Category: Parks & Greenspace

  • Fulton County Botanical Gardens

    In the late 1930s, civic leaders attempted to build a world-class, 459-acre botanical wonderland on Gordon Road, a New Deal dream that was ultimately clear-cut for industrial zoning.

  • Adams Park

    Sculpted from local granite by WPA laborers in the 1930s, the 158-acre Adams Park was shaped by New Deal politics, real estate controversies, and a landmark 1955 Supreme Court battle that desegregated municipal golf.

  • Cascade Springs

    Today spanning 135 acres of old-growth forest, Cascade Springs evolved from an active Civil War battleground and John H. Zaring’s 1920s mineral water resort into a protected nature sanctuary in Southwest Atlanta.