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A Rocky Start
They came seeking a new life in a new town. As a newlywed couple, they left a comfortable home in Marietta and moved to Terminus to make their fortune. Little did they know that just by doing what every newlywed couple does, they would make history. Willis and Sarah. Carlisle had followed the advice of […]
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40 views of 191 Peachtree Street – various dates
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Affordable Housing
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 […]
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Groundhog Day Jugglers Festival – Yaarab Temple – Ponce de Leon Ave – 2025 back to 2016
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Atlanta’s First Community
He was everybody’s cousin. Nobody’s fool. And the richest 21-year-old in town. John Thrasher had been awarded a $25,000 contract to build a railroad embankment. Over the coming months, he would create a clearing in the forest, build several one-room, dirt-floor cabins for labor that he would soon hire and open up a general store […]
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MLK Day Parade – DeKalb NAACP – Stonecrest – January 18, 2025
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Early Adopters
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. While the immediate area chosen for the termination point of the […]
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M. L. King, Jr. around Atlanta – various locations and dates
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Remember Ukraine – Atlanta Rallies – various dates/locations
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Why Atlanta?
During the early days of America’s founding, having access to water was one of the primary prerequisites in choosing a location for a community. It’s not a difficult concept to understand. In addition to the obvious health benefits, having access to water provided a source of power for industry and, for many, water equaled mobility, […]
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James Earl “Jimmy” Carter – Rest in Peace
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Three looks at Christmas past – Children’s Parade, Virginia Highland Parade, Hometown Parade
Spreading holiday cheer along Peachtree Street at the 2019 Children’s Christmas Parade. Look back at the fun and festivities of the 2022 Virginia Highland Winterfest Parade. A small town Christmas in Summerville, GA
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An Atlanta Alamo Connection
It is a safe bet to say that there were no Atlantans who fought at the Battle of the Alamo. Safe because the battle was over and done with a year before the terminus stake was ever driven into the ground. And yet…there is a connection between Atlanta and the Alamo. Not surprisingly, the connection […]
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Peachtree Center and One Peachtree – Overview of Portman projects
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The Tall Wagging Tale
Sounds good…you be the judge. That’s the deal we’re offering this week, as we tell the tale of a well-known Atlantan who decided to try his hand at event promotion. It’s a tale that has all the makings of a “top notch” Story. Sky-high, death-defying action, a high stakes bet, a puppy dog in danger, […]
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Riding the Rails – Views of MARTA heavy rail and reflections on the Streetcar – various dates
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Connecting the Dots
This week we play a game of “connect the dots” as we trace the relationship of two famous Georgians who each played a role in Atlanta’s young but stellar past. We start with the birth of Crawford Long in 1815 and take a brief look at why we all owe him a major debt of […]
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Catch the bus – Historic to Electric – various years
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Atlanta’s Hoo-Hoos
As the story goes, a journalist in the timber industry named Johnson was describing a most peculiar tuft of hair, greased and twisted to a point atop the otherwise bald head of a man named McCarer. Using a phrase of his own concoction to describe Mr. McCarer’s signature coiffure, Mr. Johnson pronounced it to be […]
