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State Route 236 is a 10.30-mile (16.58 km) long state highway in Fulton County and DeKalb County, Georgia. The route begins at Piedmont Road in south Buckhead and ends at Lawrenceville Highway (US 29/SR 8) in Tucker. It is signed as Lindbergh Drive in Fulton County, and LaVista Road in DeKalb County.
State Route 141 Connector (SR 141 Conn.) is a 0.9-mile-long (1.4 km) connecting route of SR 141 that exists entirely within the Buckhead section of Atlanta, in eastern Fulton County.
Lawrenceville is a city in and the county seat of Gwinnett County, Georgia, United States. [4] It is a suburb of Atlanta, located approximately 30 miles (50 km) northeast of downtown. It was incorporated on December 15, 1821. As of the 2020 census, the population of Lawrenceville was 30,629. [5]
State Route 317 (SR 317; Lawrenceville–Suwanee Road) is a state highway in the Atlanta metropolitan area of the U.S. state of Georgia. Route description
The first portion of the highway was completed as a freeway to Lawrenceville in 1960, after the city was bypassed by I-85. With the subsequent expansion of Atlanta into its eastern suburbs, travel between the capital and Athens became increasingly difficult as highways US 29 and US 78 were both routed through multiple business districts.
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 .
North DeKalb Mall and adjacent shopping centers along Lawrenceville Highway at the northeast corner of the district Toco Hills, a de facto commercial center for several CDPs north of the city of Decatur, has grown from a country store in 1950, with a single gas pump and a pot-bellied stove, to multiple shopping centers, coffee houses, houses of ...
The Equitable Building, completed in 1892, is generally regarded as the first high-rise in the city. [3] Atlanta went through a major building boom from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, during which the city saw the completion of 13 of its 40 tallest buildings, including the Bank of America Plaza, Truist Plaza, One Atlantic Center, and 191 Peachtree Tower.