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.
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.