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Redan is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2020 census , the CDP had a total population of 31,749. It is a predominantly African American community in eastern DeKalb County, and is a suburb of Atlanta.
Redan: 1 DeKalb County: 30074 Red Bluff: 1 Ben Hill County Red Bluff: 1 Camden County: 31568 Redbone: 1 Lamar County Redbone Crossroads: 1 Upson County Redbud: 1 Gordon County: 30701 Redclay: 1 Whitfield County: 30710 Red Clay: 1 Whitfield County Red Hill: 1 Franklin County: 30557 Red Hill: 1 Stewart County: 31825 Redland: 1 Wayne County: 31545
The area of DeKalb county was acquired by the state of Georgia as a result of the 1821 Treaty of Indian Springs with a faction of the Muscogee (Creek). DeKalb County, formed in 1822 from Henry, Gwinnett and Fayette counties, took its name from Baron Johann de Kalb (1721–1780), a Bavarian-born former officer in the French Army, who fought for the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary ...
Redan was established in 1976 by the DeKalb County School District. The school's mascot is the Raider. Both Redan High School and its "twin," Stone Mountain High School , were built without any main windows on their exteriors (except for in the main common area).
Redan (a French word for "projection", "salient") is a feature of fortifications. It is a work in a V-shaped salient angle towards an expected attack. It can be made from earthworks or other material. [1] The redan developed from the lunette, originally a half-moon-shaped outwork; with shorter flanks it became a redan.
As of 2021, 85.62% (8,711,102) of Georgia residents age 5 and older spoke English at home as a primary language, while 7.82% (795,646) spoke Spanish, and 6.55% (666,849) spoke languages other than English or Spanish at home, with the most common of which were Vietnamese, Chinese, and Korean.
2 The original "Smokey and the Bandit" was filmed partially in Redan and the surrounding area in 1977.
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