Cherokee sits just north of Cobb County and North Fulton, and a big share of its neighborhoods date from the late 1980s on. The county includes Woodstock, Canton, Holly Springs, Ball Ground, Waleska, and a slice of Acworth, plus a big stretch of unincorporated ground between them. Canton is the county seat. Its 1928 courthouse is a five-story Neoclassical building made of Georgia marble from neighboring Pickens County, and it still anchors the square downtown.
Most Cherokee families live in subdivisions, and some of those subdivisions are the size of small towns. Towne Lake, about two miles west of downtown Woodstock, was developed by the Means Brothers company starting in the late 1980s and covers roughly 3,600 acres with shopping, schools, and dozens of sub-neighborhoods. The older sections have ranches and split-levels. Later phases, through the 1990s and 2000s, are mostly two-story traditionals. BridgeMill, on the Canton side, covers more than 1,700 wooded acres along Lake Allatoona. Eagle Watch, Bradshaw Farm, and Great Sky round out the list people mention most. Nearly all of them have an HOA.
The land is not flat. Driveways climb, back yards drop off to basements, and the front of the house is often a story above the street. That makes the roofline look great from the road, and it makes hanging lights yourself a bad idea. We handle the high runs, clip everything to shingles and gutters instead of nailing it, and cut each LED strand to the exact length of the run so there is no slack bunched behind a downspout. Our roofline service page has the details.
Woodstock does a big December night with its Christmas Jubilee, a parade of lights through downtown, and the tree lighting at the park at City Center. If you want your own house lit before then, book early. Install season runs from late October to about mid-December, and the early dates fill first.