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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- Gainesville-Hall County has over 400 physicians representing over $310 million in annual revenues.
- Gainesville-Hall County is home to one of the country's oldest women's colleges - Brenau University.
- Gainesville-Hall County has more goods-producing jobs, per capita, than any other community in North Georgia.
- A new $200 million hospital and multi-specialty medical practice is planned for construction in 2010.
- Northeast Georgia’s regional commercial center: Over $5.5 million of office and professional space.
- The Village of Deaton's Creek from Del Webb has been metro Atlanta's fastest-growing community two years in a row.
- The Interactive Neighborhood for Kids (INK) is the largest children's interactive museum in North Georgia.
- Northeast Georgia Medical Center operates the third busiest Emergency Room in Georgia.
- Lanier Tech is Georgia's state-of-the-art center for manufacturing technologies.
- Hall County has lowest property taxes of any ex-urban county in the Atlanta area.








