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990 Peachtree Street, NE 2008-06-10 Historic Crum & Forster Building: 771 Spring Street, NW 2009-8-25 Landmark Dixie Coca-Cola Bottling Company Plant: 125 Edgewood Ave., NE 1989-10-23 Landmark Yes Feebeck Hall 96 Armstrong St., NE 1989-10-23 Historic First Congregational Church: 115 Courtland St., NE 1989-10-23 Landmark Yes Flatiron Building
A view of a horsecar on Peachtree Street in 1882. Atlanta streetcar, 1910. Pay-as-you-enter cars were being introduced at the time. Streetcars originally operated in Atlanta downtown and into the surrounding areas from 1871 until the final line's closure in 1949.
From its founding in 1847, Atlanta has had a penchant for frequent street renamings, even in the central business district, usually to honor the recently deceased.As early as 1903 (see section below), there were concerns about the confusion this caused, as "more than 225 streets of Atlanta have had from two to eight names" in the first decades of the city.
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 .
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.
Edgewood Avenue near Boulevard and "Church" bar Edgewood Avenue near Boulevard at night 1883 map showing Foster Street, before Edgewood Avenue existed. Edgewood Avenue is a street in Atlanta, Georgia, United States which runs from Five Points in Downtown Atlanta, eastward through the Old Fourth Ward.
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Layout of Atlanta's five wards (1854–1871) The 1848 charter only specified election of six citywide councilmembers, but on January 9, 1854, an ordinance was adopted that divided the town into five wards and two councilmen from each ward would be elected to coincide with the completion of the first official city hall.