Cascade Heights Post Office
From its 1949 storefront origins to its 1969 International Style facility, the Cascade Heights Post Office has anchored the community for decades.
Delowe Drive SW
Originally named to honor civic matriarch D. Lowe Wilson Pitts for her 1930s beautification of Cascade Rd, this street was phonetically merged into “Delowe Dr.”
Fire Station No. 25
Built in 1949 to protect Atlanta’s postwar suburbs, Fire Station No. 25 survived annexations and budget cuts before its modern rebirth on Benjamin E. Mays Drive.
Utoy Springs
Located near modern I-285, Utoy Springs evolved from an 1836 stagecoach stop into a 1920s recreational retreat, a brutal penal camp, and a suburban enclave.
Battle of Utoy Creek
Fought in August 1864, the Battle of Utoy Creek was defined by a bitter Union command dispute, massive earthworks, and a devastating Federal defeat.
Ponder Realty Company
Operating out of a dedicated field office on Cascade Road, John M. Ponder utilized brass bands and relentless marketing to sell the 1920s Atlanta suburban dream.
Bootleggers and Speakeasies
Long before paved highways, the dense forests of Atlanta’s Cascade corridor served as a battleground for moonshiners, rum-runners, and high-speed police raids.
Nat McWhorter
Operating out of a rooming house under the Courtland Street viaduct, Nat McWhorter ruled Atlanta’s Prohibition underworld through moonshine and police payoffs.
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 utility.
John H. Zaring Sr.
Driven by grief, tuberculosis, and entrepreneurial ambition, the Zaring family spent over six decades bottling mineral water and shaping Cascade Springs.
Cascade Springs
Today spanning 135 acres of old-growth forest, Cascade Springs evolved from an active Civil War battleground and 1920s resort into a protected nature sanctuary.
Kenmore Parks
Platted directly opposite the John A. White municipal golf course in 1939, Kenmore Parks offered pre-war buyers custom brick homes with no city assessments.
Cascade Manor
Developed at the terminus of the Whitehall-Beecher streetcar line, Cascade Manor used the 1939 “Talking Home” phenomenon to spark a pre-war housing boom.
Beecher Hills
Carefully platted across 253 acres in the late 1930s, Beecher Hills was built directly over visible Civil War earthworks to create a tranquil neighborhood.
Cascade Heights
Launched in 1924 as a sprawling 800-lot suburban retreat, Cascade Heights transitioned from a segregated enclave into a highly organized, civically engaged community.