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Ponce de Leon Springs was a mineral spring in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States. The spring was a popular tourist destination from the mid-1800s through the early 1900s. Around the turn of the century, the land surrounding the spring was developed into an amusement park.
Ponce de Leon Avenue begins at Spring Street at the south edge of Midtown Atlanta, though prior to the construction of the Downtown Connector, it started a block further west at Williams Street (across from Georgia Tech, one block east of Bobby Dodd Stadium) [5] It passes West Peachtree Street and then Peachtree Street, the city block which has the BellSouth Building (now Tower Square) and the ...
120 East Ponce de Leon Avenue Avondale Estates Avondale station Ponce de Leon Avenue 8.8 miles (14.2 km) 121 Memorial Drive / North Hairston Road Kensington Kensington station Tucker North Royal Atlanta Drive & Commerce Place Memorial Drive, North Hairston Road (Mountain Industrial Boulevard) 10.1 miles (16.3 km) Trips alternate between each branch
SR 42 Conn. west (Freedom Parkway) – Downtown Atlanta: Eastern terminus of SR 42 Conn. 110.3: 177.5: US 23 north / US 29 / US 78 / US 278 / SR 8 / SR 10 (Ponce de Leon Avenue) – Downtown Atlanta, Decatur: Northern end of US 23 concurrency: DeKalb 113.6: 182.8: SR 236 (LaVista Road NE) – Downtown Atlanta, Tucker 114.9: 184.9
The eastern branch of Clear Creek begins in several springs and streams located in what are now Inman Park and the Old Fourth Ward. Flowing northward, the creek is joined by additional springs and branches, including Angier Springs near the end of Belgrade Avenue and the Ponce de Leon Springs. The latter, "discovered" during railroad ...
After crossing under a stone arch railroad bridge and entering Decatur, Ponce de Leon Avenue becomes a local street, while US 23/US 29/US 78/SR 8 branches off to the northeast onto Scott Boulevard. This concurrency comes to an end when US 29/US 78/SR 8 encounters SR 155 (Clairemont Avenue), and US 23 makes a left turn onto that street.
South Ponce de Leon Avenue immediately splits off to the southeast, but US 23/US 29/US 78/US 278/SR 8/SR 10 only travels along the main Ponce de Leon Avenue along the northern edges of Springdale Park, Virgilee Park, and Brightwood Park, while South Ponce de Leon travels along the south side of these parks.
The street runs east of, and parallel to, Atlanta's Downtown Connector. It begins at Ponce de Leon Avenue in the north (north of which it continues as Monroe Drive), passing through the Old Fourth Ward, Cabbagetown, and Grant Park, and forming the border between Chosewood Park on the west and Boulevard Heights and Benteen Park to the east.