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  Cabbagetown District--Atlanta: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
The Cabbagetown District, east of downtown Atlanta, originally consisted of the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill and the housing built for the factory workers.
Because this area of Atlanta was sparsely populated in the late 19th century, the owners of the mill company decided to erect housing for its employees.
The Cabbagetown District is bounded by Oakland Cemetery, Boulevard and Pearl sts., Memorial Dr., and the Georgia Railroad tracks.
www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/atlanta/cab.htm   (442 words)

  
 sapphireblue: asynchronous exhibitionism
Cabbagetown is rich with history, but not the kind to be painted over and resold at a monster profit by adventurous yuppies.
The only people moving to Cabbagetown and fixing it up are true urbanites, the sort who choose their paint colors based on what strikes them as groovy at the moment, not on what will resell well---the sort who don't mind the occasional drunken bum shambling down Boulevard talking to himself.
Atlanta's chosen symbol is that of the phoenix, the mythical bird rising cyclically, triumphant, from the ashes of its own funeral pyre, a reference to Atlanta's rebirth after Sherman's burning of the city in 1864.
www.sapphireblue.com /ae/old_november_1998.phtml?pageid=18   (1142 words)

  
 CNN.com - arts & style - Atlanta photographer probes mill community's soul - August 16, 2000
ATLANTA (CNN) -- Look into the eyes of the faces Oraien Catledge photographed for 20 years and you'll see the hardship and pride of generations.
An exhibition of 44 fl-and-white portraits, "In the Mill's Shadow: Cabbagetown Photographs by Oraien Catledge" is on display at the Atlanta History Center until January 7.
Cabbagetown native Joyce Brookshire, a neighborhood advocate and folk singer whose mother worked in the mill, says only about 75 households are left with ties to the factory, which has been turned into loft apartments.
archives.cnn.com /2000/STYLE/arts/08/16/cabbagetown   (1093 words)

  
 Arthur Blank Family Foundation
Atlanta Development Authority - $380,000 for land acquisition to create new access points and connect a potential greenway trail to the Wildwood Urban Forest in northeast Atlanta.
Atlanta Youth Soccer Association - $400,000 for acquisition of an industrial site in the Kirkwood neighborhood of Atlanta, which will be converted for use as a youth soccer complex and permanently protected as green space.
City of Atlanta, Department of Parks, Recreation & Cultural Affairs ­ $460,000 for expansion, planning and improvement of public parks in the city of Atlanta.
www.blankfoundation.org /initiatives/spaces_projects.html   (1389 words)

  
 Cabbagetown, Atlanta: (Re)Placing Identity
<1> Cabbagetown is one of Atlanta's oldest industrial settlements, built for employees of the South's first cotton processing mill in 1881 during the heyday of southeastern textile mills.
Atlanta billed itself as a commercial center and transportation hub, which then required a cheap labor force as textile mills migrated South.
Cabbagetown residents are furious with the School Board, whose vacant elementary school property has been neglected, defaced, and inhabited by prostitutes, derelicts, and drug dealers.
reconstruction.eserver.org /023/crampton.htm   (1584 words)

  
 Atlanta Relocation | Georgia Relocation | Moving to Atlanta
Atlanta's oldest industrial settlement was founded in 1885 to support labor for Jacob Elsas' Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill.
Today, Cabbagetown is a thriving community of diversity and southern flavor, enjoying a revitalization which is an inspiration to the city.
Atlanta's legendary past is immortalized by the Margaret Mitchell House, home of Atlanta's famous author.
www.atlantarelocationcentral.com /neighborhoods.html   (1179 words)

  
 East Atlanta -
The village of East Atlanta and surrounding neighborhoods have seen considerable renewal efforts since the late 1990s.
Because of that, the Battle of Atlanta, which culminated the Atlanta Campaign and sealed the fate of the Confederacy, was fought in the East Atlanta behind the Union lines.
In 1981, the East Atlanta Community Association was founded to bolster a sense of community in the neighborhood and work to improve the quality of life.
psychcentral.com /psypsych/East_Atlanta   (1711 words)

  
 Cabbagetown Real Estate -homes for sale in Cabbegtown, GA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The renovation of the Fulton Cotton Mill into luxary loft apartments was finally announced in 1992, with funding from the department of Housing and Urban Development and the Empowerment Zone intiative.
Many longterm residents have been displaced by the newcomers, but there are still plenty of people who either worked at the mill and or remember the days when the twin stacks still blew smoke.
New businesses such as the Cabbagetown Grill, Agave Restaurant, Up the Alley Gallery, Carroll Street Bakery, and the Urban Gardner, are growing with the neighborhood, and leading the way for more commerce.
www.greatatlantapads.com /info_cabbagetown.htm   (266 words)

  
 Creative Loafing - Creative Loafing Atlanta: Fallout: Feature Story: Showdown in Cabbagetown
Cabbagetown's Donna Webster is raising money for the neighborhood's proposed purchase of a shuttered school site.
For about three years, Webster and other Cabbagetown residents have tried to convince the Atlanta School Board to demolish the building and let the neighborhood or the Parks Department turn the property into a park or a community center.
Even more painful is that because of the board's glacial bureaucracy, the Cabbagetown contingent missed its chance to spend a $100,000 grant on purchasing or renovating the school property.
atlanta.creativeloafing.com /2000-12-30/news_feature.html   (885 words)

  
 Atlanta Real Estate - Featured Searches   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Cabbagetown, Atlanta's oldest industrial settlement, was founded in 1885 to support labor for Jacob Elsas' Fulton Bag and Carpet Mill.
The neighborhood is bounded by Ponce De Leon Avenue on the north, Moreland Avenue on the east, Highland Avenue on the south (the loop around the south side of the Carter Center), and the CSX railroad corridor on the west.
Virginia-Highland is the area within the Atlanta city limits bounded on the north by Amsterdam Avenue, on the south by Ponce de Leon Avenue, on the east by Briarcliff Road, and on the west by the Southern Railroad Line.
www3.helpusell.com /Intown/Listings/FeaturedSearches.aspx   (2199 words)

  
 About Cabbagetown Park   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Cabbagetown Initiative's mission is to enhance the quality of life in the Cabbagetown community by empowering neighbors to act collectively for community preservation and providing support and guidance for future growth.
Cabbagetown Initiative would like to thank AGAVE for donating some of their proceeds from their famous CINCO DE MAYO PARTY to the C-Town Park.
The Cabbagetown Initiative Community Development Center (CICDC) is pleased to announce the groundbreaking for the Cabbagetown Community Park.
www.cabbagetowninitiative.org /Default.aspx?tabid=52   (418 words)

  
 Atlanta Real Estate, Atlanta homes for sale, Atlanta Intown real estate
Originally developed around 1910 as Atlanta's first country club neighborhood, Brookhaven, located on the northern edge of Buckhead is an enclave of large, elegant Tudor, Colonial, Georgian and English cottage homes.
Inman Park is one of Atlanta's strongest communities, with a hardworking neighborhood association, a garden club and a two-day festival each spring that draws thousands.
At one time this prime area was in danger of becoming part of a planned highway system, but with the efforts of community leaders and activists, the area revitalized itself to become the urban professional's dream.
www.atlantaintowncentral.com   (1324 words)

  
 atlantalarry: Cabbagetown   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
While former residents of Cabbagetown reading this post might never have thought of it this way, Cabbagetown is one of the most physically beautiful and human scaled neighborhoods Atlanta has ever seen.
I've taken a number of photos in Cabbagetown over the past week, and there are so many gorgeous houses and rows of houses there that deciding which houses to photograph, and then narrowing down those photos is a major undertaking.
Cabbagetown is a neighborhood worth spending some time wandering.
larryfeltonjohnson.typepad.com /atlantalarry/2004/05/cabbagetown.html   (422 words)

  
 The Color of Money
In 1981, the city of Atlanta loaned $400,000 in federal funds to an earlier Cabbagetown neighborhood cooperative, which became tangled in internal and external squabbles.
A bailout was engineered by the Atlanta Economic Development Agency, a quasi-public body that previously has developed industrial parks but now has taken on neighborhood redevelopment as a priority.
Cabbagetown is a white inner-city neighborhood, but the consortium is supporting other projects in fl neighborhoods.
powerreporting.com /color/49.html   (823 words)

  
 Atlanta Real Estate - The CARE Team of Keller Williams Intown Atlanta - Homepage
If you are relocating to Atlanta and enjoy the charm and variety of older, established communities, you’ll fall in love with
Intown Atlanta neighborhoods include Midtown, Inman Park, Candler Park, Virginia Highland, East Atlanta, Grant Park, Cabbagetown, and many more areas "inside the perimeter” of Atlanta.
Intown Atlanta neighborhoods give you a community feeling plus all the convenience and culture that Atlanta has to offer.
www.intownatlantarealtor.com   (367 words)

  
 CNN - Atlanta neighborhood symbol goes up in flames - April 13, 1999
ATLANTA (CNN) -- A symbol of Atlanta's rebirth after the fiery devastation of the Civil War went up in flames Monday, an ironic turn of events in a neighborhood rebuilding after two decades of decline.
The neighborhood languished for a while, before Cabbagetown Revitalization and Future Trust began renovating houses and providing assistance for the original residents.
Cabbagetown is now host to old-time mill workers and their children, urban pioneers, and more recent upscale transplants.
www.cnn.com /US/9904/13/cabbagetown   (568 words)

  
 PETE KNAPP :: Atlanta Neighborhoods   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
First developed in 1904, Ansley Park was the dream of Edwin P. Ansley who, along with several prominent Atlanta businessmen of the time, purchased a large plot of land north of the city from longtime owner George Washington Collier.
Ansleys vision of a gracious, harmonious neighborhood that would be an oasis in the midst of the bustling city of Atlanta lives on today, in great part thanks to the efforts of the Ansley Park Civic Association.
Historically, Reynoldstown is significant because the neighborhood reflects the larger historical pattern of African-American settlement in the city of Atlanta.
www.peteknapp.com /neighborhoods.htm   (2028 words)

  
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Coming to Atlanta, Chan returns to the city where she spent a large part of her early life.
She's also resuming residence in Cabbagetown, where she lived before she moved to New York in 1992 and began her life as indie rock's most hypnotic, alluring voice.
And it's the same area, on the east side of Atlanta, where she was born nearly 27 years ago.
www.stardustlanes.com /deadjackie/chan.html   (2149 words)

  
 Druid Hills-Atlanta Real Estate and Homes for Sale in DeKalb County, Georgia
Atlanta is the New South, where progress and history exist side by side and social reform is making great advances.
Cabbagetown, Atlanta’s oldest industrial settlement, was founded in 1885 as a place for the Fulton Bag & Cotton Mill workers to live.
Don and Jeannie are members of the Atlanta Board of Realtors, the Georgia Association of Realtors, and the National Association of Realtors and are part of the Gwinnett Village Improvement Association.
www.druidhills-realestate.com   (940 words)

  
 atlanta-midtown.com's Guide to Eating Intown | Virginia-Highland restaurants, Midtown restaurants, Buckhead ...
This part of Atlanta is foodie heaven with a heaping helping of the city's best restaurants regardless of cuisine or price point.
Cabbagetown is just north of I-20 and the Grant Park neighborhood.
It sits north of Downtown Atlanta and south of Buckhead, east of Georgia Tech and the Westside, and west of Virginia-Highland and Morningside.
www.atlanta-midtown.com /eating/area_central.html   (1757 words)

  
 Cabbagetown Initiative > Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Cabbagetown Initiative Community Development Corporation’s realization of building a park in the heart of Cabbagetown is finally a reality.
With the development of this park and revitalization of our neighborhood center, we are meeting a critical need for the city and our community and we are creating safer areas for families to gather.
Success of this major project will make Cabbagetown the first and only urban mill village in the country to have its own greenspace.
www.cabbagetowninitiative.org   (284 words)

  
 Atlanta Neighborhoods, Atlanta Georgia Neighborhoods, Georgia Neighborhoods
The community was named after a "buck's head," when someone shot a buck and hung the head on a tree outside the tavern, thus becoming a popular landmark.
This National Register of Historic Places neighborhood is one of Atlanta's first suburbs and was founded as Edgewood in 1890.
Today, Dunwoody is widely regarded as one of Atlanta's most upscale communities.
www.ianmarshall.com /neighborhoods.html   (1229 words)

  
 Atlanta PlanIt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
In her paid obit, of her six children my name was nowhere to be seen.
Cabbagetown, for very nearly a century a cotton mill village in the heart of the city, is, today, a neighborhood of “urban pioneers,” to quote a friend of mine, the folk singer Joyce Brookshire, who grew up there, the younger daughter of a mill worker.
It is about the bumps in the night that my heart and soul held out against with a neglected and abused child’s passion.
www.atlantaplanit.com /discussion/entryDisplay.aspx?wid=3466   (1322 words)

  
 Kirkwood (Atlanta) -
Kirkwood is a neighborhood in eastern Atlanta, Georgia.
It is situated entirely in the DeKalb County and near Lake Claire, East Lake, and Oakhurst.
It initially was developed during the 1870's as an Atlanta suburb, and was annexed by the City of Atlanta in 1922.
psychcentral.com /psypsych/Kirkwood_(Atlanta)   (169 words)

  
 Creative Loafing Atlanta | EVENTS HOME
This relaxed, laid-back "song swap" features local musicians (everyone from first-timers to seasoned pros) in a fun, informal setting.
Dad's Garage teams up with Creative Loafing and Hands On Atlanta to bring local political figures and celebrities to the stage to chat about current political topics.
Hosted by Kodac Harrison and home of the Atlanta Slam team.
atlantahappenings.creativeloafing.com /gbase/Events/...?oid=oid:168401   (147 words)

  
 Lynne Splinter Realtors | About Us
She purchased and restored a 1905 victorian home in the then redeveloping neighborhood of Cabbagetown and has been an active member of the community ever since.
She has had a leadership role in the Cabbagetown Neighborhood Improvement Association and the Cabbagetown Initiative Community Development Corporation, which has been instrumental in the planning and development of the new Cabbagetown park and community center.
Pam Burianek is a native of Atlanta and a graduate of Riverwood High School.
www.lynnesplinter.com /aboutUs.html   (611 words)

  
 Griffin builds play area for Cabbagetown kids - Atlanta Business Chronicle:
Working with a host of local small businesses that donated labor and materials, the group converted an unused and dangerous patch of land to a safe environment for kids.
The Cabbagetown project is part of a larger strategy for Griffin that stretches throughout the year, Cohen said.
He and Lewis are part of a permanent committee that deals with customer and community relations, and that group regularly sponsors donation drives for shelters and similar projects.
www.bizjournals.com /atlanta/stories/1997/01/06/focus14.html   (625 words)

  
 Atlanta on 43 Places   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
I had to go to Atlanta on family business… Atlanta is huge and sprawling.
I was there when the idiot ran backwards through security because he forgot his “bag” in one of the airport bars (right after 9/11) and ended shutting down the entire Atlanta Hartsfield Airport for three hours.
Kate23 asks, “I am from the northern virginia area and am possibly going to be moving to Atlanta and had some questions.
www.43places.com /places/view/106722   (752 words)

  
 Cabbagetown, Art Farm - Atlanta, GA, 30316-1127 - Citysearch
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