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Boundary increase (listed October 13, 2003, refnum 03001016): Roughly bounded by Cleburne, Moreland and DeKalb Aves., Battery Place and a city park: Atlanta: A historic district that spans the DeKalb County-Fulton County border 30
Category: National Register of Historic Places in DeKalb County, Georgia. 1 language.
NRHP count and density by county Georgia counties. The following are tallies of current listings by county. [a]Atkinson County Courthouse Ben Hill County Jail Ocmulgee National Monument, in Bibb County, Georgia Brooks County Courthouse Fort Pulaski, in Chatham County Rosenberg Brothers Department Store, in Dougherty County Georgia State Capitol, in Fulton County Haralson County Courthouse ...
Druid Hills Historic District is a historic district in Druid Hills and Atlanta in DeKalb County, Georgia, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). [ 1 ] Description
Soapstone Ridge is a mafic-ultramafic geological complex located in the Piedmont region, south-east of Atlanta, Georgia on a 25-square-mile (65 km 2) area in DeKalb County and neighboring Fulton and Clayton Counties. The ridge was named from its deposits of metapyroxenite, which early settlers wrongly believed was soapstone. [2]
Just east of the Atlanta city limits at 1510 Key Rd. at Intrenchment Creek Water Plant stood a grist mill operated by William Cobb, a DeKalb County pioneer. The mill was a notable landmark in the movement of Confederate forces to the field of the Battle of Atlanta, fought July 22, 1864. [4]
This is a List of National Historic Landmarks in Georgia. The United States National Historic Landmark program is operated under the auspices of the National Park Service , and recognizes structures, districts, objects, and similar resources according to a list of criteria of national significance.
The area of DeKalb county was acquired by the state of Georgia as a result of the 1821 Treaty of Indian Springs with a faction of the Muscogee (Creek). DeKalb County, formed in 1822 from Henry, Gwinnett and Fayette counties, took its name from Baron Johann de Kalb (1721–1780), a Bavarian-born former officer in the French Army, who fought for the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary ...