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    The Sweet Auburn Historic District is a historic African-American neighborhood along and surrounding Auburn Avenue, east of downtown Atlanta, Georgia...
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    Municipal Market is a historic market located in Atlanta, Georgia's Sweet Auburn Historic District at 209 Edgewood Avenue, S.W. The market operates as...
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    Oliver Goldsmith: "Sweet Auburn! Loveliest village of the plain..." Inhabited in antiquity by the Creek, the land on which Auburn sits was opened to settlement...
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    subdivision was named 'Auburn', being a reference to Goldsmith's poem 'The Deserted Village'. The poem begins: "Sweet Auburn! Loveliest village of the...
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    route is: From the King Historic Site at Jackson Street and Auburn Avenue, westbound along Auburn Avenue to Peachtree Street. North on Peachtree Street, stopping...
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    Auburn is a city in Cayuga County, New York, United States. Located at the north end of Owasco Lake, one of the Finger Lakes in Central New York, the city...
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    The land that became Mount Auburn Cemetery was originally named Stone's Farm, though locals referred to it as "Sweet Auburn" after the 1770 poem "The Deserted...
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    Whereas Mount Auburn Cemetery celebrated the 'Sweet Auburn' of poetry, in particular the nature and woodland associated with the Auburn village area,...
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  • Atlanta, Georgia. He was often referred to as the unofficial "mayor" of Sweet Auburn, the spine of the black community in the city. Dobbs co-founded the Atlanta...
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    journalism at Stanford University. His books include Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn (1996 New York Times Notable Book of the Year), a multi-generational...
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    The poem opens with a description of a village named Auburn, written in the past tense. Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain; Where health and plenty...
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    black entrepreneurs. The Sweet Auburn Springfest is an annual outdoor festival held in the historically black Sweet Auburn district. It is one of the...
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    by Oliver Goldsmith, that begins "Sweet Auburn! Loveliest village of the plain." The plat of the Village of Auburn is dated April 21, 1836, but it was...
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    and wards), is considered a separate recognized neighborhood called Sweet Auburn. The neighborhood can be divided into three areas, with Freedom Parkway...
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  • cinematographers. Filming occurred in September on Edgewood Avenue in Sweet Auburn, Atlanta, at a building constructed to stand in for a White Castle in...
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  • Jackson Street. It referred to the blocks above Auburn Avenue in what is now Downtown Atlanta and the Sweet Auburn neighborhood. Darktown was characterized in...
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    black middle class and upper class emerged. By the early 20th century, "Sweet" Auburn Avenue was called "the most prosperous Negro street in the nation"....
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  • almost went under. The video also shows some locations on Auburn Avenue, also known as Sweet Auburn, which is considered the "commercial, cultural, and spiritual...
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    Hall. Auburn, Alabama, and Auburn University were named for the first line in Goldsmith's poem: "Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain." Auburn is...
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    Ebenezer Baptist Church (category Sweet Auburn)
    Ebenezer Baptist Church is a Baptist megachurch located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, affiliated with the Progressive National Baptist Convention...
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    Big Bethel AME Church (category Sweet Auburn)
    The Big Bethel AME Church a black church on Sweet Auburn in Atlanta, Georgia. The Big Bethel AME Church was founded in 1847 as Union Church in Marthasville...
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    Castleberry Hill, Downtown, Home Park, Inman Park, the Marietta Artery, Sweet Auburn and the Martin Luther King Historic District, Midtown, Poncey-Highland...
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  • Auburn High School is a public high school in Auburn, Alabama, United States. It is the only high school in the Auburn City School District. Auburn High...
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  • APEX Museum (category Sweet Auburn)
    history presented from the black perspective. It is located on Auburn Avenue in the Sweet Auburn historic district of Atlanta, Georgia. The Apex Museum was...
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    Edgewood Avenue and from there throughout the main residential areas of Sweet Auburn, sparing little. The area between Decatur and Edgewood was crammed with...
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    construction of the Equitable, Flatiron, Empire, and Candler buildings. Sweet Auburn emerged as a center of Black commerce. The period was also marked by...
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  • the NRHP in Delaware Sweet Auburn Historic District, Atlanta, GA, listed on the NRHP in Georgia Auburn Historic District (Auburn, Georgia), listed on...
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    the protected area. The King Birth Home is located at 501 Auburn Avenue in the Sweet Auburn Historic District. Built in 1895, it sits about a block east...
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    Places; Herndon Home Alonzo Franklin Herndon home, Sweet Auburn Avenue; City of Atlanta Online; Herndon Home Atlanta Life Insurance building, Sweet Auburn]...
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    Massachusetts, and Auburn, New York, the name is from Oliver Goldsmith's popular 18th-century poem, "The Deserted Village", which begins: Sweet Auburn! loveliest...
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