Rest Haven, GA

Rest Haven is a town primarily in northern Gwinnett and partly in southern Hall counties in the U.S. state of Georgia. The 2020 census counted 45 residents. Rest Haven is located along Georgia State Route 13, a highway from Atlanta to Gainesville that is immediately west of Interstate 985. The Gwinnett County portion of Rest Haven is part of the Atlanta–Sandy Springs–Marietta, GA-AL metropolitan statistical area, while the Hall County portion is part of the Gainesville, GA metropolitan statistical area. Rest Haven's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider Georgia setting.

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The local scoop is how Rest Haven's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. The town was granted a municipal charter in 1938. Rest Haven was announced on September 19, 2005, that the town leaders wished to be annexed into Buford, a much larger city which surrounds Rest Haven except on the north.