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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.
September — The Atlanta BeltLine Lantern Parade attracted over 10,000 people to light up the night along the Eastside Trail. November — The Atlanta BeltLine Partnership launched free fitness classes along the Atlanta BeltLine. November — Atlanta BeltLine Bike Tours began. November — The Atlanta BeltLine online shop officially opened. 2014
The Atlanta Botanical Garden is home to the Kendeda Canopy Walk, a 600-foot-long (180 m) skywalk that allows the visitors to tour one of the city's last remaining urban forests from around 40 feet in the air through the treetops of the Storza Woods. The skywalk extends from a bluff in the Garden into the branches of oaks, hickories and poplars. [3]
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 Goat Farm Arts Center is a visual and performing arts center located in West Midtown, Atlanta, Georgia.The center is housed in a 19th-century complex of industrial buildings and contains the studio space of over 300 artists.
Freedom Park is one of the largest city parks in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The park forms a cross shape with the axes crossing at the Carter Center . The park stretches west-east from Parkway Drive, just west of Boulevard , to the intersection with the north-south BeltLine Eastside Trail , to Candler Park , and north-south from Ponce de ...
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In the 1979 nomination form to establish the Underground Atlanta Historic District for listing on the National Register of Historic Places, the cited area is bounded by the modern-day Alabama Street, Central Avenue, Peachtree Street (formerly Whitehall), and Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive; a handwritten note extends it to a four-block area ...