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The Joel Hurt Cottage [3] still stands near Elizabeth and Euclid Streets in Inman Park. Wall Street Journal bureau chief Douglas Blackmon's 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Slavery by Another Name, revealed the extent to which Joel Hurt's fortune was built upon the profitable and exploitative use of harshly-disciplined and cruelly-deprived ...
Inman Park (proper) was planned in the late 1880s by Joel Hurt, a civil engineer and real-estate developer who intended to create a rural oasis connected to the city by the first of Atlanta's electric streetcar lines, along Edgewood Avenue.
The company, owned by Joel Hurt, introduced Atlanta's first electric streetcar service in 1889. The streetcar was designed to make Hurt's garden suburb, Inman Park, easily and comfortably accessible. [2] [4] [5]
In 1866, Inman moved to Augusta, Georgia, and became a businessman. [1] He joined with Joel Hurt that year to form the East Atlanta Land Company with the purpose of developing Inman Park as a residential suburb of Atlanta. [4] [5] They also formed the Atlanta & Edgewood Street Railroad to provide convenient transportation to the new neighborhood.
After relocating to Atlanta, he made his home in the Inman Park suburb, developed by his brother-in-law Joel Hurt. On April 22, 1885, Woodruff married Emily Caroline Winship, child of foundry magnate Robert Winship. [2]
Lucky for you, I have compiled a list of my five favorite restaurants in the Inman Park area for anything from Friday night drinks and tacos to Saturday morning recovery brunch. Top 5 Best ...
3 dead, others hurt as driver crashes into holiday crowd in New York City park. ... The park, on Manhattan’s Lower East Side next to the East River, was full of families “celebrating on a ...
1886 Joel Hurt formed the Atlanta & Edgewood Street Railroad Co., service out Edgewood Avenue to Hilliard and Highland and to Inman Park; 1889 Hurt's streetcar - Atlanta's first electric line - began to run between Five Points and Inman Park and control of Peter's company passed to son Edward C. Peters; Fulton County Street RR Co. began its ...