David and Frances Cotting
This site was known as the Cotting Estate in the mid 1800’s. David Cotting, teacher, editor and lawyer, served as Secretary of State from 1868-1873. He was also a member of the constitutional...
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Fire Station No. 16 /Atlanta's First African-American Male ~ Female Firefighters
(side 1) During the civil rights movement, members of the African-American community pressured the Mayor and City Council of Atlanta to integrate the city's fire department. In 1962, Mayor Ivan...
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Tiger Flowers
Theodore “Tiger” Flowers was the first African- American boxer to win the world middleweight championship in 1926. Born in Camilla, Georgia in 1895. Flowers moved to Atlanta in 1920 when he began...
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Willis Pentecost Menefee - 1814 – June 24, 1855
Willis Pentecost Menefee Father of the Town — 1814 – June 24, 1855 — Buried here are Willis P. Menefee and his mother Nancy Collier Menefee (Feb. 6, 1771 – Dec. 2, 1852). Major Menefee donated...
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Ramah Baptist Church
The first Baptist Church established in Campbell County in 1828, it became the mother church for many Western and Fairburn Baptist Association churches. James Rainwater (1795 - 1871) was the first...
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Alpharetta Hotel Site
The property was the original location of the Alpharetta Hotel built by Bob Webb in 1908. The hotel was torn down in the 1970’s. It once housed a Boarding House for single school teachers...
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Original Gas Street Light
1964 This is one of the original gas street lights of the town of West End. Presented to the West End Business Men’s Association by the family of Jesse M. Manry and placed on the grounds of the...
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Wesley Chapel / Confederate Commissary / First Methodist Church
Wesley Chapel Established here in 1848. Confederate Commissary Department 1863 - 1864. Site of First Methodist Church 1870-1904 Plaque courtesy Lat34North.com. Original page, with additional info,...
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Paces Ferry United Methodist Church - Established 1877
On 29 September 1877 William Brown donated one acre of land at the intersection of Paces Ferry and Mount Paren Roads for the purpose of establishing and building a church. Pleasant Hill Methodist...
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Brookhaven Historic District
BROOKHAVEN HISTORIC DISTRICT NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Historic Brookhaven is the first planned golf club community in Georgia, having been built around the Capital City County...
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Margaret Mitchell House
Completed in 1899 by Cornelius J. Sheehan, the Margaret Mitchell House, was originally a single- family, Tudor Revival residence. In 1913, the house was relocated to the rear of the property and...
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The Hanging of Andrews Raiders
280 feet south of this location on June 18, 1862, seven of the Union Army´s brave Andrews Raiders were hanged and buried. On April 12, 1862, 22 Andrews Raiders seized the General, a tender...
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Echota Trail crossed the Peach Tree Trail
In this place the Indian trail Echota crossed the Peach Tree trail 1912 Erected by The Atlanta chapter daughters of the American Revolution 1922 Plaque courtesy Lat34North.com. Original page, with...
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The Cherokee Nation
Roswell is situated on land that was once part of the Cherokee Nation. The Etowah (Hightower) Trail, one of the best marked Indian trails in Georgia, crossed the area and was recognized as...
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Crossing of the Union Army at the Shallow Ford
From this site, you can view the path to the 16th U.S. Army Corps under the command of Major General Grenville M. Dodge, as it crossed the Chattahoochee River at the Shallow Ford and entrenched...
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Kelpen Homestead and Old Main Road to Roswell
Just across the street you can still see the standing remnants of the chimney from the old Kelpen Homestead. In your view was a Delta formed by the stream known as Butler´s Branch where it joined...
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Ivy Mills and Laurel Mills Manufacturing Company
You can see foundation remnants of the old Ivy Mill in the distance straight ahead. Founded in the 1850s by brothers Thomas Edward King and James Roswell King, the mills produced woolen and...
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Covered Bridge over the Chattahoochee River
Look up to see the eight arch span of the old two- lane concrete bridge opened in 1925 is part of the sixteen- mile "Roosevelt Boulevard", (Georgia Highway 9) to Atlanta, named in memory...
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Fulton County Superior Court
The Fulton County Courthouse and Justice Center Tower house several courts, including the Superior Court of Fulton Co., Georgia´s busiest trial court of general jurisdiction. The judges of...
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Brig. Gen. A.M. Manigault's Brigade
On July 22nd 1864, Brig. Gen. A.M. Manigault´s brigade, Hindman´s Div. Cheatham´s Corps, advanced eastward from the Atlanta fortifications against the Federal 15th Corps posted at DeGress...
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