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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.
1850 (completed) 1967 Toronto: St. Lawrence Hall was for many years Toronto's chief social and cultural centre, and is among the finest 19th century public buildings in Canada The Grange [66] [67] 1817 (completed) 1970 Toronto
City of Atlanta designated landmark and historic buildings and sites Building/Site Name Street Address Date Designated Designation Type Also on NRHP? Academy of Medicine: 875 West Peachtree St., N.W. 1989-10-23 Landmark Yes Andrews-Dunn House 2801 Andrews Dr., NW 1992-12-2 Landmark Atlanta City Hall: 68 Mitchell St., SE 1989-10-23 Landmark Yes
Name Address Coordinates Government recognition (CRHP №) Image 1929 clubhouse of the Toronto Hunt Club: 1107 Avenue Road Toronto ON : Federal () More images: 47 Front Street East
Atlanta: An Illustrated History (2003), popular history; Link, William A. Atlanta, Cradle of the New South: Race and Remembering in the Civil War's Aftermath (UNC Press, 2013). Meier, August, and David Lewis. "History of the Negro upper class in Atlanta, Georgia, 1890-1958". Journal of Negro Education 28.2 (1959): 128–139. in JSTOR; Mixon ...
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.
Restaurant districts include Buckhead, Virginia-Highland, [20] and the Luckie-Marietta District downtown. [21] Current avant-garde culinary districts are the Old Fourth Ward, particularly Edgewood Avenue, [22] and West Midtown, home to Atlanta's two top Zagat-rated restaurants, Bacchanalia and the Quinones Room. [23]
The Sweet Auburn Historic District is a historic African-American neighborhood along and surrounding Auburn Avenue, east of downtown Atlanta, Georgia, United States.The name Sweet Auburn was coined by John Wesley Dobbs, referring to the "richest Negro street in the world," one of the largest concentrations of African-American businesses in the United States.