Early records
85 records for the City of Atlanta and DeKalb County on the Early map (the land before the city), each with its own page and its sources.
Cemetery 3
Church 6
- Big Bethel AME: an 1847 congregation of enslaved Atlantans18472 sources
- Immaculate Conception Church (1848/1851)parish 1848; frame church 18512 sources
- Macedonia Baptist Church (1823)18235 sourcesSources partly disagree or are secondary
- Mt. Gilead Methodist Church (1824)founded April 23, 18242 sources
- Sardis Methodist Church and cemeterytraditionally 1812; graves from the 1830s2 sourcesSources partly disagree or are secondary
- Utoy Primitive Baptist Church and cemetery (1824/1828)constituted August 15, 1824; moved here 18282 sources
Ferry 3
House 12
- Augustus Hurt plantation house (1858)1858-18641 source
- Biffle and Thomas-Barber cabins1825-1840 and 1830s1 source
- Hardy Ivy's cabin (1833)18335 sourcesSources partly disagree or are secondary
- Johnson (Ashe) House, Stone Mountain (mid-1830s)c. 18363 sourcesSources partly disagree or are secondary
- L. P. Grant Mansion (1856)18563 sources
- Mary Gay House (c. 1850)c. 1850 (a c. 1820 date is also claimed)2 sourcesSources partly disagree or are secondary
- Meadownook (Robert A. Alston House)1856-18612 sourcesSources partly disagree or are secondary
- Richard and Martha Todd homestead (1823)bought 1822; settled 1823; house burned 19105 sourcesSources partly disagree or are secondary
- Samuel House plantation house (1857)1857-584 sourcesSources partly disagree or are secondary
- Solomon Goodwin house (1831)18315 sourcesSources partly disagree or are secondary
- Swanton House (c. 1825)c. 1823-30 (sources differ); enlarged c. 18504 sourcesSources partly disagree or are secondary
- Tullie Smith farmhouse (c. 1840)c. 1840 (sources give 1835-1845)2 sources
Industry 1
Institution 4
Mill 6
- Blake's Millantebellum (John Blake, 1798-1854)2 sourcesSources partly disagree or are secondary
- Cobb's Millpioneer era; standing in 18642 sourcesSources partly disagree or are secondary
- Collier's Millantebellum2 sourcesSources partly disagree or are secondary
- Henderson's Millantebellum to 19112 sourcesSources partly disagree or are secondary
- Howell's Mills (1852)1852-18792 sources
- Moore's Mill (1854)1854-19012 sources
Native history 8
- Ice Age hunters (Paleoindian period)c. 11,250-8000 BCE1 source
- Mississippian chiefdomsc. AD 800-16003 sources
- Muscogee and Cherokee borderland1600s-18215 sources
- Soapstone Ridgec. 3000-100 BCE (dated quarry sites c. 1500-600 BCE)4 sources
- Standing Peachtreedocumented 1782; to 18213 sources
- Steatite Boulder on the Decatur squareworked 3,000+ years ago; marker 19531 source
- Stone Mountainc. 7000 BCE onward2 sources
- Woodland pottery, gardens and moundsc. 1000 BCE-900 CE2 sources
Other 1
Place name 4
- Chattahoochee: 'marked stone'explanation recorded 17991 source
- Peachtree: peach tree or 'pitch tree'?first recorded 17823 sourcesSources partly disagree or are secondary
- Sweetwater Creek (just west of the map)name of Cherokee origin (per Krakow)1 sourceSources partly disagree or are secondary
- Utoy Creekname of Native origin; in settler use by 18244 sourcesSources partly disagree or are secondary
Railroad 7
- Atlanta & West Point Railroad and East Point (1847-1854)chartered 1847; completed May 18543 sources
- Georgia Railroad arrives (1845)September 18455 sources
- Macon & Western Railroad (1846)18463 sources
- Stone Mountain depot and early granite trade (1845-1857)quarrying 1845-50; depot 18574 sources
- Union Passenger Depot, 'the Car Shed' (1853)1853-18645 sourcesSources partly disagree or are secondary
- Western & Atlantic Railroadauthorized 1836; trains to Marietta 1845; Chattanooga c. 1850-514 sources
- Zero Mile Post and State Squareterminus here from 1842 (or 1847); post set c. 1850; moved 20185 sourcesSources partly disagree or are secondary
Road 7
- Decatur-Augusta and Lawrenceville-McDonough roads at Lithoniaby the 1830s1 sourceSources partly disagree or are secondary
- Decatur-Covington roadsettled by 18351 sourceSources partly disagree or are secondary
- Flat Shoals Roadtrail origin (undated); a road by 18643 sourcesThinly sourced
- McDonough and Fayetteville roadsby 1864; earlier origins not dated here4 sourcesThinly sourced
- Montgomery Ferry Road1820s-30s (to a ferry run from c. 1821, franchised 1837)5 sourcesSources partly disagree or are secondary
- Peachtree Road, the 1813-14 military roadlate 1813 or early 18143 sourcesSources partly disagree or are secondary
- Sandtown Road stage route and Utoy post officestage route by 1828; Utoy P.O. 1836-18663 sourcesSources partly disagree or are secondary
Settlement 6
- Browning's Courthouse (Tucker)militia district from 1821-222 sourcesSources partly disagree or are secondary
- Decatur and its courthouse square (1823)incorporated December 10, 18234 sources
- Lithonia (Crossroads), chartered 18561830s crossroads; railroad 1845; chartered March 5, 18561 source
- New Gibraltar / Stone Mountain village (1839)incorporated 1839; renamed 18474 sources
- Old Cross Keysantebellum; post office moved before 18641 sourceSources partly disagree or are secondary
- Terminus stake and Thrasherville (1837-39)stake 1837; Thrasherville 18395 sourcesSources partly disagree or are secondary
Slavery 3
Survey 3
Tavern 2
Trail 5
- Hightower (Etowah) Trailpre-1800; a main road until the 1840s5 sourcesSources partly disagree or are secondary
- Peachtree Trailpre-17823 sourcesSources partly disagree or are secondary
- Sandtown Trailpre-1821; later a stage road4 sourcesSources partly disagree or are secondary
- Shallowford Trail and Roadpre-1821; 'old Shallow Ford Road' in 18645 sourcesSources partly disagree or are secondary
- Standing Peachtree Trail (reported route)undated2 sourcesThinly sourced