Dr. Charles R. Adams

Cascade Community Club

Operating from a 1936 WPA-built stone clubhouse, the Cascade Community Club once served as the powerful civic and political engine of Southwest Atlanta.

Civic & Social Organizations

Physician, politician, and county commissioner, Dr. Charles R. Adams used New Deal relief funds to steer public park investments toward private suburban tracts.

People & Pioneers

Adams Park

Sculpted from local granite by WPA laborers in the 1930s, Adams Park survived political controversy to become the battleground that desegregated municipal golf courses.

Civil Rights & Social Justice, Neighborhoods & Subdivisions, Parks & Greenspace

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Cascade Community Club

Dr. Charles R. Adams

Adams Park