History:
Queen City settlers likely began their sojourn in a community they called “Lanark,” five miles north of Atlanta. When the citizens of Lanark discovered the title to the town site was void and could not be adjusted, they looked for a new place to locate.
Hutchison and Dr. George Salmon went to Atlanta to investigate the possibility of moving the entire population of Lanark to that town. But instead, Hutchison and a dozen of others formed a stock company and established their own town in 1876. The town was located on the J.M. Clements survey.
Though Queen City wasn’t formally organized until 1876, some of the Clements family had migrated from Georgia as early as the 1840s. Twenty years before Queen City was established there had been a post office at Courtland, two miles northwest.
In July of 1876, a big picnic and auction sale of lots was held. The name of the town “Queen City” came as an inspiration to Hutchison, and it was adopted over the protests of some who had moved from Georgia and desired the town to be named Marietta, Georgia. Queen City was incorporated on July 6, 1876.