Early Segregation On Auburn Avenue
In 1900, businesses and professional firms at this end of Auburn Avenue were primarily White-owned and segregated, including United Investment Corporation Holding, Equitable Credit Union, and the...
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Original Coca-Cola Bottling Co.
This building has been designated as a National Historic Landmark. Best known to Atlantans as the first Georgia bottling plant of the Coca-Cola Company, this small two story commercial...
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The Battle of Ezra Church - Plaque 7 - Map
Map - The Battle of Ezra Church Plaque courtesy Lat34North.com. Original page, with additional info, here. Photo credit: Byron Hooks of Lat34North.com.
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The Battle of Ezra Church - Plaque 6 - Forces Engaged
The Union Forces Engaged The Army of the Tennessee Maj. Gen. O. O. Howard The 15th Corps. Maj. Gen. John A. Logan 1stDivision Brig. Gen. Charles R, Woodson (Milo Smith´s, Williamson´s and...
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The Battle of Ezra Church - Plaque 5 - The Confederate Attack (con't)
Dense woods screened the extent of the Union line until revealed by storms of musketry which swept Brown´s ranks, in front and on the right where Williams´ fire enfiladed Johnston´s exposed...
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The Battle of Ezra Church - Plaque 4 - The Confederate Attack
On July 27th, Lieut. Gen. Stephen D. Lee assumed command of Hood´s former corps. Both he and Stewart directed to hold their respective corps "in readiness" and to report at Hood´s headquarters....
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The Battle of Ezra Church - Plaque 3 - The Union Dispositions
While the 15th Corps was feeling its way south through the densely wooded county behind Blair´s right, increasing resistance by Confederate cavalry skirmishers (dismounted), and...
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The Battle of Ezra Church - Plaque 2 - The Preliminary Operations
The city was encircled by 12 miles of fortification which Sherman later deemed "unassailable". Johnston was confident that he could hold Atlanta "forever", but he did not intend to become...
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The Battle of Ezra Church - Plaque 1
The Battle of Ezra Church July 28, 1864 The Battle of Ezra Church was the third of three desperate Confederate attacks on the forces of Maj. Gen. Wm. T. Sherman, which were closing in on Atlanta....
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The Evacuation of Atlanta
On July 30, 1864, General Hood, retaining Stewart´s corps in Atlanta, sent Hardee and Lee to Jonesboro to dispossess the enemy whose seizure of the railway at this point was ominous of...
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The Battle of Atlanta
Sherman´s grand objective in this campaign was the capture of Atlanta. The strategic importance of the Georgia capital as a military stronghold and depot of supplies was recognized by the...
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Transfer of Command
Under orders from President Davis, on July 17, 1864, General Joseph E. Johnston, the masterful tactician and soldier, relinquished command of the Army of Tennessee. To succeed him, General John...
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The Siege of Atlanta
Following these sanguinary Battle of July 22, 1864, enemy entrenched himself to the east and south of Atlanta. Then began the long and fearful siege which, lasting for six weeks, was veritably a...
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Hewlett Lodge
Hewlett Lodge The park’s headquarters and visitor center formerly served as a family summer retreat for Samuel D Hewlett, Sr., a prominent Atlanta attorney. Its rustic Adirondacks style –...
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Slave Square
Slave Square In 1852 the Atlanta City Council ruled that African-Americans were to be buried in a segregated section at the rear of Oakland Cemetery, at the eastern boundary of the original 6...
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Yates and Milton Drug Store
On this site stood yet eight’s in Milton drugstore, the first African-American business of its kind in Atlanta. It was here that the Atlanta student movement was planned on February 4, 1960. Clark...
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An Appeal to Human Rights
side 1 An Appeal For Human Rights small text – not transcribed The text is available at AN APPEAL FOR HUMAN RIGHTS side 2 An Appeal For Human Rights March 9, 1960 In March 1960, students of the...
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The Atlanta Student Movement
The Atlanta Student Movement 1960-1965 side 1 In early February 1960, Morehouse College students Lonnie King, Julian Bond, Joseph Pierce and other students met here at the site of the former...
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First Baptist Church of Alpharetta· c. 1905
In 1903, a group of women who met weekly for prayer and Bible study began collecting offerings. From those collections, the women purchased a sixty by one hundred foot lot and began construction...
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Mansell House • c. 1910
The Mansell House was built by Robert Mansell of South Carolina for his wife, Maude Dorris. It is a Queen Anne-style clapboard farm house built from pine trees located on the site. It has heart...
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