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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Atlanta Streetcar (redirect from Sweet Auburn Market station)
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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History of Atlanta (section Rise of Sweet Auburn)
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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