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A concert at The Masquerade when it was located at the DuPre Mill DuPree Mfrg. Co. Excelsior Factory on a 1911 Sanborn map. Located at 695 North Avenue in Atlanta, the Dupre Excelsior Mill (the actual name as of 1911 was "Du Pree Manufacturing Company Excelsior Factory") [1] may have been built as early as 1890 by DuPre (also spelled Du Pree) Manufacturing Company. [1]
There were several historic mills around the metro Atlanta area, for which many of its current-day roads are still named. Most of the mills date back to the 1820s and 1830s, and were built along the area's many streams. The locations of many of these mills are shown on a map of 1875 showing U. S. military operations around Atlanta in 1864.
Southern Railway's 1918 facility, named Peachtree Station but known locally as Brookwood Station, has been Atlanta's only long-distance passenger rail stop since 1970. Amtrak took over Southern's Crescent route in the '70s, which (as of 2015) continues to operate between New Orleans and N.Y. City .
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."
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The area in the city limits of Atlanta known today as Castleberry Hill was originally part of the renegade Snake Nation community that functioned during the 1850s. [3] [4] According to an article from Atlanta Magazine, [5] Castleberry Hill was, by the mid-nineteenth century, a red-light district filled with prostitutes, gambling, and cockfighting.
Pages in category "Manufacturing companies based in Atlanta" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Buckhead is the uptown commercial and residential district of the city of Atlanta, Georgia, comprising approximately the northernmost fifth of the city.Buckhead is the third largest business district within the Atlanta city limits, behind Downtown and Midtown, and a major commercial and financial center of the Southern U.S.