The Beautiful Restaurant
Founded in 1979 by The Perfect Church, The Beautiful Restaurant pioneered healthy soul food and transformed into a culinary and civic anchor of SW Atlanta.
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.
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.
John A. White Park and Golf Course
Born from a bitter 1920s political battle, Atlanta’s John A. White Park survived a 1930 graft scandal, a Depression-era default, and 1990s environmental protest.
Wey-Con Company
Operating as the primary financial engine behind Southwest Atlanta’s 1920s expansion, Wey-Con purchased the raw acreage for Cascade Heights and Beecher Hills.
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.
Dr. Charles R. Adams
Physician, politician, and county commissioner, Dr. Charles R. Adams used New Deal relief funds to steer public park investments toward private suburban tracts.
George L. Wilson
Operating out of his Cascade Road office, George L. Wilson utilized political alliances and 99-year restrictive covenants to engineer suburban SW Atlanta.
Fulton County Botanical Gardens
In the late 1930s, civic leaders attempted to build a 459-acre botanical wonderland on Gordon Road, a New Deal dream ultimately clear-cut for industry.