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Around 1970 the area began to decline as middle-class families moved away because blue-collar jobs in the neighborhood were slowly disappearing. The assembly plant finally closed in 1990. [8] The area is now an important center of the growing Atlanta-area film and television production industry.
In 1947, Georgia was a single numbering plan area (NPA) with area code 404. In 1954, 912 was assigned to its southern and central areas. The state operated with two area codes until May 3, 1992, when area code 706 was created for the two separate areas outside of the metro Atlanta area.
On June 27, 1995, the entire route from Loop 1604 to SH 16 was designated Urban Road 471 (UR 471). [ 2 ] [ 5 ] On December 18, 2014, the section of FM 471 between Loop 1604 and the Leon Valley city limits was turned back to the city of San Antonio and deleted from the state highway system; this was part of TxDOT's San Antonio turnback program ...
Area codes 678, 470, and 943 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the U.S. State of Georgia in the Atlanta metropolitan area. The area codes are assigned in an overlay plan to a combined numbering plan area (NPA) consisting of 404 (Atlanta and its suburbs inside Interstate 285 ) and 770 (Atlanta suburbs and ...
The Ben Hill area was first settled in the 1820s and was originally known as Mount Gilead Cross Roads. [2] The Judge William Wilson House was located in Ben Hill, one of a handful of antebellum buildings in Atlanta. The Atlanta Preservation Center placed the NRHP-listed house on its List of Most Endangered Historic Places in 2001. [3]
Toomsboro was founded when the Central of Georgia Railway was extended to that point. Its railroad terminal was built in 1869. [4]On August 30, 1871, Matthew Deason, a white man, and an African American woman who was possibly his wife, Serena Dul Cat C. Johnson (Georgia Marriages 1699–1944 in Wilkinson County Georgia) were lynched in Toomsboro by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
Mechanicsville is a neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia. It sits just south of downtown Atlanta. The neighborhood is bounded by: I-20 on the north, across which is Castleberry Hill and Downtown Atlanta; the I-75/I-85 Downtown Connector on the east, across which are Summerhill and Peoplestown
The main road through the community is Paces Ferry, which runs northwestward from West Paces Ferry Road (which in turn continues west to a dead-end after Ridgewood Rd). Northside Parkway is another major road through the area, carrying U.S. 41 and State Route 3 , and becoming Cobb Parkway across the river in Cumberland .