Cherokee, Cobb, Floyd, Forsyth, Gilmer, Lumpkin, Murray, Paulding, and Union counties. This land was allocated by a lottery system and was distributed to Georgia families. The land was mainly used for agriculture. The name comes from an officer from the War of 1812. His name was Col. William Cumming and he was born July 27, 1788. William Cumming was a distinguished Georgian who graduated from Princeton (at that time was the College of New Jersey at Princeton). He studied law at Gould’s Law School, Litchfield, Conn.