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The Downtown Athens Historic District is a historic area in the Downtown Athens neighborhood of Athens, Georgia. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. Its boundaries were revised twice, in 1984 and 2006, and additional documentation was filed in 2006.
In February 2021, Athens Mayor, Kelly Girtz, issued an apology for the role the city had played in destroying Linnentown. His apology was followed by a unanimous approval by the Athens-Clarke County Commission in favor of redress for Linnentown, including establishment of the Athens Justice and Memory project and creation of a memory wall. [9]
The Georgia Brain Train Group is a non-profit organization with the goal to educate the general public about the opportunities surrounding commuter rail. The group is made of community activists, business leaders, and professionals from every county and city along the proposed route.
“It’s stunning to read real-time local responses to historical events – from the Civil War to the New Deal to the War on Poverty."
West Broad Street School was a public school for African Americans founded in 1891, in Athens, Georgia, United States.Three of its historic school buildings remain. [1] [2] The Clarke County Board of Education has been in ongoing discussion about the future of this former campus since 2016, with mention of proposed demolition in order to build a low income early childhood education program at ...
Chicopee-Dudley is a primarily residential neighborhood in Athens, Georgia, located east of the city's Downtown.The neighborhood, as officially defined, straddles the North Oconee River between Third Street and Oconee Street; however, the majority of the neighborhood's territory, landmarks, and population exist to the east of the river.
The Taylor-Grady House is located in central Athens, at the northwest corner of Prince and Grady Avenues, set on a generously sized landscaped lot. It is a rectangular two-story wood-frame structure, with a hip roof that is obscured by a parapet-like entablature that wraps around three sides.
Downtown Athens is the oldest of the main commercial and residential centers in Athens, Georgia, United States.Downtown is generally considered to be the area bounded by Dougherty Street on the north, Broad Street and the University of Georgia campus on the south, Pulaski Street on the west, and Foundry Street by the east.