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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 .
This is a list of the more than 2,000 properties and historic districts in the U.S. state of Georgia that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Listings are distributed across all of Georgia's 159 counties. Listings for the city of Atlanta are primarily in Fulton County's list but spill over into DeKalb County's list
Techwood Homes, late 1930s Family in Techwood Homes apartment, late 1930s. Techwood Homes was an early public housing project in the Atlanta, Georgia in the United States, opened just before the First Houses. The whites-only Techwood Homes replaced an integrated settlement of low-income people known as Tanyard Bottom or Tech Flats.
Whether you enjoy hunting for a good vintage find or just discovered some old boxes from your grandparents in the attic, you could have a few treasures on your hands.. For You: 6 Little Luxuries ...
1860 Cascade Mansion, home of Dr. William F Poole, son-in-law of Atlanta's first physician, 1530 Dodson Drive SW; As far as cemeteries are concerned, Utoy Cemetery, circa 1826, is Atlanta's oldest. Atlanta's first physician and DeKalb County's first sheriff are buried at the site. [1] [2] Oakland Cemetery was begun in 1850.
Built in 1949, Ed Tucker Memorial Homes (aka “Tucker Homes”) was a 200-unit co-operative housing project designed as a memorial to veterans of Atlanta who gave their lives in World War 2. A combined effort between the FHA and the non-profit Veteran's Corporation, it was named for a young B-24 navigator from College Park, Georgia who died in ...
On Monday, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced the arrest of Erik Kristensen Sparre, 61, who was charged with two counts of felony murder and aggravated assault for the deaths of couple ...
The Sony model CV-2000, first marketed in 1965, is their first VTR intended for home use and is based on half-inch tape. [15] Ampex and RCA followed in 1965 with their own open-reel monochrome VTRs priced under US $1,000 for the home consumer market. Prerecorded videos for home replay became available in 1967. [16]