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Gravesite at Oakland Cemetery. Samuel Bacon Spencer (December 26, 1827 – October 16, 1901) was the last mayor of Atlanta, Georgia to serve a one-year term. Spencer was born on December 26, 1827. In 1848, he graduated from Oglethorpe University in Milledgeville, Georgia. [1] On December 12, 1849, Spencer married the former Mary E. Baker. [2]
The neoclassical Neal Monument in historic Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta, Georgia.Photo taken by J. Glover on March 12, 2005 with a Nikon D70. (Tighter crop) The monument was commissioned by Capt. Thomas Benton Neal (1838 - 1902) in memory of his daughter Mary Elizabeth "Lizzie" Neal (1867 - June 17, 1889) and wife Mary "Mollie" Cash Neal (1844 - 1894).
Other major highways that run through the city include Georgia State Route 91, Georgia State Route 133, Georgia State Route 234, and Georgia State Route 520. Albany is located on Georgia State Route 300 (Georgia-Florida Parkway), which provides easy access to Cordele , and Interstate 75 to the northeast and south to Camilla , and Thomasville .
Charles Augustus Collier (/ ˈ k ɒ l i ər /; July 19, 1848 – September 28, 1900) was an American banker, lawyer, and politician who served as Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, from 1897 to 1899. Early career [ edit ]
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.
South-View Cemetery is a historic African-American-founded cemetery located approximately 15 minutes from downtown Atlanta, Georgia.An active operational cemetery on over 100 acres of land, it is the oldest African-American cemetery in Atlanta, Georgia and the oldest African-American “non eleemosynary” corporation in the country. [3]
Born in Acworth, New Hampshire, [1] he came to Georgia in 1839 and taught school for four years in Coweta County. [2] He then completed his medical training at New York University before arriving as an early Atlanta settler in 1847 where he practiced that trade and a few others.
Corput died on January 16, 1911, in Atlanta and was buried there in Oakland Cemetery. His grave was unmarked until 2014. His wife, and mother of their six children, Marie, was 24 years younger than him and died in 1920. [9] Corput and his battery are the namesakes of the Sons of Confederate Veterans Capt. Max van den Corput's Battery Camp #669. [4]