Atlanta has always been a city of reinvention. Long before it rebuilt itself after the Civil War, promoted itself as the “Gate City of the South,” or transformed its skyline for the twentieth century, the young settlement was already trying on new identities. In fewer than ten years, the place … [Read more...]
A Namesake in Question
In the winter of 1853, as Georgia lawmakers assembled in Milledgeville, a bill was introduced that would create a new county from a portion of sprawling DeKalb County. On December 7, on the bill’s second reading and during deliberations in the state Senate, Senator John Collier of DeKalb amended the … [Read more...]
A Wedding at Mount Gilead Camp Ground
There is a bit of hallowed ground in the Ben Hill section of Atlanta along Austin Road, S.W. though many have no idea. For over 150 years the property was home to the only camp ground meeting site in Atlanta – Mount Gilead Camp Ground. Only a few acres of the original two hundred plus acres … [Read more...]
Harper’s Weekly Profiles Atlanta in 1879, Part Two
A few days ago, I posted part one of this article you can find here. In this article I’m providing the full text of an article that appeared in the December 1879 issue of Harper’s New Monthly Magazine and was written by Ernest Ingersoll, a writer with Harper’s and Frank H. Taylor, “an … [Read more...]
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