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Terminals for Greater Atlanta
The cut below shows that for the convenience of the traveling public and the de
velopment of Greater Atlanta, the new State’s Terminals should be located immedi
ately west of the Forsyth street viaduct and connected with the present Terminal Station.
By the cooperation of the State, the City, the Railroads and the Property Owners,
this can be accomplished.
Forsyth street is the direct North and South street of Atlanta, passing through its
geographical center.
The present Terminal Station was built to accommodate the traveling public for a
number of years to come, but it is already congested and steps should be taken now to
relieve this congestion by connecting the Terminals as above indicated and extending
Spring street.
South to the Present Terminal Plaza and Extending Alabama Street Over the New Terminals to West Atlanta
AT AUCTION
On Thursday, May 9, at noon, will sell
at auction two high-class business lots on
West Hunter street, between Forsyth St.
and Madison Ave. These lots are located
in the very center of the freight and passen
ger terminal district of city, being only a
short half block from the Central freight
terminal, one block from the new million
ddllar Southern freight terminals and only
three or four blocks from the L. & N. and
"W. & A. and A., B. & A. terminals,
and a short block of the passenger station
of the Southern, Central and Atlanta and
West Point railroads. This property is also
In one and a half blocks of Whitehall street.
Edwin P. Ansley
STEVE R. JOHNSTON
AUCTIONEER
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Realty Reminiscenses
Mrs Kellie Peters Black has written
an article for The Journal which she
calls "The Fairy Story of Atlanta Real
Estate," in which she quotes from Rich
ard Feters’ memoirs. Her article fol
lows:
The recent sale of the two buildings
erected at the corner of Peachtree and
Forth avenue for SIOO,OOO has been ac
cepted quite as a matter of fact in ac
cord with the present values of property
on the north side. When we consider
that this eame land was bought in 1856
by Mr. Richard Peters for $1 35 er at
the rate of $5 an acre for .he eake of
the firewood he could make oif the trees
, that grew upon it. doesn't it. seem as
if the dollars grew on Jack the Giant's
1 beanstalks?
! And now a small lot. where the Fres
-1 byterian church stands on Marietta
- street, is to be sold for SIBO,OOO. Os this
section Mr. Peters tells us in his recol
lections of early Atlanta:
• "Colonel tong was offered a half-lnter
-1 est in a 200-acre tract on Marietta street.
. adjoining' the Mitchell tract, for $300."
Ard again Mr Peters said: "J. Edgar
r Thompson, afterwards president of the
great Pennsylvania railroad system,
could see no speculation in town lots in
’ Atlanta, when Mr. Ml*chel! offered four
: acre blocks on Whitehall and Alabama
I . streets for ?I,COO an acre Mr Thompson
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I declined because ho said: Atlanta will
; be a good loaction for one tavern, a
j blacksmith shop, a grocery store and ;
■ nothing else.' ’’
This was in 1844. What a contrast 68
years have made in the town bearing the
name given it by Mr. Thompson? In 1847, |
■ Mr. Peters mentions that he purchased
from Samuel J. Jones his house and
two acres of land at the corner of Mitch
ell and Forsyth streets for the sum of
$1,400. There he resided until 1881,
when he sold the property to Mr. Samuel
Inman for SIB,OOO. We would find It a
difficult matter to put a price upon the
block of stores which cover this ground
today.
The "Arabian Hights'" tales hardly
surpass tn their wonderful imagination
I this true hlstorj of Atlanta's growth. !
ATLANTA SLATED FOR
$2,000,000 POSTOFFICE
New Building Will Be Erected Near Terminal
Station, Says Report
BY RALPH SMITH. '
WASHINGTON, May 7. —Atlanta is marked for a new post
office. building If the estimate of the postofficie department and !
Supervising Architect Taylor of the treasury department are re
garded by congress. $2,000,000 will be provided for the new '
structure, and it will be erected on a site in the vicinity of the
! Terminal station. - ■ |
is. i-'rap t >■ t y j
It will take the co-op
eration of all the public
spirited citizens of Atlan
ta to accomplish the above
results. Please attend
this sale,