Atlanta Constitution, April 18, 1893
This little editorial ran in the Atlanta Constitution the day after the city council adopted a resolution to change Wheat Street’s name to the “more pretentious” and “stylish” Auburn Avenue, at the request of the residents on the uptown end of the street.
Some council members also discussed changing the name of Peters Street on “a certain portion of the street” as “no respectable lady living on the street would give it as her address to a stranger” due to its infamy for housing a “disreputable class of people.”
Now, think about if Peachtree Street had been changed to Calhoun that long ago, as was proposed in this street-renaming frenzy of 1893! It would have altered the face of HISTORY.
See more street name changes here.
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