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Atlanta BeltLine's Historic Fourth Ward Park
In 2010, DeepRoot installed 970 Silva Cells in the Historic Fourth Ward Park in Atlanta to support 36 new trees. The park is a stunning, 17-acre green space that was developed as part of the Atlanta Beltline revitalization project.
Old Fourth Ward - Great Atlanta Neighborhood to Live Work and Play
The Historic Fourth Ward Park is owned by the City of Atlanta. The Conservancy has been invited to participate in a stakeholder capacity on the design of the Park. All design and construction related activities are the responsibility of Atlanta Beltline Inc. and the City of Atlanta. The City of Atlanta is responsible for the operation, maintenance and security of this Park. Please contact the Department of Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs at 404.546.6745 if you have any questions or concerns about these issues.
History of the Area
Late 1860s – Atlanta residents began visiting the springs in John Armistead's beech grove two miles east of town., approximately 50 yds. south of the intersection of Ponce de Leon and the Atlanta Beltline. An Atlanta physician named the springs Ponce de Leon Springs, based on his assertion that the water held rejuvenative properties. Soon, an omnibus carried passengers daily from Atlanta to the springs for a 10-cent fare.
1874 – Atlanta’s Fourth Ward is established by a new city charter. The original political district extended to the northeastern city limits, bounded by West Peachtree to the west and the Georgia Railroad tracks to the south.The term “Old Fourth Ward” goes back to 1937, when the state legislature reduced the number of city wards from 13 to 6, combining many old wards into new ones. The “old fourth ward,” became part of the new 5th Ward. The city’s ward system ended in 1954 with the creation of a Board of Aldermen, which would last until the City Charter of 1974, which created the current Atlanta City Council.
1903 – The Ponce de Leon Amusement Park opens, on the site of what would become the Sears building and the Historic Fourth Ward Park.The park featured a casino and a theater, and a merry-go-round, laughing gallery, “Cave of the Winds,” penny arcade, two attractive restaurants, and many more attractions.
1907 – The Ponce de Leon Ballpark opens, in what is now the Midtown Plaza shopping center, to host the Atlanta Crackers, who played there until the 1960s.
1928 – Sears Roebuck builds its Southern Regional Distribution Center on Ponce de Leon, then and still, the largest brick building in the Southeast.
1989 - The Sears Roebuck building is purchased by the City of Atlanta and re-christened City Hall East.
2006 – The City establishes the Atlanta BeltLine, Inc., to create the Atlanta BeltLine, a 22-mile transportation/ recreation corridor that will encircle Atlanta’s downtown. ABI establishes plans for a number of parks as part of the project, including the 17.5 acre Historic Fourth Ward Park.
2011 – City Hall East is sold to Johnstown Properties, who is currently developing the property, renamed the Ponce City Market, as a mixed-use development of retail, office, condos and apartments. It is expected to open in 2014.
2012 – The Atlanta Beltline, Inc., completes the Historic Fourth Ward Park, the first major city park on the BeltLine.
Historic Fourth Ward Park
The Atlanta Regional Commission's (ARC) 14th annual State of the Region Breakfast was held Friday, October 12, 2012 at the Georgia World Congress Center.
The Livable Communities Coalition works with ARC and an esteemed jury of experts to select deserving projects from around the 10-county Atlanta region that exemplify cutting-edge, livable designs. The 2012 ARC Development of Excellence award goes to Historic Fourth Ward Park, a true feat of engineering and a testament to the power of partnerships,
Historic Old Fourth Ward Park
The first phase of Historic Fourth Ward Park is now open to the public. The Grand Opening Celebration will take place later this spring when Phase II is complete, but in the meantime go explore Phase I, which includes the beautiful storm water lake, elegant walkways and waterfalls. For more information about the park, please access
EPA's 2013 Smart Growth Award: Atlanta BeltLine Eastside Trail & Historic 4th Ward Park, Atlanta, GA
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The Atlanta BeltLine is comprised of four individual belt lines that were built as railroad bypass routes around downtown Atlanta in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The 2.25-mile Eastside Trail is the first section of the Atlanta BeltLine trail system to be redeveloped within the abandoned rail corridor. The trail connects five formerly divided neighborhoods by providing 30 acres of greenway, a pedestrian and bicycle trail, and an arboretum. The Eastside Trail connects to Historic Fourth Ward Park, a cleaned-up brownfield that is now a 17-acre park with a lake to handle stormwater runoff. The trail and park have spurred more than $775 million in private development, including more than 1,000 new mixed-income condominiums and apartments currently under construction.
EPA created the National Award for Smart Growth Achievement in 2002 to recognize exceptional approaches to development that protect the environment, encourage economic vitality, and enhance quality of life. In the past 12 years, 61 winners from 26 states have shown a variety of approaches that states, regions, cities, suburbs, and rural communities can use to create economically strong, environmentally responsible development. EPA's Office of Sustainable Communities manages the awards program.
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DWM Receives Envision Gold Award for Historic Fourth Ward Park
The Department of Watershed Management was recently presented an Envision Gold award from HDR, Incorporated for the Historic Fourth Ward Park. It is the first project in the state of Georgia, and the first along the Atlanta BeltLine to receive the prestigious honor.
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Historic -Vintage Atlanta, Ga.(Educational Video)
Correction: at the end of the video I stated that the PLATFORM the park was built on was no longer there..That was incorrect, it is still there and is now part of Peachtree Fountains Plaza and Underground Atlanta entrance. The park has been completely redesigned /reconfigured and has changed so much that it's now hard to recognize as part of the same space that Plaza Park once occupied. That is the only information in the video that was incorrect.
Atlanta, Georgia (Old Fourth Ward Historic District) - Aerial Footage
Old Fourth Ward Historic District & Park - (Downtown)
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Atlanta Neighborhood “Buttermilk Bottom” Old 4th Ward
Old Atlanta Hood that was destroyed and taken off the map
Song : Buttermilk Bottom
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Flying Around The Historic Fourth Ward Skatepark - Atlanta, GA
This video was taken with a DJI Phantom Quadcopter ( and a GoPro Hero3 camera ( at the Historic Fourth Ward Skatepark by the Beltline in Atlanta, GA. We took this footage late in the evening and the weather was nice and calm. The last shot is pretty cool because the sun was going down behind the Atlanta skyline.
Music: Cold Funk by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Old Fourth Ward — An Intown Atlanta Neighborhood
Located east of Downtown and south of Midtown, this is rapidly changing neighborhood has experienced substantial growth in recent years. The Old Fourth Ward has become one of the most dynamic and sought-after areas of the city, winning Creative Loafing’s 2010 award for “Best Bet for Next Hot ‘Hood”
Atlanta-The Beginning and End of Public Housing.wmv
Atlanta, Georgia is the birth place of public housing i.e. Techwood Homes. Atlanta is also the first city to raze all of its public housing- exception Martin St Plaza (Summerhill) and Westminster (Piedmont Rd). Up until the Olympics 1 of 9 people in Atlanta lived in a housing project. These apartments are an extreme improvement from the neighborhoods that once stood in the same place. These projects are a part of Atlanta's history whether we like it or not. I couldn't fit in the highrise public housing so I will make another video for those. Also I left out other Fulton County projects...like Kimberly Courts and Boat Rock. Not to mention all the projects in our brother cities: East Point: Creekside, Hillcrest, Oj Hurt, Martel Homes, Washington Carver...College Park: Red Oak...etc. Decatur: Swanton Heights, Allen Wilson Terrace, Toby Grant ....etc. We came into this world with nothing and will leave with nothing- none of us had a choice of the life we were born in to. If you love your projects and you are proud of where you are from then good...those that live in other cities should recognize where it all started, Atlanta, Georgia. If you hate the projects because of miscellaneous reasons and negative stereotypes then fine...still thank Atlanta. Two apartments I wanted to mention are Tucker Homes, I called them Richmond Circle or the Sawtell Ave apartments, I did not know they were projects but they were listed under Atlanta public housing-they have been completely renovated- and same with Wheat St Gardens, I thought they were just apartments but they also were part of the Atlanta public housing at one time. Atlanta has publicly and privately owned projects.
Public Housing is shown in alphabetical order:
Bankhead Court - Bankhead Bolton project
Bowen Homes - Cary Park project
Capitol Homes
Carver Homes - South Atlanta project
Clark Howell Homes - Tanyard Bottoms project
Eagan Homes - Vine City project
East Lake Meadows aka Lil Vietnam - East Lake project
Englewood Manor - Chosewood Park project
Gilbert Gardens aka Pool Creek- Blair Village project
Grady Homes- Old Fourth Ward project
Harris Homes - West End project
Herndon Homes - Fifth Ward project
Hollywood Court -
John Hope Homes - Castleberry Hill project
Jonesboro North- Lakewood project
Jonesboro South - Lakewood project
Leila Valley - Rebel Valley Forest project
Martin St. Plaza- Summerhill project
McDaniel-Glenn- Mechanicsville project
Perry Homes-
Techwood Homes - Techwood Flats project
Thomasville Heights- Thomasville project
Tucker Homes- Lakewood Heights project
University Homes- Beaver Slide project
U-Rescue Villa- Buttermilk Bottoms-Bedford Pine project
Westminster -
Wheat St Gardens - Old Fourth Ward project
Beltline Fourth Ward Park Progress - September 2009
With so much buzz about Historic Fourth Ward Park underway, BeltLine.org has assembled this video piece that shows the plans and progress for the park, which will be located 1 block south of City Hall East, across North Avenue. This popular video takes on what it means to the people that really count - Atlanta's citizens. We'll keep you posted as progress continues. Lots to look forward to, so stay tuned! BeltLine.org
Old Fourth Ward
In the late 1860s, almost 350 years after Ponce de Leon sought the Fountain of Youth in the New World, an Atlanta physician claimed that the springs in a grove adjacent to what is now the BeltLine had restorative and rejuvenating properties. He named it Ponce de Leon Springs, and soon there was a carriage route making it easy for Atlanta residents to take the waters.
In the 1870s, the area became a part of the city's Fourth Ward, and by the turn of the century, it was flourishing, with an amusement park and a ballpark that was home to the Atlanta Crackers. In the 1930s, the state legislature reorganized the city, eliminating most of the wards to create a board of aldermen that lasted until the 1970s. The old fourth ward was folded into the new fifth ward, but the name persisted.
Today, O4W is one of the oldest neighborhoods in the city. It reaches from Piedmont Avenue and downtown on the west to Poncey-Highland and Inman Park on the east. Though in decline in recent years, the neighborhood has experienced a resurgence, with gentrification and new construction changing it dramatically.
Undergirding the Old Fourth Ward is a framework of historic buildings and institutions including the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Change, the King Memorial, the old and new Ebenezer Baptist Churches, the Edgewood Avenue curb market and the Boisfeuillet Jones Atlanta Civic Center, recently sold to a developer to build offices, homes, stores and restaurants.
The neighborhood is an eclectic mix of old homes, shotgun houses, bungalows, lofts, condos and ultramodern houses. High-rise apartments and condos now ring Historic Fourth Ward Park, one of the first of the urban parks proposed for the Atlanta BeltLine to be completed. The park boasts a large stormwater retention pond, a kids' splash pad and a skate park inaugurated by Tony Hawk himself. It sits behind Ponce City Market, the long-awaited development that transformed City Hall East, the government installation cobbled from the old Sears distribution center, into a vibrant live-work-play environment. The park stretches to Freedom Parkway, the gateway to the Carter Center.
There's so much happening in the Old Fourth Ward today that it has four separate neighborhood associations: Fourth Ward Neighbors (FWN), Fourth Ward Alliance, Fourth Ward West and 4th and S.A.N.D.
Fourth Ward Neighbors serves residents who live between Freedom Parkway and DeKalb Avenue, Boulevard and the BeltLine. The Fourth Ward Alliance is made up of residents and businesses located in the northern half of O4W, in the 30308 and 30312 ZIP codes. The boundaries are Ponce de Leon Avenue, Freedom Parkway, the Atlanta BeltLine and Boulevard. Fourth Ward West is the voice of the neighborhood bounded by North Avenue, the Baker-Highland Connector, Boulevard and Peachtree Street. And 4th and S.A.N.D. represents the Sweet Auburn Neighborhood District, a National Historical Landmark that includes what was the most prosperous black street in the nation in the early 20th century. The new streetcar line connects Sweet Auburn with downtown and the King Center.
O4W kids attend Hope-Hill Elementary and nearby Inman Middle School and Grady High School.
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Welcome to Kirkwood
Welcome to Atlanta’s historic Kirkwood neighborhood! Kirkwood offers the perfect in-town living experience with our friendly and diverse neighbors, strong sense of community, beautiful historic homes, mature trees, many parks and central location.
You will find many opportunities within the neighborhood to get to know your neighbors. We invite you to come to the next Kirkwood Neighbors’ Organization (KNO) meeting. The KNO meets on the tenth of every month at 7PM in the lower level of Turner Monumental AME Church at 65 Howard St NE and invites you to become involved in your community!
If you’re new to Kirkwood or thinking about moving here, we hope this site will help you learn more about the neighborhood. For the latest on what’s going on in Kirkwood, please view our calendar, newsletter and interactive message forum.
Secret skate park built under I-85, just yards from bridge collapse
The Georgia Department of Transportation never granted a permit for the park that skaters say is a piece of art.