E. Van Winkle Gin and Machine Works

One of the largest cotton-related industrial sites in the South, the E. Van Winkle Gin and Machine Works is a complex of industrial buildings on an 11-acre site serviced by three separate rail lines in northwest Atlanta. Built between the ...

Rhodes Memorial Hall

Rhodes Memorial Hall was originally the home of furniture magnate Amos Giles Rhodes. This 1904 Romanesque Revival building was inspired by the Rhineland castles Amos Rhodes admired on a trip to Europe in the late 1890s. Rhodes was born in ...

The Temple

The Temple has served as a center for Atlanta's Jewish cultural, educational and social activities since its construction in 1931. It is the home of the city's oldest Jewish congregation--the Hebrew Benevolent Society, established in 1860 to serve the needs ...

Peach Tree Southern Railway (Brookwood Station)

Peachtree Southern Railway, now known as Brookwood Station, is the last passenger terminal in Atlanta, a city which owes its existence to railroads. Representing a fine example of a suburban railroad terminal, it is the work of the eminent Atlanta ...

Brookwood Hills Historic District

Brookwood Hills is a well-defined residential area that incorporates the major architectural, landscape, and planning elements of suburban development of the early 1920s. In 1912, Benjamin F. Burdett and a partner had purchased approximately 50 acres of land from the ...

Beth El Cemetery

In 1869, when Simerall Goldbach donated land to Temple Beth El for a Jewish cemetery, Beth El's founding president Gerson Forcheimer received the deed. The earliest grave is for one of Goldbach's children, Abraham, who died of yellow fever in ...

Hillcrest Cemetery, Jewish section

At one time, Jews who died in Quincy were buried in Bainbridge, Georgia. After the Jewish cemetery opened in 1930, some of the early graves were moved to Quincy. The cemetery is maintained by the city. From Quincy, take U.S. ...

Constitutional Convention State Museum

The large outdoor monument lists the delegates to the 1838-1841

constitutional convention, including David Levy (Yulee). In the museum, animated mannequins relate the story behind Florida's first constitution and the convention that met in the city of St. Joseph, once located ...

Korean War Liberty Tree Memorial

In memory of the

men, women & POW-MIA

who fought in the

Korean War

1950 - 1953

Dedicated November 11, 2003

Marker is on Summit Street (U.S. 77) north of Maple Avenue when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Santa Fe Locomotive Engine No. 2542

(Front)

Engine 2542 was built in 1910 by the American Locomotive Company in Pittsburgh, PA., for the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway. In 1929, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway purchased the KCM & O Line and assigned this ...