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These renamings can be identified by the use of the person's full name (e.g., Rev. Dr. Joseph E. Lowery Boulevard) rather than the more traditional last name only (e.g., Cain Street). According to local and state rules and regulations, street renamings must have support of 75% of property owners along that street [ citation needed ] , and state ...
Originally, the property consisted of approximately 2.5 acres (10,000 m 2) overlooking Biscayne Bay before what is now called South Bayshore Drive was built. When the road was first built, it was known as Rhodes Boulevard and was named for Mrs. Trapp's family, which had previously settled in the area and received a 400-acre (1.6 km 2) land grant.
Amos Giles Rhodes (1850–1928) was an Atlanta, Georgia furniture magnate. He was born in 1850 in Henderson, Kentucky. In 1875, he came to Atlanta as a laborer for the L & N Railroad. In 1879, he began a small furniture company which would grow into a large furniture business and make Rhodes a "pillar of the community".
Boise Cold Storage fills most of the property at 304 S. Americana Boulevard, shown in this aerial view. The popular Americana Pizza shop is in a spot of the building at bottom left, next to the ...
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The Monroe County Coroner on Wednesday released the identification of the men killed in a two-vehicle crash south of Waterloo last week.. Jeremy V. Hicks, 44, and Bud G. Rhodes Jr., 44, both of ...
Until the late 1990s, the southernmost 3.0 miles (4.8 km) of CR 511/John Rodes Boulevard (south of Eau Gallie Boulevard/SR 518) was signed by Florida Department of Transportation as State Road 511. The former State Road serves as an access road for I-95. The southernmost 3.0 miles (4.8 km) of John Rodes Boulevard has several communities along it.
Peachtree Street's mansions reached ever further north into what is now Midtown Atlanta, including Amos G. Rhodes' (founder of the Rhodes Furniture Company in 1875) mansion, Rhodes Hall, which can still be visited. Atlanta surpassed Savannah as Georgia's largest city by 1880.