Custom Home Builders in Athens, Georgia

Build Your Custom Home in Athens-Clarke County, GA

Athens, a unified city-county with Clarke County is located in the northeastern part of Georgia. This college town is where the University of Georgia is located. The university, which was founded in the 1800s, was responsible for the city's initial growth. Athens is the fifth largest city in the state of Georgia and in 2009 had an estimated population of 114, 983. Athens is located in a place that was once a trading settlement along the banks of Oconee River, called the Cedar Shoals.

College and Universities

There are three prominent colleges in Athens: the University of Georgia (UGA), the Athens Technical College (ATC) and the Piedmont College.

The University of Georgia is the oldest and the largest of all the state's higher learning institutions and is a public research university. UGA had its first building made from logs. Additional funds for school construction were raised from the money they got by selling the adjacent lots to the college, which was then made to help the town grow. It was 1804 when the first class graduated from the university. Athens by that time consisted of three stores, three homes, and few buildings all facing Broad Street, previously known as the Front Street. Another college was completed in 1806 and was named to honor Benjamin Franklin, Franklin College, which is the University of Georgia and Athens' first stable structure. Currently, the brick building is known as Old College.

Athens Technical College is a public college in Athens offering diplomas, certificates as well as associate degrees in health, business, manufacturing and technical related fields. Piedmont college on the other hand is an institution for private liberal arts founded in 1897 in service to the residents of Appalachian area in the northeast part of the state.

Athens: In & Around Town

Culture is coexisting with students from the university with the creation of a music scene, an art scene and an intellectual environment. The city has lots of unusual treasures. One remarkable aspect is the remains of one of the two double barreled cannons which were produced from the American Civil War. Another is the famous "Tree That Owns Itself," which is currently the original tree's offspring. The city has two public gardens: the State Botanical Garden of Georgia and the University of Georgia Campus Arboretum.

Being a college town, there is an abundance of night life and eateries in Athens. But giving class to the city's night lights are two notable bars: Allen's, which is the oldest bar and the Glob Bar, which ranks third in Esquire magazine's top bars in America in 2007.

A great contribution to the city's blossoming economy is Network Translations, Inc, the manufacturer of PIX firewall, which was then purchased by the Cisco Systems' company. The thousands of jobs created by the presence of the university and local colleges also keep the Athens's economy strong.

Moving to Athens, GA

For those wishing to take full advantage of all that Athens-Clarke County has to offer year round, Southland Custom Homes specializes in Georgia new homes in the Athens-Clarke County area. Southland Custom Homes is an on-your-lot custom home builder, meaning they build the home of your dreams in the location of your choice!

With over 100 floorplan options to choose from and an array of top-of-the-line interior appointments, Southland Custom Homes is among the premier Home Builders in GA. In addition to providing a huge selection of plan options, Southland Custom Homes will even work with new homebuyers to alter a specific floorplan so that it is exactly what the buyer wants. If you are looking for a custom builder in Athens-Clarke County, Southland Custom Homes is sure to meet and exceed your expectations.

Southland Custom Homes, a custom builder in Athens, GA has model showrooms located in Macon (3956 Bloomfield Village Drive, Macon, GA 31206), Dawsonville (98 Bethel Drive, Dawsonville, GA 3053), and Marietta (265 N. Cobb PKWY, Marietta, GA 30062). Stop by or call us today at 1-866-56-BUILD* to see all that Southland has to offer!

If you are looking for a home builder in GA, Southland Custom Homes builds in the following locations:

Baldwin County
Banks County
Barrow County
Bartow County
Bibb County
Bleckley County
Butts County
Carroll County
Cherokee County
Clarke County
Clayton County
Cobb County
Coweta County
Crawford County
Dawson County
DeKalb County
Dooly County
Douglas County
Fannin County
Fayette County
Floyd County
Forsyth County
Fulton County
Gilmer County
Gordon County
Greene County
Gwinnett County
Habersham County
Hall County
Hancock County
Haralson County
Hart County
Heard County
Henry County
Jackson County
Jasper County
Jones County
Lamar County
Lumpkin County
Macon County
Madison County
Meriwether County
Monroe County
Morgan County
Newton County
Oconee County
Oglethorpe County
Paulding County
Peach County
Pickens County
Pike County
Polk County
Pulaski County
Putnam County
Rockdale County
Stephens County
Talbot County
Taylor County
Twiggs County
Union County
Upson County
Walton County
White County
Wilkinson County

We also build in the following cities in Georgia:

Acworth
Alpharetta
Athens
Athens-Clarke
Atlanta
Barrow
Bartow
Belvedere
Belvedere Park
Brookhaven
Butts
Calhoun
Canton
Carroll
Carrollton
Cartersville
Cherokee
Cobb
College Park
Coweta
Cumming
Dawsonville
Decatur
Dekalb
Douglas
Dublin
Douglasville
Dunwoody
Duluth
East Point
Ellijay
Fayette
Forest Park
Forest
Forsyth
Gainesville
Grantville
Griffin
Gwinnett
Hall
Henry
Hinesville
Hogansville
Jasper
John's Creek
Kennesaw
LaGrange
Lake Allatoona
Lake Blue Ridge
Lake Chatuge
Lake Hartwell
Lake Jackson
Lake Lanier
Lake Nottely
Lake Oconee
Lawrenceville
Lone Oak
Mableton
Macon
Marietta
McDonough
Milledgeville
Milton
Newnan
Newton
North Atlanta
North Druid Hills
The North Georgia mountains
Paulding
Peachtree City
Redan
Rockdale
Rome
Roswell
Sandy Springs
Smyrna
Snellville
Spalding
Stone Mountain
Sugar Hill
Tucker
Union City
Washington
Winder