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The Cabbagetown Story Starts at the Mill, Not the Murals I keep coming back to this Atlanta History Center photograph of the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills, taken from Oakland Cemetery. The factory is in the background, but the foreground is what changes the way...
Stone Mountain Is Not Just a Monument Story Stone Mountain’s carving is often treated as a fixed object in the landscape, as if the story begins and ends with what is visible from the highway. It doesn’t. The arguments over its origins, purpose, financing, an...
Atlanta’s First Public Library Had More Than Books on Its Shelves A short Fulton County Library System video tells the story of Atlanta’s Carnegie Library, librarian Anne Wallace, and Margaret Mitchell’s connection to the place. The useful part is not the cel...
Atlanta, Before the Glass Towers Took Over the Sentence Five minutes of Atlanta streetscapes around 1970, and suddenly every “development” conversation feels less abstract. This archival film moves past houses, buses, construction sites, storefronts, politica...
When a Neighborhood Archive Stays Alive Washington Park’s archive is a useful reminder that local history is not finished once the photographs are scanned and the folders are labeled. Residents are working with the University of Georgia’s Hargrett Library to...
The Atlanta History Center’s “Neighborhoods” object is a good reminder that city history lives in ordinary places, including a Grant Park house-number sign and the resident groups that help shape how neighborhoods change. I’m saving this one for the next time...