Kosher and Jewish Life in Alpharetta

Alpharetta is a city located in northern Fulton County, Georgia, United States and is a suburb of Atlanta. The estimated population in 2017 was 65,799. In the 1830s, the Cherokee people in Georgia and elsewhere in the South were forcibly relocated to the Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma) under the Indian Removal Act. Pioneers and farmers later settled on the newly vacated land, situated along a former Cherokee trail stretching from the North Georgia mountains to the Chattahoochee River. Known as the town of Milton through July 1858, the city of Alpharetta was chartered on December 11, 1858.