Reuben Cone was a justice in DeKalb County when Decatur consisted of about 12 log cabins. Which means that Judge Reuben Cone was around when they laid the 1st railroad tracks that would create the City of Atlanta. Cone had purchased land lot #78, a land lot that would be significant in Atlanta’s history. It was on Cone’s land that the Zero Mile Marker had been placed, and it was Reuben Cone who leased a portion of lot #78 to John Thrasher. Cone apparently had a fondness for the budding City of Atlanta and wanted to continue to see it grow. To that end, he and a few other Atlanta land owners took steps to ensure the city’s continued growth, as you’ll see on this week’s Stories of Atlanta.
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