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Suwanee began as an Indian village along the banks of Suwanee Creek
and the Chattahoochee River. The community was named for a Shawnee
Indian tribe that settled here in the latter part of the 18th
century, though the village probably was inhabited long before this
particular group of Native Americans arrived.
The City's name is thought to derive from the English
mispronunciation of Shawnee, a tribe of Algonquin Indians, who first
settled along the banks of the Chattahoochee River. Shawnee is an
Algonquin word for "Southerner" and was used because the Shawnee
lived the furthest south of all the Algonquin tribes.
The post office was established in 1837, marking the official
founding of the City. Suwanee was incorporated in 1949, but
remained a small agricultural-based community into the 1970s.
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