AUSTIN HARRIS - EDWARD JONES

Pictured is the Bank of Covington and Opera House in downtown Covington in the late 1800s. Special Photo | Historical Society of Newton County

STOVALL FROM PAGE 5 county’s six cities — Covington, Oxford, Newborn, Mansfield, Social Circle and Porterdale — dropped something in the capsule to be opened again in the next 200 years.

For Covington, Newton County’s county seat, a laminated copy of the city employee listing was placed. Covington was founded by European immigrants to the United States and was incorporated as a settlement in 1822. It was named after United States Army Brigadier General and U.S. Congressman Leonard Covington of War of 1812 fame. It was formally incorporated as a city in 1854.

Now, with its close to 15,000 residents and a portion I-20 running east to west through it, Covington has grown from a rural Georgia town sometimes seen to be off the beaten path, into a small city considered part of East Metro Atlanta — one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United States.

Covington has evolved into an ethically and politically diverse epicenter of industry, with the addition of several new business developments just in the last 20 years, which mark the city as a destination for industry growth.

Known as “The Hollywood of the South,” Covington boasts being the site where more than 70 movies, television sitcoms and other shows have been either personally or predominantly shot — with such titles as Vampire Diaries, the movie “Remember the Titans” (which was partly filmed at Sharp Stadium where the city’s three high schools play football), “The Dukes of Haz-

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