History and Heritage in Atlanta, GA

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Atlanta philanthropist and businessman Amos Giles Rhodes built Le Reve (The Dream) on his 114-acre estate in 1904. De...

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East Point owes its origin to an 1847 Act incorporating the Atlanta & LaGrange RR (now Atlanta & West point). The...

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Historic Oakland Foundation (HOF), a non-profit organization, was established in 1976 and is dedicated to the p...

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The Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic site was established to preserve and interpret the places where D...

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Creator of the Uncle Remus stories and exponent of the New South, Joel Chandler Harris was born December 9, 1848 in E...

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Operated by the Atlanta History Center, the Margaret Mitchell House features guided tours of the apartment wher...

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July 22, 1864. When Gen. McPherson heard the firing to the S.E. while at lunchen (Whiteford Ave. at R.R.), he mounted...

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July 22, 1864. Hardee?s A.C. (4 divis.), (CS) moving N. to the battlefield, was divided into two columns at this road...

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Water-powered sawmill & factory operated in the 1860?s by Samuel A. Durand (1822-1891), later on by Frederick A. Will...

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The Georgia Railway and Power Company, predecessor of Georgia Power, built this trolley waiting station in 1923. The ...

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July 28, 1864. Gen. A.P. Stewart, with Walthall?s and Long?s divisions of his A.C. [CS], reached the field in time to...

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July 22, 1864. Hardee?s A.C., (CS) consisting of 4 divisions, enroute N. to the rear of Federal forces in E. Atlanta,...

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July 22, 1864. The attack by Walker's & Bate's divs. (Hardee's A.C.) (C.S) struck the two brigades Mersy's &...

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Founded circa 1850, the original church was destroyed in 1864 by the Federal Army and rebuilt after the Civil War. Th...

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July 19th, 1864. Blair's 17th A.C. followed by Dodge's 16th (US), having camped near Blake's Mill, 6 mi. N. on the ol...

Rhodes Hall