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  West End - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
West End, a district in Espoo, Finland, near the seashore and the eastern border to Helsinki
West End, Boston, Massachusetts, a former district of Boston, Massachusetts
West End, Washington, DC neighborhood of Washington, DC West End (Richmond, Virginia), a suburban region of Richmond, Virginia
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/West_End   (298 words)

  
 West End (Atlanta) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The West End neighborhood of Atlanta is on the National Register of Historic Places and can be found southwest of Castleberry Hill and just north of Oakland City.
Following the American Civil War the area was home mainly to railway laborers driven out of Atlanta by the high cost of living and as late as 1876 there were only 150 households most of which were laborers (the only well-known name is Jonathan Norcross).
It is served by the West End MARTA station and is home to the Atlanta University Center or (AUC) which consists of Spelman College, Morehouse College, and Clark Atlanta University among others.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/West_End_(Atlanta)   (320 words)

  
 City of Atlanta Online
The West End Historic District lies in the southwest quadrant of Atlanta in the area known as West End.
Furthermore, West End is connected directly and indirectly with leaders of varying local, state, regional, and national significance in the Civil War, politics, literature, architecture and the Civil Rights Movement.
Their agreement established guarantees that West End would remain white, stating, "While this Board is not setting up any property line or zoning area for Negro expansion, in the spirit of good will and public relations, in cooperation with the people of West End, this agreement is being made for the time being.
www.atlantaga.gov /government/urbandesign_westend.aspx   (4501 words)

  
 History of Atlanta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Atlanta is situated on the Piedmont Plateau at an elevation of 1,050 feet, yet there are no natural barriers such as mountains or large bodies of water to impede the city’s growth.
Atlanta’s residential perimeters were expanded by the advent of the horse-drawn streetcar in 1871 and suburban patterns developed along the lines of the electric streetcar starting in 1891.
Atlanta is the Capitol city of the southeast, a city of the future with strong ties to its past.
www.sos.state.ga.us /tours/html/atlanta_history.html   (2591 words)

  
 West End Historic District--Atlanta: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
The West End Historic District exemplifies the pattern of growth and development that characterized metropolitan Atlanta during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
West End became a desirable suburban community in the 1880s, and grew rapidly in population and prosperity, so that by 1930 there were more than 22,000 residents.
West End Historic District, in the southwest section of Atlanta, is roughly bounded by I-20 to the north, Lee St. to the east, White St. to the south, and Langhorn St. to the west.
www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/atlanta/whd.htm   (642 words)

  
 About West End
But for West End it was to be the first stitch in a pattern of starting new church works, and working to spread the gospel through missions to other communities and towns.
West End was busy throughout, establishing missionary works in north Atlanta and elsewhere in the state.
Dorothy Griffin remembers transferring her membership from Turner Road to West End in the spring of 1973, nearly a year before Wesley Brown was to give in and answer the call of the West End elders.
www.thewestender.com /about_wend.htm   (2812 words)

  
 Joe Brown High School Web Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
ATLANTA (May 10, 2001) -- A group of senior design students at Georgia Tech eager to apply their architecture skills to a real-world urban revitalization project are working closely with city planners and neighborhood stakeholders to develop a master plan for historic West End in the southwest corner of the city.
The project is one of several developed by students working in conjunction with the West End Neighborhood Development Group, the City of Atlanta Planning Department and the Atlanta Regional Commission to study West End and the possibilities it might hold for improved live, work and play environments.
Among their goals are to develop alternatives for underused or vacant property; encourage infill and redevelopment; develop streetscape and pedestrian/bicycle linkages to a range of travel modes; connect the transportation center to other centers; create civic space and focal points; preserve the historic characteristics of the center; and to improve the community identity.
pages.prodigy.net /mreily/bea5-10-01.htm   (615 words)

  
 West End -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Generally speaking, the "West End" usually refers to the western sector or suburb of a city.
West End, Atlanta, center of Black cultures and history southwest of downtown Atlanta, Georgia.
West End of Espoo, a district in Espoo, Finland, near the seashore and the eastern border to Helsinki
psychcentral.com /psypsych/West_End   (355 words)

  
 Hotels in West End
Atlanta, GA New in January 2006, this boutique hotel is 1 block from Phillips Arena, 2 blocks from Georgia World Congress Center, and 5 blocks from Georgia Aquarium.
Atlanta, GA This 20-story downtown hotel is three blocks from Peachtree Center and across the street from a rapid-rail station.
Atlanta, GA This Atlanta all-suites hotel is six blocks from the Georgia World Congress Center and all major downtown attractions.
www.expedia.co.uk /daily/hotels/Georgia/WestEnd.asp   (975 words)

  
 Atlanta - Wikitravel
Atlanta was originally founded as Terminus in 1836, the name reflecting its function as a railway terminus, and renamed Atlanta in 1847.
Atlanta is served by Amtrak's Crescent train, which runs daily and serves New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Charlotte, Atlanta, Birmingham and New Orleans (and vice-versa).
Atlanta is served by MARTA, (Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority) which operates both rapid rail and bus networks in the city of Atlanta and the counties of Fulton and Dekalb.
wikitravel.org /en/Atlanta   (4860 words)

  
 West End Historic District: "Winston-Salem's Front Porch"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
West End News for Fall 2005 ---- "COME OUT TO OUR PORCH" a seventy-photo exhibit at the Winston-Salem Visitors Center is on display now through September in the facilty's downstairs boardroom.
From its beginnings as a regional spa resort and exclusive residence for the men of wealth born of tobacco and textiles, West End has been a pedestrian paradise.
See West End "in the driver's seat" in the 1920s, as Reynolds and Hanes factories made Winston-Salem the largest industrial city between Baltimore and Atlanta.
www.echidnadesign.com /w-sfrontporch/home.html   (367 words)

  
 West End real estate gets an e-jolt - Atlanta Business Chronicle:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
One indication of the rapid appreciation in West End real estate value: When MCI WorldCom made the first sizable telecom deal in the area three years ago, it paid approximately $10.50 per square foot for an abandoned industrial facility.
"[West End] is probably the second-best location for telecom switches, behind the intersection of Peachtree and Marietta streets downtown," said Scott Tanksley of Wilson & Nolan, who represented MCI WorldCom in its 1997 deal.
Atlanta City Council member Cleta Winslow, who represents the West End area, couldn't be reached by phone but praised the project in a written statement, citing the large commitment TRES is making to southwest Atlanta.
www.bizjournals.com /atlanta/stories/2000/04/17/story1.html?t=printable   (901 words)

  
 ATLANTA MEDIA TRIES TO CONVICT FORMER BLACK PANTHER
Al-Amin, a respected leader in Atlanta's Muslim community for close to 25 years, was already on trial by the media for the March 16 shooting death of one Fulton County deputy sheriff and the wounding of another.
The Atlanta media used photographs of him from the 1960s when he was known as H. Rap Brown and was a member of the Black Panther Party, instead of current photos showing him as Imam of the Atlanta Community Mosque and leader of his West End community for over two decades.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution characterized Al-Amin as a two-timing, big-spending deadbeat living beyond his means and running a store and mosque for "members of the Atlanta Community Mosque [who] cut a distinctive path through the West End.
www.iacenter.org /polprisoners/al_amin1.htm   (853 words)

  
 Metroblogging Atlanta: West End Trivia Bits
West End officially became a part of Atlanta on January 1, 1894.
The West End District was the first locally designated historic district in the City of Atlanta.
The layout of the original West End was a main street and adjacent grid pattern streets; three right turns and you were back where you started.
atlanta.metblogs.com /archives/2006/04/west_end_trivia.phtml   (631 words)

  
 New Georgia Encyclopedia: Joel Chandler Harris (1845-1908)
Harris quickly discovered that Atlanta had become not only the fastest-growing city in the Southeast but also the very center of what Grady, a decade later, famously described as the New South.
Harris died on July 3, 1908, of acute nephritis and was buried in Westview Cemetery, West End, Atlanta.
Harris's retelling of the story of Brer Rabbit and the tar baby remains one of the world's best-known folktales, and his complex legacy as a literary comedian, New South journalist, folklorist, fiction writer, and children's author continues to influence modern culture in a surprising number of ways.
www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-525   (2444 words)

  
 Georgia Alliance for Children
West End Park is bordered by Lucile Avenue and Lawton Street.
West End Park is bordered by Lawton and Oak Streets.
West End Park is one block behind Captain D's.
www.gac.org /walk.htm   (576 words)

  
 Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System
From the west, the #71 comes from the Cascade and Beecher Hills areas via Cascade and Abernathy going to the West End, stopping at the corner of Peeples.
Goes from West Lake Station (on the West rail line) to West End Station (on the South rail line) via South Gordon St., Lucile Ave., and Lowery Blvd. (formerly Ashby St.).
The West End Library meeting room seats 80 persons and is available for community meetings.
www.afplweb.com /west_end_branch.html   (232 words)

  
 Historic Preservation: Atlanta's West End Historic District Listed in the National Register   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The West End Historic District is significant in architecture for its large, diverse, and very intact collection of historic residential, commercial, and community landmark buildings.
West End's development began in the 1830s with the small settlement of White Hall at the important crossroads of White Hall (now Lee Street) and Sandtown Roads (now Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard).
West End is a good example of the pattern of growth and development that characterized metro-Atlanta area expansion in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
www.state.ga.us /dnr/histpres/press/press.cgi?prfile=PR.19990315.01   (511 words)

  
 West End (Atlanta, GA) Business   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Customers on one of Delta's new international flights got a different view upon landing at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport this morning as Delta Flight 153 from Tel Aviv, Israel, was the...
Atlanta Business Chronicle - May 19, 2006 by Ryan Mahoney Staff Writer Georgia may be looking for a "water czar." Brad Currey, former CEO of Norcross-based packaging giant Rock-Tenn Co. Comment?
The 16th annual Komen Atlanta Race for the Cure surpassed the $1 million mark for the first time in its history.
www.topix.net /city/atlanta-ga-west-end/business   (279 words)

  
 Nashville-West End Summit - UrbanPlanet.org
Atlanta midtown is great and maybe one day are midtown would be in the same breath...When will they break ground on this building??
Tony Giarratanna told me that he felt West End Summit would not be built because of the height.
Back many years ago, the American Center twin tower development on West end at 31st avenue was supposed to be 24 stories or about 350 feet.
www.urbanplanet.org /forums/index.php?act=findpost&pid=76895   (1142 words)

  
 Population of Atlanta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
After steadily growing for its first 100 years, the population within the city limits of Atlanta began to fall while the metro area continued to grow.
The intown trend has reversed as of the mid-1990s.
1896 saw annexation of West End (11 square miles)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Population_of_Atlanta   (150 words)

  
 West End | Urban Vancouver
Link: http://spaces.msn.com/bamboobay/Blog/cns!A6E7A14D59CDF583!841.entry Well I have a month left in Vancouver.  Spring is really beautiful here in the West End.   There are fantastic flowers in bloom, as well as  the cherry blossom trees  covering the streets with their pink canopies.  The Robin's are all out gathering worms.  The sun is warm.
The surface drill has been moved to the west end of the Daye Structure which is referred to as the West Tianjia Zone.
Towards the end of the guided tour, we were shown the lair of an orange kneed tarantula.
www.urbanvancouver.com /news/topics/west-end?from=100   (12365 words)

  
 Atlanta Real Estate Blog: West End   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Sky Lofts is located in the up and coming West End of Atlanta which is just West (naturally) of the Downtown area.
With this close location, the West End is poised to be a hot area in the next several years.
The West End is going through a revitalization with a $2 million design now underway that includes sidewalks, trees, streetlights, and other streetscape enhancements.
www.atlagentintown.com /west_end   (191 words)

  
 West End Animal Hospital - Atlanta, GA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
West End Animal Hospital was established over 35 years by Dr. Sam Ward and is still catering to the care of small animals under the care of Dr. Ken Grant.
West End Animal Hospital services include medical treatments, as well as grooming and boarding facilities.
During eastern standard time, when the days are shorter, West End Animal Hospital will be closed on Thursday afternoons.
yp.bellsouth.com /sites/basic/categories/sites/westendanimal   (141 words)

  
 Estrofest Productions - Productions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
At the ending of 2004 and the beginning of 2005, EstroFest Productions, Inc., announced the selection of a new Artistic Director, and the Festival schedule of June 8-12, 2005, but this date has been changed to June 15-19, 2005 to accommodate the various artist community events taking place in June.
Call for Submissions will be distributed today throughout the Atlanta community and across the country to deliver the Atlanta art community a Festival of diverse, multicultural, creative and artistic genius of woman-positive art.
Located along Murphy Avenue in the West End, just 5 minutes from downtown Atlanta, The B COMPLEX claims over two acres of the city’s last urban frontier.
www.estrofest.org /production.html   (649 words)

  
 2,000 Minority Medical Students to Converge on Atlanta’s West End Mall
Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) April 12, 2006 -- As part of the activates scheduled by the Student National Medical Association’s (SNMA) during their 41st Annual Medical Education Conference entitled, “Changing Our State-of-Mind: Empowerment through Business, Education, Literacy, Prevention, and P.R.I.D.E.” at the downtown Hilton Atlanta Hotel, April 13 -16.[ For more information, visit www.snma.org.]
Participants include the West End Medical Centers, Inc. and nearly 100 exhibitors and vendors from educational institutions, community and service organizations and businesses.
The community members from Atlanta and the surrounding areas are invited to participate.
www.prweb.com /releases/2006/4/prweb369590.htm   (370 words)

  
 Cinema Treasures | West End Theatre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The West End Theatre on Lee Street and the Gordon Theatre on Gordon Street were about a quarter of a mile apartment.
The West End Theatre was one of a number of Atlanta area movie theaters that went out of business in the early to mid 1950's.
In the same general vicinity, about half a mile outside the main business district of West End, was the Cascade Theatre at 1340 Gordon Street, SW (near the juncture of Cascade Road).
cinematreasures.org /theater/11634   (435 words)

  
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Atlanta’s West End is approximately 5 miles West of the city’s skyline and business district.
The West End features a variety of historic housing stock, including Victorian and Craftsman bungalows.
Currently enjoying a resurgence, the West End is close to all the conveniences of intown.Westside Village sits near Morris Brown, Spelman and Morehouse colleges, Clark Atlanta University and the Interdenominational Theological Center.
www.bobridgeport.com /atlanta/westend.aspx?language=Spanish   (196 words)

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