Richard Copeland Todd (1792–1852) was an American pioneer from Chester, South Carolina.
In 1822 he and his wife Martha settled in what is now the
Virginia Highland neighborhood of
Atlanta
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, buying their farm from William Zachary, who had bought it in 1812. Their descendants resided on the original Todd homestead site at 816 Greenwood Avenue until the 1960s. The Todds were buried nearby, but their graves were relocated to an actual cemetery in the 1950s. A large stone "log" approximately long and bearing the inscriptions "Martha Todd 1802–1896" and "Richard Todd 1792–1853" (it was marked with the incorrect death year) was left behind because it was too heavy to move at the time.
Todd's older sister Sarah (d. 1865) was married to
Hardy Ivy
Hardy Ivy (1779–1842) is said to be the first person of European descent to permanently settle in what is now the city of Atlanta, Georgia.
Settlement
By 1821 the last of the Native Americans who held claim to the land east of the Chattahooche ...
, the first European-American settler within the original Atlanta city limits. The road between their two farms was known as Todd Road, a portion of which still exists in Virginia Highland.
References
History of Virginia Highland, Virginia Highland Civic AssociationLinda Merrill, "History of Virginia Highland, Part I", published in the ''Virginia-Highland Voice'', Winter 2009
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History of Atlanta