Druid Hills in Atlanta in DeKalb County, Georgia — The American South (South Atlantic)

Georgia Railway and Power Company Trolley Waiting Station

Photographed by David Seibert, March 20, 2010

1. Georgia Railway and Power Company Trolley Waiting Station Marker

Inscription. The Georgia Railway and Power Company, predecessor of Georgia Power, built this trolley waiting station in 1923. The waiting station served Druid Hills residential development when the streetcar line on Ponce de Leon Avenue was extended from downtown to East Lake Drive. The functional design was a common one shared by the electric company’s waiting stations along city streetcar routes. This structure is the power company’s only original waiting station remaining in Atlanta. Buses replaced the streetcars that once stopped here for passengers, and the tracks were removed.

Erected 2002 by Georgia Historical Society, Georgia Power Company, Druid Hills Garden Club, DeKalb Historical Society, and Fernbank Museum of Natural History. (Marker Number 44-1.)

Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Railroads & Streetcars. In addition, it is included in the Georgia Historical Society series list. A significant historical year for this entry is 1923.

Location. 33° 46.301′ N, 84° 19.266′ W. Marker is in Atlanta, Georgia, in DeKalb County. It is in Druid Hills. It is at the intersection of Ponce de Leon Avenue (U.S. 78) and Ponce de Leon Manor, on the right when traveling west on Ponce de Leon Avenue. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Decatur GA 30030, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in Georgia’s Piedmont.

It is also in the American South

and specifically in the Deep South.

Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region,

North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

one of the original Thirteen Colonies,

one of the Confederate States of America,

and the Antebellum South.

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At least 8 other markers are within 2 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Deepdene Park (approx. 0.2 miles away); a different marker also named Deepdene Park (approx. 0.2 miles away); Lophorhothon atopus (approx. 0.4 miles away); The Swanton House (approx. 0.9 miles away); Mary Gay House (approx. 0.9 miles away); Sweeny's Division Encamped (approx. 1.1 miles away); The Beacon Community (approx. 1.2 miles away); Lynching in America / The Lynching of Porter Turner (approx. 1.2 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Atlanta.

Georgia Railway and Power Company Trolley Waiting Station and Marker image. Click for full size.

Photographed by David Seibert, March 20, 2010

2. Georgia Railway and Power Company Trolley Waiting Station and Marker

Photographed by David Seibert, March 20, 2010

3. Georgia Railway and Power Company Trolley Waiting Station Marker

Looking west on Ponce de Leon Avenue, the route of the old trolley, toward Atlanta

Credits. This page was last revised on July 7, 2025. It was originally submitted on March 24, 2010, by David Seibert of Sandy Springs, Georgia. This page has been viewed 2,077 times since then and 38 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on March 24, 2010, by David Seibert of Sandy Springs, Georgia. • Bill Pfingsten was the editor who published this page.