Category: Institutions & Infrastructure

  • Cascade Mutual Utilities Corporation

    When corporate power monopolies refused to electrify the rural fringes of Southwest Atlanta in 1920, local residents organized their own grassroots electrical utility along Cascade Road.

  • Fulton Industrial District

    Stretching along the Chattahoochee River, the Fulton Industrial District conceals a layered history beneath its warehouses, from the ancient indigenous capital of Sandtown and brutal convict labor camps to the forgotten 1960s open-air sculpture museum.

  • Holy Family and Southwest Community Hospital

    From a 1941 Catholic clinic to the first hospital in the Southeast to integrate its medical staff, Holy Family was a cornerstone of Black healthcare. In 1972, the Fairburn Road campus became the center of a national crisis following a bitter labor strike and the shooting of two civil rights leaders.