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  2. Old Fourth Ward - Wikipedia

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    The Old Fourth Ward, often abbreviated O4W, is an intown neighborhood on the eastside of Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The neighborhood is best known as the location of the Martin Luther King Jr. historic site .

  3. Historic Fourth Ward Park - Wikipedia

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    In Atlanta's Old Fourth Ward neighborhood, flooding from nearby Clear Creek has always been an issue. In the late 1980s and early 90s, the city drafted a $40 million plan to dig a massive underground tunnel in order to channel excess stormwater to a processing plant, where it would be cleaned and discharged into the Chattachoochee River.

  4. Fourth Ward (Atlanta) - Wikipedia

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    Fourth Ward in blue (1874 to 1883) A new city charter increased the radius of the city from one to one and a half miles, reduced the number of wards back to five and created a bicameral council of two councilmen from each ward and a second body of three at-large aldermen was established.

  5. Boulevard (Atlanta) - Wikipedia

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    Atlanta Medical Center Shotgun houses on Auburn Avenue at Boulevard, part of the Martin Luther King, Jr., National Historic Site Federal Penitentiary on postcard from 1920 YoBoulevard! banner 2012. Boulevard is a street in and, as a corridor, a subdistrict, of the Old Fourth Ward neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia.

  6. How Raleigh once demolished a Black neighborhood and ...

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    An estimated 1,600 people, nearly all of them Black, packed up and left the century-old community known as Fourth Ward — the disowned child of Oak City history.

  7. Atlanta annexations and wards - Wikipedia

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    Layout of Atlanta's five wards (1854–1871) The 1848 charter only specified election of six citywide councilmembers, but on January 9, 1854, an ordinance was adopted that divided the town into five wards and two councilmen from each ward would be elected to coincide with the completion of the first official city hall.

  8. Gentrification of Atlanta - Wikipedia

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    The "poster child" for gentrification in Atlanta today is the Old Fourth Ward. Gentrification of the Ward began in the 1980s, and continued at a more rapid pace in the 21st century. New apartment and condo complexes with ground-floor retail sprung up, particularly along the BeltLine, Ponce de Leon Avenue, North Avenue, Highland Avenue and ...

  9. Category:Old Fourth Ward - Wikipedia

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    Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site and Preservation District (17 P) Pages in category "Old Fourth Ward" The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total.