Sandy Springs UMC Historic Cemetery
SANDY SPRINGS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH FORMERLY SANDY SPRINGS METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH SOUTH FOUNDED 1848 HISTORIC CEMETERY MARKED BY ALFRED HOLT COLQUITT CHAPTER U.D.C.JULY 6, 1986...
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The Battle of Peachtree Creek Plaque 6 - The Confederate Attack - Continued
On the right, Harrison placed two regiments across Tanyard Branch, to connect with Candy´s left, and three on the slight rise east of it. Scott´s brigade advanced across the thickly wooded...
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The Battle of Peachtree Creek Plaque 5 - The Confederate Attack
On July 20th, Hood ordered the attack to begin at 1:00 P.M. Hardee and Stewart were to advance, drive the enemy back to the creek, and then west into the angle formed by the creek and the...
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The Battle of Peachtree Creek Plaque 4 - The Federal Advance Cont. - The Change of Command
The Federal Advance - Continued It finally reached the golf course area and deployed with Wood´s brigade on the left, Coburn´s in the center and Harrison´s on the right. Earlier, Newton´s division...
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The Battle of Peachtree Creek Plaque 3 - The Federal Advance
After noon on July 9th, Schofield´s Army of the Ohio (23rd Corps) had forced Johnston to cross the Chattahoochee River that night by a surprise crossing up river at Soap Creek. On the...
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The Battle of Peachtree Creek Plaque 2 - Forces Engaged
The Federal Forces Engaged (Sherman’s right wing) The Army of the Cumberland Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas Fourth Corps. * 2nd Division Brig. Gen. John Newton (Kimball’s, Blake’s and...
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The Battle of Peachtree Creek Plaque 1 - July 20, 1864
The battle of Peachtree Creek was the first of three desperate Confederate attacks on the armies commanded by Maj. General Wm. T. Sherman which were closing in on Atlanta. Although...
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The Burning and Destruction of Atlanta
After capturing Atlanta in September 1864 during the Civil War, Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, before leaving Atlanta on the March to the Sea, ordered the destruction of all railroads, factories,...
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The Battles for Atlanta
Between July and Sept. 1864, during the American Civil War, U.S. and Confederate armies struggled for control of Atlanta, the major manufacturing center and railroad hub of the Deep South....
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Oakland Cemetery
In 1850 the City of Atlanta established a public cemetery on this ridge overlooking downtown. Originally know as Atlanta or City Cemetery, the name Oakland was adopted in 1872 because of its many...
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Whittier Cotton Mill and Village
Whittier Cotton Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts opened a new Atlanta factory on this site in 1896. Development of the mill complex included the construction of Whittier Mill Village, a...
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The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Redeemer
The Lutheran Church of the Redeemer was founded in 1903 as the first English-speaking congregation in Atlanta. The church´s first building was erected in 1905 near the state capitol. The church...
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Academy of Medicine
Thirteen Atlanta physicians organized the Brotherhood of Physicians in 1854. After many location and name changes, the Brotherhood evolved into the Fulton County Medical Society, which dedicated...
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Georgia Power
Georgia Power A Citizen Wherever We Served Electricity came to Atlanta in 1884, when the Georgia Electric Light Company of Atlanta, chartered in 1883, began operating its first generating plant...
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Gov. John M. Slaton
Gov. John M. Slaton 1866-1955 John Marshall Slaton was born in Meriwether County and graduated from the University of Georgia before practicing law in Atlanta. Slaton served in both houses of...
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Rush Memorial Congregational Church
In the spring of 1960, students from Atlanta University, the Interdenominational Theological Center, Clark, Morehouse, Morris Brown, and Spelman colleges formed the Atlanta Student Movement and...
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The Atlanta Student Movement
In February 1960, here at the site of Yates and Milton Drugstore, three students from Morehouse College–Lonnie King, Joseph Pierce, and Julian Bond–began to rally students from Atlanta’s...
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Delta Air Lines
Delta Air Lines began in 1924 as a crop dusting company, based first in Macon, Georgia, and then Monroe, Louisiana. C.E. Woolman led a group of investors in buying the company in 1928 and renamed...
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Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church
Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church Atlanta’s First African-American Catholic Church Our Lady of Lourdes was established in November 1912 by Father Ignatius Lissner as the first...
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Rhodes Hall - Le Reve
Atlanta philanthropist and businessman Amos Giles Rhodes built Le Reve (The Dream) on his 114-acre estate in 1904. Designed by Atlanta architect Willis F. Denny II, the house is constructed...
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