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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.
The name of the historic district comes from a previous name for Peachtree Street, one of the main roads in Atlanta. [2] Since early in the city's history, this corridor of Whitehall Street was considered a major retail center, [3] with the Atlanta Preservation Center calling it "Atlanta's commercial and retail core."
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 vehicle maintenance facility is located under the I-75/I-85 overpass on Edgewood Avenue [13] The exact route is: From the King Historic Site at Jackson Street and Auburn Avenue, westbound along Auburn Avenue to Peachtree Street. North on Peachtree Street, stopping at Peachtree Center MARTA station, to Ellis Street.
1896 Atlanta Constitution advertorial promoting the Nine Mile Circle 1902 map of Atlanta's streetcar network including Nine Mile Circle route. The Nine-Mile Circle (today often called the "Nine Mile Trolley") was a streetcar line of the Atlanta Street Railway, later the Atlanta Consolidated Street Railway which went from downtown Atlanta to today's Virginia-Highland neighborhood as follows:
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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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