List of former Atlanta street names

List of former Atlanta street names

Atlanta has a penchant for frequent street renamings, even in the central business district, usually to honor the recently deceased.

*Current name
**Former name(s)

*Andrew Young International Boulevard
**International Boulevard
**Cain Street (for pioneer John J. Cain)

*Auburn Avenue (as of April 17, 1893)
**Wheat Street

*Briarcliff Road
**Williams Mill Road

*Capitol Avenue (as of 1885)
**McDonough Boulevard (for the town it eventually reaches)

*Centennial Olympic Park Drive (from North Avenue south to around Mitchell Street)
**Techwood Drive (from North Avenue into Georgia Tech campus)
**Walker Street (from around Mitchell Street south to Peters Street)

*Central Park Place
**Bedford Place

*Courtland Street (as of September 20, 1886)
**North Collins Street (for pioneer James Collins — renamed because of redlight district reputation)

*Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway
**Bankhead Highway (renamed when a dance called the "Bankhead Bounce" kept people from taking the street seriously)

*Felton Drive (for Rebecca Felton)
**Summit Avenue

*Hamilton E. Holmes Drive
**Hightower Road

*Hank Aaron Drive (from Fulton Street south to McDonough Boulevard/University Avenue)
**Capitol Avenue

*Hosea L. Williams Drive
**Boulevard Drive

*Ivan Allen Jr. Boulevard (from West Peachtree Street west to Marietta Street)
**Simpson Street, Jones Avenue and Alexander Street

*James P. Brawley Drive
**Chestnut Street

*Jesse Hill Jr. Drive
**Butler Street

*John Wesley Dobbs Avenue
**Houston Street (for pioneer Oswald Houston)

*Joseph E. Boone Boulevard (as of March 24, 2008) [ [http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/printedition/2008/03/24/curve0324.html Ahead of the Curve: 911 upgrade pauses City Hall East sale | ajc.com ] ]
**Simpson Street/Road

*Rev. Dr. Joseph E. Lowery Boulevard
**Ashby Street (for Civil War General Turner Ashby)

*Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive
**Hunter Street, Gordon Road

*Metropolitan Parkway
**Stewart Avenue (renamed because of redlight district reputation)

*Peachtree Center Avenue
**Ivy Street (for pioneer Hardy Ivy)

*Peachtree Street (south of railroad gulch)
**Whitehall Street

*Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard
**Gordon Street

*Ralph McGill Boulevard
**Forrest Avenue

*Sidney Marcus Boulevard
**Marian Road

*Spring Street (south of Alabama — for Walton Spring)
**Madison Avenue
**Thompson Street (for Dr. Joseph Thompson)

*Trinity Avenue
**Peters Street (for Richard Peters)

*Washington Street
**South Collins Street

*William Holmes Borders Drive
**Yonge Street

Other street origins

*Ellis Street (for James M. Ellis)
*Baker Street (for Thomas Baker)

ee also

*Viaducts of Atlanta

References

[http://jolomo.net/atlanta/streets.html Old Atlanta Street Names]

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