They walked into the woods and made lives for themselves. That’s a concept 21st-century Atlantans understandably might have trouble wrapping their heads around. But for the 19th century settlers whose names would become a part of our city’s history, it was business as usual. We meet the neighbors on this week’s Stories of Atlanta.

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2 replies on “The Settlers”

  1. My grandmother and grandfather owned the property at I-75 and Moore’s mill old dairy farm late 1880 my mother never left that land 94 yrs she passed

  2. My GGUncle was John James Thrasher (“Cousin John”) ,who built the embankment for the first railroad to come into Thrasherville, later to be called Marthasville, Terminus, a 9 Cousin John)

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