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  2. Standing Peachtree - Wikipedia

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    Standing Peachtree was a Muscogee village and the closest Indian settlement to what is now the Buckhead area of Atlanta, Georgia. It was located where Peachtree Creek flows into the Chattahoochee River, in today's Paces neighborhood. [1] It was located in the borderlands of the Cherokee and Muscogee nations. It is referred to in several ...

  3. Peachtree Street - Wikipedia

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    Peachtree Street in 1907, carrying streetcar, horse, and automobile traffic. Atlanta grew on a site occupied by the Creek people, which included a major village called Standing Peachtree. There is some dispute over whether the Creek settlement was called Standing Peachtree or Standing Pitch Tree, corrupted later to peach.

  4. Whitehall Street Retail Historic District - Wikipedia

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    The name of the historic district comes from a previous name for Peachtree Street, one of the main roads in Atlanta. [2] Since early in the city's history, this corridor of Whitehall Street was considered a major retail center, [3] with the Atlanta Preservation Center calling it "Atlanta's commercial and retail core."

  5. Viaducts of Atlanta - Wikipedia

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    The Peachtree Street viaduct in front of the Peachtree Arcade, 1917. Mitchell Street (1899), which crosses the Central of Georgia Railway tracks [2] Peachtree Street (opened October 9, 1901) at a cost of $76,662.38. [3] Rebuilt (opened October 1, 2007) at a cost of $6.7 million [4] Courtland Street (1906), which crosses the Georgia Railroad ...

  6. History of Atlanta - Wikipedia

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    Washington Street south of downtown and Peachtree Street north of the central business district became wealthy residential areas. In the 1890s, West End became the suburb of choice for the city's elite, but Inman Park, planned as a harmonious whole, soon overtook it in prestige.

  7. State of Georgia Building - Wikipedia

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    The State of Georgia Building (also known as 2 Peachtree Street and previously known as the First National Bank Building [6]) is a 44-story, 566 feet (173 m) skyscraper located in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Built in 1966, the building was the tallest building in the Southeast at the time. [2]

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  9. Five Points, Atlanta - Wikipedia

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    The name refers to the convergence of Marietta Street, Edgewood Avenue, Decatur Street, and two legs of Peachtree Street (the south-southwestern leg was originally Whitehall Street, before a section of Whitehall was renamed as an extension of Peachtree Street to give businesses south of Five Points the prestige of a Peachtree Street address).