Third Ward (Atlanta)

Third Ward (Atlanta)

Atlanta's Third Ward was defined in 1880 as the area bounded on the North by Georgia Railroad, West by Butler & McDonough Streets, South and East by the city limits (the green section of picture)

Generally in Atlanta's Ward System, it encompassed the following modern neighborhoods: Grant Park, Ormewood Park and Cabbagetown.

1854

The original boundaries for five wards were laid out in an unknown fashion and two councilmen from each ward were elected to coincide with the completion of the first official city hall in 1854.

Third Ward councilmen of this period were
*1855 John Farrar and J. W. Thompson
*1856 Thomas L. Thomas and James L. Terry
*1857 John B. Peck and John Glen
*1858 James E. Williams and J.M. Blackwell
*1859 Coleman F. Wood and J.M. Blackwell
*1860 James R.D. Ozburn and Merrill T. Castelberry
*1861 Seymour B. Love and Robert Crawford
*1862 John Farrar and James G. Kelly
*1863 F.D. Thurman and James G. Kelly
*1864 William Watkins and Robert Crawford
*1865 Thomas R. Ripley and F.M. Richardson
*1866 Robert Crawford and James G. Kelly
*1867 W.C. Anderson and George W. Terry
*1868 (no election)
*1869 Vardy P Sisson and William C. Anderson
*1870 James G. Kelly and W.C. Anderson

1871

*1871 George Graham
*1872 Lemuel P. Grant and Thomas A. Morris
*1873 Robert C. Young and David A. Beatie
*1874 James G. Kelly and Robert C. Young
*1875 Thomas A. Morris and David A. Beatie

1876

The new city charter reduced the number of wards to 5 and created a Board of Aldermen
*1876 William Gray
*1877 J.M. Buice
*1878 William E. Hayne
*1879 James K. Thrower
*1880 Thomas J. Buchanan
*1881 David A. Beatie
*1882 Zachry W. Adamson
*1883 Samuel W. Day

1884

"Sixth Ward (north Peachtree corridor) added"

*1884 C. Wheeler Mangum
*1885 David A. Beatie
*1886 Edgar A. Angier
*1887 Elisha T. Allen
*1888 James G. Woodward
*1889 James G. Woodward and A.S. Robbins
*1890 A.S. Robbins and W.H. Hulsey
*1891 W.H. Hulsey and Arnold Broyles
*1892 John F. McWaters
*1893 David A. Beatie

1894

"Seventh Ward (West End) added"
*1894 Robert P. Dodge
*1895 Walter S. Bell
*1896 William E. Adamson
*1897 Eldred S. Lumpkin
*1898 Edward P. Burns
*1899 J. Sidney Holland, manager Kimball House Saloon
*1900 Axton C. Minhinnett, grocer
*1901 John C. Reed, lawyer
*1902 James E. Warren, lawyer
*1903 J. Sid Holland, tobacconist
*1904 Thomas H. Goodwin, lawyer

1905

"Eighth Ward (West End) added"
*1905 William Oldknow, poolroom proprietor


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