Learn How Atlanta's Neighborhoods Got Their Unique Names – University of Atlanta Explore, Educate and Evolve

You may know not know that Atlanta was once called Marthasville, but do you know how it got neighborhoods like Buckhead and Just Us? With University of Atlanta Explore Educate and Evolve Campaign, we will learn how just a few of Atlanta’s neighborhoods got their names.

Here are the few most interesting explanations behind these names.

CABBAGETOWN

An ode to aroma, Cabbagetown got its name from the long-lasting whiff that resulted after the entire neighborhood around the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill cooked cabbages on the same night. It’s said that either a bus carrying them tossed them over and dropped loads of cabbages onto the street for anyone’s taking or that the driver gave the bad cabbages away.

ENGLISH AVENUE

English Avenue is named for the English family, who bought the land in the late 19th century.

KNIGHT PARK/HOWELL STATION

The neighborhood Howell Station is named after Evan P. Howell, a Confederate infantry captain who went on to serve as mayor of Atlanta. Knight Park bears the name of William T. Knight, a neighborhood resident and alderman who gave the land for a public park in 1940.

JUST US

In the 1950's, the Fountain Drive-Morris Brown Drive Community Club was re-titled Just Us, a reference to the area’s relatively small number fofor people residing  (as in, “it’s just us living here”). The neighborhood has a total of two boulevards, so it hardly needed its long new name.

MARGARET MITCHELL

Although the area bears the name of the author of Gone with the Wind, she never actually lived there. Originally named Cherokee Forest, the neighborhood adopted the name Margaret Mitchell as a nod to the Margaret Mitchell Elementary School, which was located in the area on Margaret Mitchell Drive.

WHITTIER MILL VILLAGE

The Whittier Mill is named after the Whittier family. After successfully running a mill in Massachusetts, the Whittiers opened a southern branch in Atlanta in 1896.

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