Menlo, Georgia Menlo, Georgia Menlo is a small city in Chattooga County, Georgia, United States. The population was 474 at the 2010 census. A post office called Menlo has been in operation since 1886. The city was established in the early 1880s, and incorporated in 1903. The city's founder, Captain Andrew Lawrence, named it after Menlo Park, New Jersey, in honor of inventor Thomas Edison. Menlo is located at the base of the Cumberland Plateau in western Chattooga County. It lies just over a mile east of the Alabama border. Georgia State Route 48 runs through the center of town, leading east
Menlo School group of interested parents. The parents dropped the military focus and formed a new corporation, and the Menlo School for Boys was born. Three years later, in 1927, Menlo became a non-profit governed by a newly created board of trustees. The original two-year junior college, Menlo College, was fashioned in that year as an intended expansion of the Menlo School for Boys. During its early decades, this expansion hybridized a prep school with a junior college. Students attended Menlo for the latter two years of high school and then enrolled for two years at the college; after graduating, they transferred