On Peachtree Road (Georgia Route 141) at Lanier Drive, on the right when traveling south on Peachtree Road.
Chartered in 1835 by Georgia Presbyterians near Milledgeville, Oglethorpe University was the first denominational college established in the Deep South.
It perished during the Civil War and was briefly revived from 1870 to 1872 in Atlanta. . . . — — Map (db m14291) HM
On Peachtree Road (Georgia Route 141) 0 miles north of Ashford Dunwoody Road, on the right when traveling south.
The large brick residence built in 1857 by Samuel House (1798-1873) was a prominent landmark during military operations by Federal forces on the Atlanta front in July, 1864. Cox’s division of Schofield's 23rd A.C. reached this vicinity July 18; . . . — — Map (db m28587) HM
On Brookhaven Drive NE at East Brookhaven Drive NE, on the left when traveling east on Brookhaven Drive NE.
Historic Brookhaven is the first planned golf club community in Georgia, having been built around the Capital City Country Club between 1910 and 1940. — — Map (db m14356) HM
On DeKalb Avenue, 0.1 miles east of Candler Street, on the right.
July 20, 1864. Maj. Gen. John A. Logan’s A.C. having camped at Decatur, moved toward Atlanta on this rd. M.L. Smith’s (2d) div. was in advance; Woods’ (1st) & Harrow’s (4th), in reserve. At this point, 2.75 mi. from center of Atlanta, Smith’s . . . — — Map (db m9765) HM
On Dekalb Avenue NE at Oakdale Road NE, on the right when traveling west on Dekalb Avenue NE.
July 22, 1864. Gen. McPerson & staff spent the forenoon in conference at Sherman's headquarters & inspecting Army of the Tenn. lines. Noon found them in an oak grove just S. of the R.R. where they were joined at luncheon by Logan & Blair, each with . . . — — Map (db m8892) HM
On DeKalb Avenue at Elmira Place, on the right when traveling west on DeKalb Avenue.
July 22, 1864. After Cheatham’s troops (CS) broke the Federal 15th A.C. line at the R.R. cut and the Hurt house (DeGress Ave.), Mersy’s 16th A.C. brigade was brought up from the battlefield 1 mile S. of the R.R. to assist in restoring it. . . . — — Map (db m9515) HM
On McLendon Avenue NE, 0.1 miles east of Candler Park Drive NE, on the right when traveling west.
July 21, 1864. Sweeny's div., Dodges 16th A.C. (US) was held in reserve some 24 hrs. in a line that crossed the S.W. area of Candler Park.
These troops, of McPherson's Army of the Tenn., had moved from Decatur towards Atlanta the day before and . . . — — Map (db m13538) HM
On Moreland Avenue NE (U.S. 23) at North Avenue NE, on the right when traveling north on Moreland Avenue NE.
On November 15, 1864, during the Civil War, U.S. forces under Gen. William T. Sherman set out from Atlanta on the March to the Sea, a military campaign designed to destroy the Confederacy's ability to wage war and break the will of its people to . . . — — Map (db m102926) HM
On Fayetteville Road, 0.1 miles south of Fleetwood Drive, on the right when traveling north.
July 21, 1864. These troops and Wheeler’s Cav. (CS) were sent from Atlanta on a 15-mile night march to gain the rear of McPherson’s Army of the Tenn. (US) in E. Atlanta. Hardee moved out of the city via McDonough Rd. (Capital Avenue) and here . . . — — Map (db m10234) HM
On Briarcliff Road NE (Georgia Route 42) at Old Briarcliff Road NE, on the right when traveling north on Briarcliff Road NE.
July 19, 1864. In deployment of Federal forces approaching Atlanta, it became necessary to fill a gap between those on Peachtree Rd. at the creek & Schofield’s 23d A.C. on Pea Vine Cr. at the Paden plantation (Emory University). Sherman directed . . . — — Map (db m9764) HM
On Ponce de Leon Avenue (U.S. 78) near Oakdale Road NE, on the right when traveling west.
Alpha Delta Pi Sorority was founded May 15, 1851 at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia, as the first secret society in the world for college women, and thus became the mother of the social sorority system. Wesleyan College was the first educational . . . — — Map (db m28962) HM
On Briarcliff Road (Georgia Route 42) 0.1 miles north of University Drive, on the right when traveling south.
July 20, 1864. A critical factor in the alignment of Federal troops moving on Atlanta, from Peachtree Creek valley, was a wide gap between Peachtree Rd. (the left of Thomas’ forces) & Schofield’s 23d A.C. posted at the intersection of N. Decatur & . . . — — Map (db m9500) HM
On Briarcliff Road (Georgia Route 42) 0.1 miles south of Old Briarcliff Road, on the right when traveling north.
This modern tv station, WAGA-TV stands in land lot 57 of the 18th District of the original Henry, now DeKalb County, near the south fork of Peachtree Creek, was erected in 1966.
In July, 1864 the present Briarcliff Road was the route of the . . . — — Map (db m9766) HM
Near Clifton Road, on the right when traveling east.
Lophorhothon atopus
(Loh-FOUR-ah-thon ay-TOH-pus)
“Crested Nose”
Cretaceous Period (65- 144 million years ago)
Southeastern United States
This scene shows a family of Lophorhothon dinosaurs, as they may have . . . — — Map (db m113593) HM
On Oakdale Road NE at South Ponce De Leon Avenue, on the right when traveling south on Oakdale Road NE.
Lynching in America
Racial terror lynching claimed the lives of thousands of African
Americans between 1877 and 1950. Following the Civil War, white
Southerners sought to uphold an ideology of white supremacy and
used fatal violence . . . — — Map (db m185921) HM
On Haas Avenue, 0.1 miles north of Glenwood Road (Georgia Route 260).
July 22, 1864. The left wing (Giles Smith’s div., 17th A.C.) of McPherson’s Army of the Tenn. (US) occupied an intrenched line on Flat Shoals Rd. between Leggett’s Hill & Glenwood, where it hooked eastward, facing to the south.
Gen. P.R. . . . — — Map (db m9526) HM
On Flat Shoals Avenue at Ormewood Avenue on Flat Shoals Avenue.
July 22, 1864. These troops, with Walker’s and Bate’s divs., Hardee’s A.C. (CS) made a 15-mi. night march from Atlanta to attack the rear of McPherson’s Army of the Tenn. (US) posted on Flat Shoals Road in East Atlanta. Cleburne’s & Maney’s move . . . — — Map (db m9575) HM
On Patterson Avenue at Metropolitan Avenue, on the left when traveling north on Patterson Avenue.
July 22, 1864. Cleburne’s 3 brigades, (CS) after over-running the Federal left (at Glenwood), moved on the rear of its line facing W. on Flat Shoals Rd., at the same time Maney’s div. (CS) attached its front. Beset on both sides Giles Smith’s 17th . . . — — Map (db m9524) HM
On McPherson Avenue at Monument Avenue SE, on the left when traveling west on McPherson Avenue.
The monument in the enclosure was erected by U.S. Army Engineers to mark the site where Maj. Gen. James B. McPherson was killed during the Battle of Atlanta, July 22, 1864.
McPherson rode S. from the Ga. R.R. when he heard firing in Sugar Cr. . . . — — Map (db m8736) HM
Near East Side Avenue at McPherson Avenue. Reported missing.
July 22, 1864. Gen. John Fuller's only brigade -- Morrill's, which was in reserve near Leggett's Hill, was deployed S.E. of here to meet the advance of Walker's div. (CS) up Sugar Cr. valley. While so engaged, Cleburne's 2 brigades -- Govan's & . . . — — Map (db m74719) HM
On Fayetteville Road at Bouldercrest Road, in the median on Fayetteville Road.
July 22, 1864. Hardee’s A.C. (4 divs.), (CS) moving N. to the battlefield, was divided into two columns at this road fork: Clebourne’s and Maney’s took the W. fork leading to E. Atlanta; Walker’s and Bate’s, the E. fork or Fayetteville Rd., as did . . . — — Map (db m170208) HM
On McPherson Avenue at Monument Avenue SE, on the left when traveling west on McPherson Avenue.
In an area bound by Memorial Dr., Clifton, Glenwood & Moreland, was where the major part of the Battle of Atlanta was fought, July 22d. In terms of present landmarks, the battle began at Memorial Dr. & Clifton where Hardee's right wing (CS) was . . . — — Map (db m8737) HM
On Pendleton Street, 0.1 miles east of Brownwood Avenue, on the right when traveling west.
Gen. George Maney, comdg. Cheatham’s old div. of Hardee’s A.C. (CS) at Peachtree Cr., July 20, led the div. July 22 in the Battle of Atlanta. Both Cleburne’s & Maney’s divs. advanced N.W. on Flat Shoals Road to attack the Federal 17th A.C. aligned . . . — — Map (db m10411) HM
On Glenwood Avenue SE (County Route 260) at Wilkinson Drive SE on Glenwood Avenue SE.
The flat area S. was the bed of Terry's mill pond - the impounded waters of Sugar Cr. Tom Terry (1823-1861) operated the grist mill that stood 800 yds. downstream. It was burned by Federal troops July 29, 1864 & was rebuilt and operated some years . . . — — Map (db m8730) HM
On Fayetteville Road, 0.3 miles south of Fay St, on the right when traveling south.
July 22, 1864. Walker’s & Bate’s divs. of Hardee’s A.C. (CS) enroute to the rear of the 17th A.C. (US) in E. Atlanta, detoured here along the W. bank of the creek to keep contact with Cleburne’s & Maney’s divs. (CS) moving upon the Federal left . . . — — Map (db m10230) HM
On Memorial Drive SE (County Route 154) 0.1 miles east of Memorial Terrace SE, on the left when traveling west.
July 20, 1864. Brig. Gen. Walter Q. Gresham's 4th div., leading the advance of the 17th A.C. (US) against Wheeler's Cav. (CS) & forcing it W. to Leggett's Hill, halted here at sundown.
Leggett's 3d div. was brought forward & would have moved . . . — — Map (db m8732) HM
On Memorial Drive SE (County Route 154) 0.1 miles east of Memorial Terrace SE, on the right when traveling west.
July 22, 1864. When Gen. McPherson heard the firing to the S.E. while at luncheon (Whiteford Ave. at R.R.), he mounted his horse & sending away most of his staff on various missions, galloped south to this hill.
Here he observed Dodge's 16th . . . — — Map (db m170211) HM
On Old Briarcliff Road at Old Briarcliff Way, on the right when traveling north on Old Briarcliff Road.
Water-powered sawmill & factory operated in the 1860’s by Samuel A. Durand (1822-1891), later on by Frederick A. Williams (1817-1883), whose name long designated the old road leading S.W. and now known, in sections, as Briarcliff and Williams Mill . . . — — Map (db m9499) HM
This line of breastworks is a remnant of the city fortifications occupied by Confederate forces during the Siege of Atlanta July 22, - August 25, 1864.
The line, which completely encircled the city, aggregated 12 miles of rifle pits and forts . . . — — Map (db m10238) HM
On Key Road, 0.4 miles north of Bouldercrest Rd SE, on the left when traveling north.
July 22, 1864. Hardee’s A.C., (CS) consisting of 4 divisions, enroute N. to the rear of Federal forces in E. Atlanta, halted here at dawn to procure guides for a wilderness march ahead. Hardee, his staff & general officers rode to Wm. Cobb’s house . . . — — Map (db m170207) HM
On Key Road, 0.4 miles north of Bouldercrest Rd SE, on the left when traveling north.
On the E. side of Intrenchment Creek, just above the bridge, stood a grist mill operated by William Cobb, a DeKalb County pioneer. The mill was a notable landmark in the movement of Confederate forces to the field of the Battle of Atlanta, fought . . . — — Map (db m80156) HM
On Clifton Street SE at Memorial Drive SE (Georgia Route 154), on the left when traveling south on Clifton Street SE.
July 22, 1864. The attack by Walker's & Bate's divs. (Hardee's A.C.) (C.S) struck the two brigades Mersy's & Rices's, of Sweeny's 16th A.C. div. (U.S.) enroute to support the 17th in E. Atlanta.
Walker's troops came up Sugar Cr. valley from the . . . — — Map (db m170210) HM
On Memorial Drive SE (County Route 154) 0.2 miles east of Wilkinson Drive SE, on the right when traveling east. Reported missing.
July 22, 1864. Gen. Bate's div., Hardee's A.C. (CS) was deployed on the rt. of Walker's div. when they advanced N. from Terry's Mill pond. Being on the extreme rt. of the corps, Bate's troops moved up the east side of Sugar Cr., valley and swung . . . — — Map (db m80157) HM
On Glenwood Avenue (Georgia Route 260) at Interstate 20, on the right when traveling east on Glenwood Avenue.
July 22, 1864. Bate’s, together with Walker’s div., Hardee’s A.C., (CS) having moved up Sugar Cr. valley W. of Terry’s mill pond, were deployed in this area for a surprise attack on Federal troops posted N.W. of here on Flat Shoals Rd.
While . . . — — Map (db m18822) HM
On Clay Street SE at Memorial Drive SE (Georgia Route 154), on the right when traveling south on Clay Street SE.
July 22, 1864. Sweeny's 2nd. div., Dodge's 16th A.C. (US), having been held in reserve N. of the Ga. R.R. (Candler Park), was ordered to support the left wing of Blair's 17th Corps in East Atlanta. Marching via Clay Rd., Sweeny's column halted here . . . — — Map (db m8889) HM
On Memorial Drive SE (County Route 154) at Dixie St. SE on Memorial Drive SE.
July 22, 1864. Col. August Mersy's brigade of Sweeny's div., 16th A.C. (US) was aligned on the rt. of the div. when it went into action to meet the assault of Walker's div. (CS) advancing up Sugar Creek valley (from Glenwood Ave.). The left of . . . — — Map (db m8731) HM
On Clay Street NE at Hosea L. Williams Drive NE, on the left when traveling south on Clay Street NE.
July 22, 1864. Sweeny's 16th A.C. div., ordered to support the left of the Federal line in E. Atlanta, was shifted from its camp of the previous night, N. of the Georgia Railroad. It marched S. on the Clay Road (now Clay St).
These troops had . . . — — Map (db m8735) HM
On Hosea L WIlliams Dr SE at Clay St NE, on the left when traveling west on Hosea L WIlliams Dr SE.
McPherson's Army of the Tenn. (US) seized Decatur July 19, 1864 & on the 20th moved towards Atlanta in two columns - the 15th & 16th A.C. via the Ga. R.R., the 17th by roads S. of it where Wheeler's Cav.,(CS) guarding the right of Atlanta's outer . . . — — Map (db m8894) HM
On Ashford-Dunwoody Road at Harts Mill Road NE, on the right when traveling south on Ashford-Dunwoody Road.
July 17, 1864. The march of the corps S. from the road-fork at Providence Church (Dunwoody) was opposed by Col. Geo. G. Dibrell's brigade of Wheeler's cav. [CS]. After a sharp skirmish, the 9th Illinois Mounted Infantry drove Dibrell across the . . . — — Map (db m14307) HM
On "Ivy Street" drive on Marist Campus, 0.1 miles west of Ashford-Dunwoody Road, on the right when traveling west.
On June 3, 2005, the central road of this campus was formally named “Ivy Street,” in honor of the hallowed tradition associated with the original Marist
campus on Ivy Street in downtown Atlanta.
With 32 boys and five . . . — — Map (db m14203) HM
On Johnson Ferry Road NE at Donaldson Drive NE, on the left when traveling east on Johnson Ferry Road NE.
Ante-bellum crossroads settlement & Post Office; James Reeve (1792 - 1852) Post Master & merchant. Prior to 1864 the Post Office was removed to a point between Chamblee & Doraville where, name unchanged, it was known as Cross Keys Post Office. To . . . — — Map (db m14052) HM
On Moreland Avenue at Interstate 20, on the right when traveling south on Moreland Avenue.
July 22, 1864. Blair’s 17th A.C., McPherson’s Army of the Tenn. (US) was aligned S. of Logan’s 15th astride the Ga. R.R. Leggett’s div. of the 17th held the line from Logan’s left, to & including the hill. An extension S.E. on Flat Shoals Rd. to . . . — — Map (db m9521) HM
On Briarwood, 0.2 miles south of Buford Highway (Georgia Route 13), on the left when traveling south.
About 0.3 mile upstream N. Fork Peachtree Cr., is the site of a mill owned by Wm. Johnston (1789-1855), -a landmark of Federal military operations in the Summer of 1864. Schofield’s 23d A.C., having crossed the Chattahoochee River at Isom’s Ferry . . . — — Map (db m9438) HM
On Henderson Mill Road, 0.1 miles south of Midvale Road, on the right when traveling north.
Some 300 ft N.W. stood the ante and post bellum grist mill owned and operated by Greenville Henderson (1792-1869) and his son Rufus (1823-1872). The flat, left and rt. of this road was the mill pond area; the mill was demolished, 1911.
During . . . — — Map (db m29122) HM
On Glenwood Avenue (Georgia Route 260) at Wilkenson Dr SE, on the right when traveling west on Glenwood Avenue.
July 22, 1864. Maj. Gen. W.H.T. Walker, commanding a div. of Hardee's A.C., (CS) while directing his troops toward the battlefield, reached a close proximity to this spot at noon where, pausing to reconnoiter the area, he was shot from his horse by . . . — — Map (db m170224) HM
On Shallowford Road NE at Briarcliff Road NE, on the right on Shallowford Road NE.
July 19th, 1864. Blair's 17th A.C. followed by Dodge's 16th (US), having camped near Blake's Mill, 6 mi. N. on the old Shallow Ford Rd. the night before, moved S. to this point where their lines of march diverged.
Dodge's troops continued S. on . . . — — Map (db m8759) HM
On Shallowford Road, 0.1 miles south of Interstate 85, on the right when traveling south.
N. Fork Peachtree Creek. West of the road was the ante-bellum structure of a mill owned and operated by John Blake (1798-1854).
July 18, 1864. Blair’s 17th A. C. of McPherson’s Army of the Tennessee (US Flag), enroute from Roswell to Decatur, . . . — — Map (db m61961) HM
On Briarcliff Road NE (Georgia Route 42) 0.1 miles south of LaVista Road (Georgia Route 236), on the right when traveling south.
July 19, 1864. When it became apparent that a wide gap existed in Federal troop deployment along Peachtree Cr. Between Peachtree Rd. & this, the old Williams Mill Rd., two divs. of Howard’s 4th A.C. were sent S.E. from Buckhead to this vicinity to . . . — — Map (db m9448) HM
On South Avondale Plaza north of the intersection of Berkeley and Kensington Roads, on the left when traveling south.
Gutzon Borglum, the world famous sculptor of Mt. Rushmore and the first man to work on the Confederate Memorial carving on Stone Mountain, lived in this house from 1924 to 1925. He had begun the Stone Mountain carving in 1923 with his plan that . . . — — Map (db m9592) HM
On East College Avenue (U.S. 278) at Hillmont Avenue, on the right when traveling east on East College Avenue.
At this location, on Labor Day 1955, Avondale Estates neighbors Joe Rogers, Sr., and Tom Forkner founded the first Waffle House restaurant. The name was inspired by the most popular item on the original menu. The restaurant's focus on fast-food . . . — — Map (db m59307) HM
On Peachtree Road (Georgia Route 141) 0.1 miles North Druid Hills Road, on the right when traveling north.
The house on adjacent knoll, built 1831, by Solomon Goodwin (circa 1780-1850), oldest extant house in DeKalb County, was a landmark of Federal military operation in these environs during the summer of 1864. July 18. Hascall’s div., 23d A.C. having . . . — — Map (db m28588) HM
On Airport Drive, 0.6 miles east of Clairmont Road (Georgia Route 155), on the right.
Constructed during America's rush to mobilize for World War I, Camp Gordon was one of 16 temporary training camps, the largest in the southern states and
the focus of Atlanta's wartime patriotic spirit. It served as birthplace and training ground . . . — — Map (db m14570) HM
On Airport Drive at Clairmont Road (Georgia Route 155), on the right on Airport Drive.
Anticipating America's involvement in a second world war, the government returned to the site of Camp Gordon in October 1940 and over the next seven
months constructed a 400-acre Naval Reserve Aviation Base at the DeKalb County Airport. . . . — — Map (db m14571) HM
On Chamblee Tucker Road at Shallowford Road, on the right when traveling east on Chamblee Tucker Road.
July 18, 1864. The marching columns of the Army of the Tenn. (US), having diverged 5.5 mi. N.W., rejoined here when Dodge's 16th A.C. moved E. from Old Cross Keys to Rainey's. Blair's 17th A.C. moved 1.75 mi. S. on old Shallow Ford rd. & camped at . . . — — Map (db m9417) HM
On Moreland Avenue (U.S. 23) at Thurman Road (Georgia Route 160), on the right when traveling south on Moreland Avenue.
Hardee’s command, [CS] defeated at Jonesboro, Aug. 31, 1864, was depleted by the withdrawal of S.D. Lee’s A.C. before results of the battle were known in Atlanta. Hood, anticipating a Federal attack at East Point, ordered Lee toward Atlanta. He left . . . — — Map (db m44053) HM
On Clairmont Road (Georgia Route 155) 0.5 miles north of N. Decatur Road, on the right when traveling south.
West of this point 75ft., was the ante-bellum residence of James Oliver Powell (1826-1873), Sherman's headquarters, July 19, 1864.
Sherman traveled with Schofield's 23d A.C. from the Chattahoochee River as Power's Fy. July 17 & arrived here July . . . — — Map (db m13996) HM
On Ponce de Leon Ave. at Clairemont Ave, on the left when traveling west on Ponce de Leon Ave..
DeKalb County, created by Act of General Assembly Dec. 9, 1822 and including Fulton County until 1853, was named for Baron Johann DeKalb, a native German who fought gallantly for American freedom. Wounded and captured at the Battle of Camden, . . . — — Map (db m8753) HM
Near East Court Square south of East Ponce de Leon Avenue.
In 1908, this monument was erected at the DeKalb County
Courthouse to glorify the "lost cause" of the Confederacy and the
Confederate soldiers who fought for it. It was privately funded by
the C. A. Evans Camp of Confederate Veterans and the . . . — — Map (db m142597) HM
On East Court Square, 0.1 miles south of Ponce de Leon Avenue, on the right when traveling south.
During the
Battle of Decatur July 22nd 1864
there was hot fighting in and
around the old courthouse which
stood on this square.
Wheeler's Cavalry made a
gallant charge here and captured
a battery of Federal artillery
with . . . — — Map (db m8756) HM
Near Ponce de Leon Avenue, 0.1 miles south of Clairemont Avenue, on the left when traveling west.
On July 20, 1864, Union forces under Maj. Gen. W.T. Sherman, USA, were closing in on Atlanta. Hq. 2nd Cavlary Division (US), Brg. Gen Kenner Garrard, was in Decatur. His three brigades were scattered from Decatur to Roswell, guarding bridges over . . . — — Map (db m8754) HM
Near Ponce de Leon Avenue at Clairemont Avenue (Georgia Route 155).
From the Houston Mill built in 1873
Owned by Maj. W.J. Houston
Purchased from Dr. Chapmon Powell
Millstone removed in 1974
Mill site destroyed in 1983
Donated by Joseph Augustine Sams Bond
Moved to Old Courthouse Grounds October 2001 by . . . — — Map (db m31589) HM
Near East Court Square south of East Ponce de Leon Avenue.
The trails shown on this map of Dekalb County were a part of the great trade routes of the Indians, the Cherokees to the North and the Creeks to the South. These trails became the wagon roads of the white man. Many of them now mark the great . . . — — Map (db m142603) HM
On North McDonough Street north of Trinity Place, on the right when traveling south.
Lynching in America
Following the Civil War, violent resistance to rights for African Americans, a need for heap labor, and an ideology of white supremacy led to fatal violence against Black women, men, and children. Thousands of Black . . . — — Map (db m245402) HM
Near West Court Square south of West Ponce de Leon Avenue.
Five DeKalb County courthouses have been
erected here in the center of Decatur since 1823.
The third courthouse structure, between 1847
and 1898, was where DeKalb County's two
anti-secession delegates were selected to attend
Georgia's secession . . . — — Map (db m142543) HM
On Ponce de Leon Ave at Clairemont Ave, on the left when traveling west on Ponce de Leon Ave.
This steatite boulder was found on the site of a prehistoric quarry along Soapstone Ridge 8 miles south of Decatur. It shows the methods of Indians in making stone bowls, with the first girdling of the stone to remove workable cores. It is . . . — — Map (db m8752) HM
On West Trinity Place just west of Electric Avenue, on the right when traveling east.
The Beacon Community was the center of Decatur’s African American community until its demolition by the Urban Renewal programs of the mid-1960s. Bounded by N. McDonough Street on the east, W. Trinity Place on the north, Water Street on the west and . . . — — Map (db m29260) HM
On North McDonough Street at West Trinity Place, on the right when traveling south on North McDonough Street.
[First panel]
Illegally sentenced in a DeKalb County court to four months of hard labor on a false traffic charge, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. put systemic injustice on trial in the court of public opinion.
[Second panel]
How Dr. . . . — — Map (db m197667) HM
On McDonough Street at Trinity Place, on the right when traveling south on McDonough Street.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was sentenced here, at the site of the former DeKalb
Building, on October 25, 1960, to four months of hard labor for protesting segregation
with the Atlanta Student Movement at a Rich's Department Store dining room. . . . — — Map (db m173323) HM
On East Ponce de Leon Avenue, 0.1 miles east of Clairemont Avenue, on the right when traveling east.
In July, 1864, Maj. Gen W.T. Sherman's army (US) closed in on Atlanta. Finding its fortifications "too strong to assault and too extensive to invest," he sought to force its fall by sending Maj. Gen. Geo. Stoneman, with three brigades (2112 men and . . . — — Map (db m8723) HM
On East Ponce de Leon Avenue, 0.1 miles east of Clairemont Avenue, on the right when traveling east.
July 22, 1864. Coincident with Hardee's night march to attack Federal forces in E. Atlanta, Wheeler's cavalry (CS) was sent to seize McPherson's wagon trains parked N. of the Decatur public square, guarded by Sprague's 16th A.C. brigade & three . . . — — Map (db m8887) HM
On Ponce de Leon Avenue (U.S. 78) at Ponce de Leon Manor, on the right when traveling west on Ponce de Leon Avenue.
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 . . . — — Map (db m29074) HM
On Clifton Road NE, 0.1 miles north of North Decatur Road, on the left when traveling north.
The Federal 23d A.C., Army of the Ohio, reached this vicinity via Old Shallow Ford Rd. (Clairmont) & N. Decatur Rd., evening of July 19, 1864. This was the N.E. sector of Sherman’s approach to Atlanta. Cox’s (3d) div. bivouacked E. of Pea Vine Cr. . . . — — Map (db m9922) HM
On Starvine Way, 0.3 miles west of Clairmont Road (U.S. 23), on the right when traveling west.
The Hardman Family Cemetery is one of the oldest landmarks in DeKalb County and among the last vestiges of its early settlement. Both white settlers and enslaved African Americans were buried here. Nearby ran the Shallowford Indian Trail, a trade . . . — — Map (db m142533) HM
On North Decatur Road, 0.2 miles west of Clairmont Road, on the right when traveling east.
This ancient trail led west to the Indian village of Standing Peachtree. It joined the Shallowford Trail near this spot linking it with trade routes to Stone Mountain. Later becoming a road it was among the first authorized when DeKalb County was . . . — — Map (db m9923) HM
On Commerce Drive (Georgia Route 155) 0.5 miles north of East Ponce De Leon Avenue, on the right when traveling north.
The oldest known publicly owned burial ground in metro Atlanta, the Decatur Cemetery is believed to predate the city’s 1823 incorporation. The first written record is an 1832 act of legislature providing “Commissioners for the Decatur Burial . . . — — Map (db m9685) HM
On Commerce Drive (Route 155) 0.1 miles east of North Candler Street, on the right when traveling west.
This cemetery was the scene of an engagement between 8th Confederate Cavalry Col. J. S. Prather commanding and a large force of Federal troops. The latter were repulsed and 225 prisoners taken. — — Map (db m29168) HM
On West Trinity Place, 0.1 miles east of West Ponce De Leon Avenue, on the right when traveling east.
Author, poet, historian and Confederate heroine - Mary Ann Harris Gay (1828-1918) lived in this house from 1850 to 1914. She is best known for her Life in Dixie During the War which describes the Union Siege of Atlanta and the tribulations . . . — — Map (db m9427) HM
On West Trinity Place, 0.1 miles east of West Ponce De Leon Avenue, on the right when traveling east.
Ante-bellum residence of Benjamin F. Swanton; once the property of Ammi Williams, a DeKalb County pioneer. Built prior to 1842.
In 1864 the Swanton family was in residence here when the Federal Army of the Tennessee occupied Decatur. This force . . . — — Map (db m9364) HM
On Clarimont Road (Georgia Route 155) 0.2 miles south of North Decatur Road, on the right when traveling south.
About 1826, Dr. Chapmon Powell erected a log cabin beside the Shallowford Trail near this site. His Indian patients called it the “Medicine House.” His cabin had been relocated onto this site by 1863 when Powell’s son-in-law, Washington Jackson . . . — — Map (db m9361) HM
On North Druid Hills Road (Georgia Route 42) at Clairmont Road (Georgia Route 155), on the left when traveling east on North Druid Hills Road. Reported missing.
July 19, 1864. Dodge's 16th A.C., having camped on N. Fork Peachtree Cr., moved S. on old Shallowford Rd. to this point where it joined Schofield's 23d, which had marched S.E. from Goodwin's Crossing (Brookhaven), along roads now designated . . . — — Map (db m9362) HM
On Briarcliff Road at Henderson Mill Road, on the right when traveling south on Briarcliff Road.
July 19, 1864. Logan's troops, in "light fighting order" left camp at Henderson's mill (0.8 mile N.E.), at 5 A.M. & marched to Decatur. They were joined at this point by Blair's corps which had camped at Blake's Mill, 2 miles west.
Both corps, . . . — — Map (db m8761) HM
On Henderson Mill Road NE at Briarcliff Road NE, on the left on Henderson Mill Road NE.
McPherson's Army of the Tenn. (US), consisting of the 15th, 16th, & 17th corps, having crossed the river at Roswell, made a wide swing S.E. to cut the Georgia R.R. at & E. of Decatur.
Logan's 15th A.C. was the extreme left; posted at Browning . . . — — Map (db m8886) HM
On Avery Street south of East College Avenue (Georgia Route 10/155), on the left when traveling south.
120 Avery Street
was placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
July 25, 1985
by the United States
Department of the Interior — — Map (db m197673) HM
On Buford Highway (U.S. 23) at English Oak Drive, on the right when traveling north on Buford Highway.
J. W. Buchanan’s residence, which stood on the Old Hightower Trail, where Peachtree Road crosses, was a landmark of Federal troop movements in July, 1864.
July 17, Garrard’s cav., operating on the left of McPherson’s Army of the Tenn., . . . — — Map (db m40476) HM
On Mount Vernon Road at Jett Ferry Road, on the right when traveling east on Mount Vernon Road.
The Hightower (English version of “Etowah”) Indian trail passed here in its route from East Georgia to the mountains of North Georgia. To the northwest, it crossed a ford on the Chattahoochee River at Roswell. This trade and travel path . . . — — Map (db m50372) HM
On North Shallowford Road, 0.1 miles north of Cotillion, on the left when traveling south.
July 17, 1864. Dodge's 16th A.C., together with Logan's 15th & Blair's 17th (US), having left Roswell by Shallow Ford Rd. enroute to Decatur, diverged from the column at the road - fork 2.5 mi. N.W. & moved towards Old Cross Keys. Logan & Blair came . . . — — Map (db m53100) HM
On Chamblee Dunwoody Road at Nandina Lane, on the right when traveling south on Chamblee Dunwoody Road.
July 17, 1864. At this road-fork (near old Providence Church), the 16th A.C. of the Army of the Tenn. (US), enroute from Roswell to Decatur, moved by the west fork towards Nancy's Creek where it camped near old Cross Keys.
The 15th A.C., . . . — — Map (db m9414) HM
On Max Cleland Boulevard south of Bond Street, on the right when traveling south. Reported missing.
Lynching in America
Following the Civil War, violent resistance to rights for African
Americans, a need for cheap labor, and an ideology of white supremacy
led to fatal violence against Black women, men, and children.
Thousands of Black . . . — — Map (db m242055) HM
On Covington Highway (U.S. 278) at Cove Lake Road, on the right when traveling east on Covington Highway.
Birthplace of Rebecca Ann Latimer (1835-1930), daughter of Chas. and Eleanor (Swift) Latimer, pioneer settles at this point on the Decatur-Covington road. Married in 1853 to Dr. William H. Felton, later Member of Congress and a trustee of the . . . — — Map (db m33831) HM
On Covington Highway (U.S. 278) 0.1 miles east of Panola Road, on the right when traveling east.
On Nov. 15, 1864, after destroying Atlanta and cutting his communications with the North, Maj. Gen. W.T. Sherman, USA, began his destructive campaign for Savannah – the March to the Sea. He divided his army (US) into two wings. The Right Wing . . . — — Map (db m9936) HM
On Norris Lake Road at Norris Lake Drive, on the right when traveling south on Norris Lake Road.
On Nov. 15, 1864, after destroying Atlanta and cutting his communications with the. North, Maj. Gen. W. T. Sherman, USA, began his destructive campaign for Savannah -- the March to the Sea. He divided his army [USA] into two wings. The Right wing . . . — — Map (db m33818) HM
Near John B Gordon Drive, 0.1 miles east of Jefferson Davis Drive, on the right when traveling east.
Dr. Chapmon Powell, pioneer Dekalb County physician, built this log cabin on the shallow ford Indian Trail near the town of Decatur in 1826. He often gave medical aid to Cherokee Indians still roaming the country between the shallow ford on the . . . — — Map (db m208568) HM
Near John B Gordon Drive, 0.1 miles east of Jefferson Davis Drive, on the right when traveling east.
This late Federal Style home has seven rooms on two levels and comfortably housed the Allens, a family of four. It was originally located near the town of Kingston, a railroad boom town in the northwest part of the state. The upper level and the . . . — — Map (db m208334) HM
"Covered bridges" or "lattice bridges" were
common throughout the Eastern U.S, during the
nineteenth century. This bridge formerly
spanned the North Fork of the Oconee River in
the city of Athens, Ga.. connecting College
Avenue and Hobson . . . — — Map (db m11054) HM
Near John B Gordon Drive, 0.1 miles east of Jefferson Davis Drive, on the right when traveling east.
Around 1850, Charles Milton Davis moved with his extended family from Aiken, South Carolina to create the new town of Dickey in the southwest part of Georgia near the present city of Albany.
Family lore states that the lavish manor home was . . . — — Map (db m208654) HM
Near John B Gordon Drive, 0.1 miles east of Jefferson Davis Drive, on the right when traveling east.
Around 1826, when John Quincy Adams was president, Dr. Chapmon Powell built this one room log cabin near today's intersection of Clairmont Avenue and North Decatur Road. A prominent physician, he was one of the earliest residents to settle in the . . . — — Map (db m208525) HM
On James B Rivers Memorial Drive at Silver Hill Road on James B Rivers Memorial Drive.
July 18, 1864. Garrard’s cav. div. & Lightburn’s 15th A.C. (US) brigade moved from Browning’s Court House (Tucker), to this vicinity & destroyed 2 miles of Ga. R.R. track, several culverts, & the water tank.
July 19. Long’s & Miller’s brigades, . . . — — Map (db m9933) HM
On Stone Mountain Freeway (U.S. 78) 0.2 miles west of West Park Place Boulevard, on the right when traveling west.
Hightower (Etowah) Trail, one of the best marked Indian Trails in Georgia, was a much used crossover between two of the noted Trading Paths radiating from Augusta. Recognized as a former boundary between Cherokee and Creek lands, a part of it . . . — — Map (db m33433) HM
Near John B Gordon Drive, 0.1 miles east of Jefferson Davis Drive, on the right when traveling east.
From 1875 until 1915 children in the Klondike Community in southern DeKalb County attended Powell Academy on S. Goddard Rd. The one room school was capable of housing 25-30 students. It got its name from George Washington Powell, pioneer resident . . . — — Map (db m208680) HM
Near John B Gordon Drive, 0.1 miles east of Jefferson Davis Drive, on the right when traveling east.
The Powell Academy was built around 1875, when Ulysses S. Grant was president. It was one of about 100 small community schools located in DeKalb County and served students in the Klondike Community until they reached Grade 6. The money for these . . . — — Map (db m208677) HM
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