1890 Map of Atlanta

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The Chattahoochee River corridor is defined by a series of crossings and industrial sites such as Oakley Mill, Heard's Ferry, and Defoors Ferry, documenting the transportation network before the proliferation of modern bridges. The city center is a dense hub of converging rail lines, including the Georgia Railroad and the Atlanta and Florida Railroad, which fueled the rapid post-war expansion into nearby suburbs like Edgewood and Buckhead. To the east, the prominent relief of Stone Mountain towers over a landscape of smaller rural communities and farm-side stops such as Tricum and Brownings Store. Educational and religious foundations appear through sites like Clarks University and the Cornell church, while the peripheral regions are dotted with family-named landmarks like Jetts Store and Butlers Bridge, providing specific points of interest for genealogists tracing ancestral land holdings in Fulton and De Kalb counties.