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The Midtown Historic District in Midtown Atlanta, Georgia is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. It is roughly contiguous with what the Midtown Alliance organization calls the "Midtown Neighborhood", which is only part of the much larger Midtown neighborhood. The Midtown Local Historic ...
The Atlanta Urban Design Commission was established by city ordinance in 1975. [1] In 1989, the city enacted its current historic preservation ordinance. [1] Since that time, the city has designated more than seventy individual properties and eighteen districts. [1] There are specific criteria for each type of designation. [2]
The Whitehall Street Retail Historic District is a historic district in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The district is centered on Peachtree Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and includes Broad, Forsyth, and Mitchell Streets. [1] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.
Whittier Mill Village, originally Chattahoochee, a recognized neighborhood of Atlanta on the Upper Westside of Atlanta. It is roughly contiguous with the Whittier Mills Historic District, both locally- and NRHP-listed. The mill and the adjacent village were founded in 1895. The area is a good example of a Southern mill and village.
West End is a historic neighborhood in the U.S. city of Atlanta, one of the oldest outside Downtown Atlanta, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.West End is located southwest of Castleberry Hill, east of Westview, west of Adair Park Historic District, and just north of Oakland City.
1860 Cascade Mansion, home of Dr. William F Poole, son-in-law of Atlanta's first physician, 1530 Dodson Drive SW; As far as cemeteries are concerned, Utoy Cemetery, circa 1826, is Atlanta's oldest. Atlanta's first physician and DeKalb County's first sheriff are buried at the site. [1] [2] Oakland Cemetery was begun in 1850.
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1843 – Town of Marthasville incorporated. [1] 1845 Georgia Railroad (Augusta-Marthasville) begins operating. [1] Marthasville renamed "Atlanta." [1] 1846 – Macon & Western RR connects Atlanta with port of Savannah. [1] 1847 – Town of Atlanta incorporated. [3] 1848 - Moses Formwalt becomes mayor. 1849 - Benjamin Bomar becomes mayor. 1850 ...