Will Butler

Luckie Street in downtown Atlanta is commonly thought to be named after Solomon Luckie. Luckie was one of Atlanta’s first Black entrepreneurs and was tragically killed by shrapnel during the Civil War. Learn more about Luckie in our Atlanta Streets series.

Find out if there are Druids in Druid Hills or what Ponce de Leon Avenue has to do with the Spanish explorer in the latest installment in our Atlanta Streets series that takes a look at street names in Atlanta with mystical and curious origins.

Seventy-one. That’s a current count on how many streets there are in Atlanta that bear the name, “Peachtree.” This is the first in a series of blog posts exploring the history behind popular Atlanta street names.

The rebellion which reverberated from New York City down to Atlanta and the subsequent five days of protests jumpstarted the gay rights movement.

Though the story of the Atlanta Crackers is well-known, for years, the story of the Atlanta Black Crackers was largely untold.