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Atlanta: 2: 63 Mangum Street Industrial Building: 63 Mangum Street Industrial Building: June 28, 1996 : 63–69 Mangum St. and 398–400 Markham St. Atlanta: 3: 696 Peachtree Street Apartments: 696 Peachtree Street Apartments
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.
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
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."
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.
Atlanta History Center documents show references to the name Pearl Park, after the daughter of a developer who built houses directly to the east of the mill houses near modern-day Pearl Street. The mill, at its height, employed 2,600 people. A protracted strike in 1914-15 failed to unionize the factory's workforce. For over half a century ...
South Downtown was once a bustling shopping district. Whitehall Street, renamed Peachtree Street Southwest, was the principal shopping street of Atlanta from the 1850s until the mid-20th century. A source from 1854 reported that the street was "being built up with stores of brick", while Broad Street was the market district. [3]
The Means Street Historic District in the Marietta Street Artery district of Atlanta consists of historic, mostly 19th and early 20th century warehouse and industrial buildings now converted to office space along one block of Means St. between Bankhead and Ponders Aves. Means Street was named for landowner Alexander Means and was plotted in ...