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A LOOK BACK This Month in History Ann Taylor Boutwell March 9, 1960: A group of Atlanta University Center students led by Julian Bond and Lonnie King released An Appeal for Human Rights as a full-page advertisement in the city’s daily newspapers. The appeal called for civil rights for African-Americans and outlined the organizing of sit-ins to protest segregation around Atlanta. Known as the Committee on the Appeal for Human Rights, the group began the Atlanta Student Movement and held sit-ins at lunch counters and other locations starting on March 15 that same year. March 25,1932: Changing the community of Buckhead’s name to something more highfalutin again became an issue. Six years earlier, a large group of Buckhead citizens petitioned the Fulton County Commissioner to change the name to “Northwood.” Luckily, the attempts to change the name all failed. Buckhead was created in 1838, when South Carolinian Henry Irby and wife, Georgia native Sardis Walraven, bought and settled on 202-plus acres of land around the present Peachtree, Roswell and West Paces Ferry roads. March 12, 1925: Davison-Paxon merged with R.H. Macy and Company of New York. On March 21, 1927, the new store opened on Peachtree in the handsome $6 million building designed by Starrett and Van Vleck of New York and Hentz, Reid, and Adler of Atlanta. The landmark site next door to the Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel is now known as events and office facility 200 Peachtree. March 13, 1981: Timothy Hill, 13, was the last child killed during what is now known as the Atlanta Child Murders that galvanized the city from 1979 to 1981. Wayne Williams was eventually arrested and convicted in the murder of two adults, but was never convicted in the murder of any of the 23 children. Hill’s death by asphyxiation would be attributed to Williams and the case eventually closed. March 14, 2008: More than 50 trees were toppled and dozens of headstones and obelisks were destroyed when a tornado struck Oakland Cemetery. The tornado damaged buildings as it tore through Downtown Atlanta, including blowing out windows in the Westin Peachtree Plaza and severely damaging the Fulton Cotton Mill Lofts across from the cemetery in Cabbagetown. It was the first tornado to hit the Downtown area since weather record keeping began in the 1880s. March 27,1944: The Atlanta-based Coca-Cola company registered a trademark for the soft drink’s more common name, Coke. Be sure to check out the Coca-Cola Bottle exhibition at the High Museum now through October marking the iconic bottle’s 100th anniversary. March 30,1873: The Atlanta Street Railway, the city’s first streetcar system pulled by mules and horses, opened the Taylor Hill line, which ran to within a block of where the Georgia Dome now sits. ESI Historian Ann Taylor Boutwell is a docent at the Margaret Mitchell House & Museum. Contact her at annboutwell@bellsouth.net. www.RealEstateOfAtlanta.com 1189 S. Ponce de Leon Avenue NE, Atlanta, GA 30306 and 1944 Clairmont Road, Decatur, GA 30033 The above information is believed to be accurate but not warranted. Each office is independently owned and operated. NOBODY SELLS MORE REAL ESTATE THAN RE/MAX.® Morningside $2,500,000 1805 Lenox Road - 3.26 acres Zac Pasmanick 800-290-0079 ID code 5911 OakGrove UNDERCONTRACT 3552 BriarclifFRoad Andy Morris 404.849.0018 Brookhaven $634,900 3165 Lynwood Drive Troy Wile 404.313.7391 West Midtown/Buckhead $239,500 404 Defoors Mill Drive Bryant Gresham 404.372.3568 Ps A 1 i. ■ .. wmc- meTro atlanta I cityside Outstanding Agents, Outstanding Results' Midtown/Piedmont Park $209,200 27513th Street, #505 JohnPetrou 404.444.5323 caD/text City of Decatur $479,000 142 Ridgeland Avenue Jacki and Kristi 404.917.0744 Westover Plantation $199,900 18 Kings Tavern Place NW The Mcjenko Team 404.668.5909 Decatur $720,000 223 Winnona Drive Paula Girvan 404.217.0212 Tom Fulkerson Managing Broker 404.371.4419 North Georgia Mountains $550,000 89 Rolling Hills Court Jacki and Kristi 404.917.0744 1 8 March 2015 | INtOWIl AtlantalNtownPaper.com