At or near this site stood a tall pine tree used as a single station by the Federal 15th Corps during the Battle of Atlanta, July 22d, 1864.
(In yard of Fire Station No. 12 – Northwest corner DeKalb Ave. and Moreland Ave.)
Site of the first Fulton County Jail – erected 1855; destroyed by the Federal army, Nov. 1865. It was a two story brick structure 45 by 50 ft., surrounded by a high board fence.
Here were imprisoned 21 Andrews Raiders in 1862. On June 18 seven of them were executed at southeast corner of Fair st. and S. Park Ave. On Oct. 16th, eight escaped; the remaining six were sent to Richmond and exchanged.
A second jail occupied this site after the war, until 1897.
(Northeast corner – Fair St. and Fraser St. North line of jail lot on prolongation of Cravens Alley. East line of lot, Kingsley St,
Near this spot, July 22d, 1864, the first Federal shell fired into the city killed a small child.
(Southwest corner – Ivy & Ellis Sts.)
Site of the Augustus F. Hurt House – erroneously called the Howard house. Built 1858. Gen. W. T. Sherman’s headquarters during battle of Atlanta, July 22, 1864. Gen. McPherson’s body was brought to this house shortly after his death on the battlefield in East Atlanta.
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(62) Battlefield of Peachtree Creek – July 20, 1864
On this ridge was posted the left of Brig. Gen. John W. Geary’s Div. of the federal 20th Corps, consisting of the 73d, 109th, and 147th Pennsylvania Rgts. . . the 60th. And 119th New York Rgts. In support of Aleshire’s artillery. The right of the division was across the ravine northward.
After a severe conflict, they repulsed the vigorous assaults of Featherston’s and Scott’s brigades of Loring’s division, Stewart’s Corps. Geary’s division fought at Gettysburg.
(Roadside marker – Collier Road – north side of same – in front of vacant lot just west of the John Mangham place – a white brick house west of Tanyard Branch)
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(61) Tanyard Branch – Battlefield of Peachtree Creek
100 feet down stream stood Collier’s Hill. On the ridge adjacent and astride the branch was posted Con. (afterward President) Benjamin Harrison’s brigade, Ward’s Division, Federal 20th Corpe, which defended this position against the assault of the Confederate forces of Maj. Gen. Loring’s Div. of Stewart’s Corps – July 20, 1864.
(On bridge over Tanyard Branch – Collier Road. Tablet to be affixed to pipe rail of bridge or emplaced on stone at west end of bridge – in any event, it must be placed so the reader of same faces downstream)
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(60) Site of Atlanta’s first Fair Grounds – The road thereto being known as Fair Street. The first fair was held here in 1850 by the South Central Agricultural Society. A Confederate Hospital was located here in 1863-1864.
(Fair Street School – Fair St. S.E.)
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(59) Site of Atlanta’s first City Hall – 1853-1883. Used jointly by the Fulton County Courts. During the occupation of Atlanta by Federal troops, Sept, Nove, 1864, the 2d Mass. Regiment, constituting the Provost Guard, camped in temporary structures in the park. From here, Sept. 6, 1864, went forth the notice to the civilian populace to assemble for registration and eviction from the city.
(Yard of State Capitol)
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(58) Site of Walton Springs, a noted resorts in the 1950s – scene of public gatherings and political rallies. Once the property of lee Walton, for whom Walton St. was named. Spring St. was so named because it led to the spring.
(Northwest corner, Spring and Williams St. (Williams was formerly known as James St.) The spring was in the low ground now used for a parking lot.)
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(57) This six acre tract in the southeast corner of Oakland Cemetery was purchased by the City of Atlanta June 6, 1850, and established as a cemetery. Some years later, additions were made, the present area comprising some 85 acres.
(On the Oakland Cemetery wall, northeast corner Fair Street and Oakland Ave.)
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