Easton was a farming community located at the crossroads of Plaster Bridge Road (now Piedmont Road) and
Monroe Drive, a location where today, three
intown neighborhoods of Atlanta
:
The city of Atlanta, Georgia is made up of 243 neighborhoods officially defined by the city. These neighborhoods are a mix of traditional neighborhoods, subdivisions, or groups of subdivisions. The neighborhoods are grouped by the city planni ...
come together:
Morningside-Lenox Park
Morningside/Lenox Park is an intown neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia founded in 1923. It is located north of Virginia-Highland, east of Ansley Park and west of Druid Hills. Approximately 3,500 households comprise the neighborhood that includes t ...
,
Piedmont Heights and
Ansley Park
Ansley Park is an intown residential district in Atlanta, Georgia, located just east of Midtown and west of Piedmont Park. When developed in 1905-1908, it was the first Atlanta suburban neighborhood designed for automobiles, featuring wide, win ...
. Farmers took their cotton and corn to Walker's Mill, across from what is now Ansley Mall.
Some milestones in Easton's existence:
Morningside-Lenox Park Association Archive
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* 1876: train started stopping in Easton; from 1879-1931 the Airline Belle
The ''Airline Belle'' or ''Air-line Belle'' was a steam passenger train running between Atlanta and Toccoa, Georgia, on the Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line Railway (later the Southern Railway) between 1879 and 1931. Its route was long with 39 ...
line ran between Atlanta Terminal Station
A train station, railway station, railroad station or depot is a railway facility where trains stop to load or unload passengers, freight or both. It generally consists of at least one platform, one track and a station building providing such ...
and Toccoa, Georgia
Toccoa is a city in far Northeast Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia near the border with South Carolina. It is the county seat of Stephens County, Georgia, Stephens County, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, United States, located about from Athens, Geo ...
* 1888: population reaches 100
* 1904: post office closes
* 1911: development begins in Ansley Park and Virginia Highland
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* 1911: Plaster Bridge Road paved
* 1917: Plaster Bridge Road is renamed Piedmont Road
See also
References
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Former neighborhoods of Atlanta