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Memorial Drive is a long road that travels from Stone Mountain to Downtown Atlanta in the U.S. state of Georgia. In 2000, a part of Memorial Drive was named " Cynthia McKinney Parkway," [1] but the naming has come under scrutiny since her primary defeat in 2006. [2]
- The Beginning of Memorial Drive, 1860S-1916
- A New Route, 1921-1934
- Avondale Estates Gets Involved, 1924
- A Different Approach to Memorialization, 1925
- Memorial Drive Breaks Ground, 1927
- The Memorial Lives on
Memorial Drive began as East Fair Street, one of the first streets in Atlanta. It was named for the 19th century fairgrounds in Grant Park, which appeared on maps as early as the 1860s. East Fair Street led from the downtown commercial area to residential neighborhoods. Suburban growth in Atlanta and DeKalb County in the late 1890s led to the creat...
The Stone Mountain-Decatur Highway (today’s E. Ponce de Leon Avenue) was completed in October of 1921. This highway was 24 feet wide, which by today’s standards is about a two lane road. Although it was new, this small road could not handle the influx of tourists and so a new “more direct road was needed.”. As tourism continued to boom in the 1920s...
George F. Willis, a well-connected Atlanta businessman and member of the SMMA saw an opportunity in a sleepy community called Ingleside. In 1924, he purchased the 950 acre plot of land would become Avondale Estates and “away from the noise and dirt of the city but close to the heart of things in minutes.” 6This new highway to Stone Mountain would r...
In late 1925, The Touring Bureau of The Atlanta Constitution invited Mr. C. Frank Dunn, managing director of the Lexington [KY] Automobile Club and Blue Grass Tour, to visit local sites and appointed him Kentucky’s publicity director of the Stone Mountain Memorial Coin drive and highway tourism. And in 1926, a new approach to memorialization emerge...
On October 16, 1927, crews broke ground on the “Stone Mountain Memorial Drive.” The groundbreaking was quite the affair, led by the Stone Mountain Memorial Association. This portion of the route was the extension from Avondale Estates to Stone Mountain. Meanwhile, the final and missing link was being planned from Candler Road to Avondale. We can se...
Segments of preexisting roads were simply renamed to stay consistent with the route that led to Stone Mountain. But the evidence is clear, Memorial Drive was named for its destination, Stone Mountain’s Confederate Memorial Sculpture. Obscured by modern development, the view and history have quietly disappeared. But drive a little further east and t...
Jan 19, 2022 · Named for the controversial memorial on the side of Stone Mountain—it’s a straight shot, after all, between the Georgia State Capitol and the South’s most famous rock—Memorial Drive isn’t what it used to be.
Feb 16, 2024 · The bicyclist and pedestrian advocacy group (formerly Atlanta Bicycle Coalition) reports this week that plans for a legitimately safe, two-way protected bike lane are moving forward on Memorial Drive that would link downtown Atlanta with the BeltLine’s Eastside Trail.
Jul 28, 2020 · Moving through her mother’s history in the deeply segregated South and through her own girlhood as a “child of miscegenation” in Mississippi, Trethewey plumbs her sense of dislocation and displacement in the lead-up to the harrowing crime that took place on Memorial Drive in Atlanta in 1985.
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Jan 27, 2014 · Since the early history of the Gate City, Memorial Drive has been a beating artery of Atlanta, pulsating traffic and people, pushing them out to eastern suburbs, and pulling them into industry and downtown office buildings.
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May 16, 2018 · 13 photos: Memorial Drive’s impressive metamorphosis today. Along one of Atlanta’s most rapidly changing corridors, a photographic tour from downtown to Reynoldstown. By Josh Green ...
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