Welcome to A Great Story to Tell, a website that highlights how the progressive community of Gainesville and Hall County, Georgia, stands out in so many ways compared to the rest of the United States.
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- The Village of Deaton's Creek from Del Webb has been metro Atlanta's fastest-growing community two years in a row.
- Gainesville's Lake Lanier houses the world's largest inland marina and the largest marina in the United States.
- Gainesville-Hall County serves a trade area of 16 counties and more than 1 million people.
- Northeast Georgia Medical Center operates the third busiest Emergency Room in Georgia.
- Lake Lanier homes have maintained value (average $605,000) despite economic correction.
- Gainesville-Hall County's regional population exceeds 479,000 from 15 surrounding counties.
- The largest concentration of pre-retirement and active-adult housing companies in northern metro-Atlanta.
- New to our area: a 128-bed patient tower, a women and children's center and 100,000 square feet of medical offices.
- Gainesville-Hall County is a regional biotech center with a world-class stable of international life-sciences...
- Hall County has lowest property taxes of any ex-urban county in the Atlanta area.








