College Park, Georgia was a planned community originally established in 1890 as the City of Manchester. In 1896, after Cox College and Conservatory, also known as Southern Female College, moved to Manchester from LaGrange, Georgia, the town was renamed College Park since it was not only the home of Cox College, but also Southern Military Academy. The name was chosen in a contest held by city officials. The winner, Lula Roper, also received a choice lot in the city.

Manchester, England has been a settlement since the Romans established a fort there in A.D. 79. The name for this chosen site was Mamucium. The seat of the old kingdom of Lancaster, the town became an industrial centre as early as the 13th century with the first textile mill being established alongside the River Irk. In 1422, Thomas de la Warre, Lord of the Manor, founded a college, granted by royal license, which still survives as "Chets" school.

Manchester is now arguably England ’s second city and was the home of the Women’s Suffrage Movement and one of Ford’s first foreign manufacturing facilities, producing Model T’s as early as 1913. It is of course also home to the richest sports franchise in the world, Manchester United Football Club. The Red Rose is the emblem of the House of Lancaster, one of England ’s oldest families and mortal enemies of the ultimately victorious House of York – whose monarchs include Richard III. Our pub sign was hand-painted in South Georgia and features the Red Rose Symbol and a design originally adapted from a stained glass window in a parish church in England . 

The bar top is made up from timbers reclaimed from box-cars from the Western and Atlantic Railroad and the lead-light windows above the bar were made in 1896 and originally installed in a house in West End, Atlanta. The doors that form the front panels of the bar were taken from an ante-bellum home near Newnan Georgia.

The British Flag hanging in The Great Room is a naval “Union Jack” and is over 100 years old.  It was also flown for many years over the town hall of Salcombe in Devon, South of England.

The Photographs featured upstairs in the “Crooked Chimney” salon are from the family collections of the proprietors.

When DreamMaker Ventures were completing the front garden area they unearthed the horseshoe that can be seen above the front door. Believed to be around 100 years old it is one more link to the heritage of the city.

We proudly serve a selection of fine ales and beers.  Among them Boddingtons, known as the “Cream of Manchester ”.  Boddingtons started brewing their signature ale in the Strangeways Brewery in Manchester in 1778 and it is now enjoyed all over the world.  The Bass Ale red triangle logo was registered in England in 1890 and is Britain’s first registered trademark.  Stella Artois is a fine, light – or "lager" – ale whose history dates back to 1366 in Leuven, Belgium at the brewery dubbed Den Horen, or "the Horn"

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