Introduction

Topography, Trails, and Standing Peachtree

War Roads, Squatters, and the 1821 Land Survey

Wagon Roads, Railroads, and Atlanta

The Air Line Railroad

Formalizing the Peachtrees

Looking for the Road to Standing Peachtree

Sources of Information

 

 

 

These web pages are an expanded version of a paper presented at the Preserving Historic Roads Conference 2014 in Savannah, Georgia. They are presented here for your amusement and edification and not for commercial use.

Tommy H. Jones Atlanta Georgia 2020

 

 

 

Public Records

DeKalb County, Inferior Court, Minutes, 1823-1853. Microfilm, Georgia Archives.

DeKalb County, Superior Court, Record of Deeds and Mortgages, 1843-1853, microfilm, Georgia Archives.

Fulton County, Superior Court, Record of Deeds and Mortgages, 1853-1890, Fulton County Courthouse and on microfilm, Georgia Archives.

State of Georgia, Records of the state's surveyor general, Record Group 003-03-024, District Surveys, 1821, Georgia Archives.

United States, Federal Census, 1820-1940.

 

Maps

Carey, Matthew. "The State of Georgia," Carey's general atlas, improved and enlarged : being a collection of maps of the world and quarters, their principal empires, kingdoms, &c." [1814] New York Public Library Digital Collections. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items
/24e82000-c603-012f-a87b-58d385a7bc34

Early, Eleazar. Map of the State of Georgia. Savannah: 1818. Map. Retrieved from Historic Maps, Surveyor General, RG 3-8-65, Georgia Archives, http://vault.georgiaarchives.org
/cdm/ref/collection/hmf/id/19

Kauffman, I. U. Kauffman's Map of the Borough of Atlanta and Adjacent Territory, with annotations by Franklin Garrett. The Atlanta Historical Bulletin I, no. 8 (1934).

Koch, Augustus, Hughes Litho. Co, and Saunders And Kline. Bird's eye view of Atlanta, Fulton Co., State capital, Georgia. [n.p. Saunders and Kline, 1892] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/75693189/.

Meyer, William Edward. "Indian Trails of the Southeast," Forty-second Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian, 1924-1925, pp. 727-854. Map. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1928.

Pittman, Daniel, William Phillips, and J.L. Smith Co. Map of Fulton County, Georgia. Philadelphia: J.L. Smith Map Publisher, 1893. Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2012593666/.

Romans, Bernard, John Gerar, William De Brahm, and Robert Sayer And John Bennett. A general map of the southern British colonies in America, comprehending North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, with the neighboring Indian countries, from the modern surveys of Engineer de Brahm, Capt. Collet, Mouzon, & others, and from the large hydrographical survey of the coasts of East and West Florida. London, Printed for R. Sayer and J. Bennett, map, chart, and printsellers, 1776. Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/gm71005467/.

Ruger, Albert. Birds eye view of the city of Atlanta, the capitol [sic]of Georgia. [St. Louis, Mo, 1871] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/73693339/.

United States Army Of The Cumberland. Topographical Engineers Office. Atlanta: from Vincent's subdivision map, published by the City Council. [Chattanooga, Tenn.?: Topl. Engr. Office, Hd. Qrs. A. C., in the field, 1864] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2006459234/.

United States Geological Survey. Georgia, Atlanta sheet, surveyed in 1887-1888, edition of Sept 1895.

United States War Department, George B Davis, Calvin D Cowles, and J. A Caldwell. Atlas of the war of the Rebellion giving Union and Confederate armies by actual surveys by the Union and Confederate engineers, and approved by the officers in command, of all the maps herein published. New York: Atlas Pub. Co, 1892. Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2009581111/.

Vincent, Edward A. Vincent's subdivision map of the city of Atlanta, Dekalb County, state of Georgia: showing all the lots, blocks, sections, &c. [Savannah, Ga.: Edward A. Vincent, 185 ] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item
/2006635244/.

 

Published Sources

Barnwell, Hanleiter, et. al., Atlanta City Directory, facsimile copies, 1867, 1870-72, 1874-1875, 1877-1878, 1881, 1891-1892, 1896-1899, 1902-1908, 1913-1914, 1916, 1919, 1921-1923, accessed online at https://sites.google.com/site/onlinedirectorysite/Home/usa/ga/fulton.

Cooper, Walter G. History of Fulton County. Atlanta, GA: W. W. Brown, 1934, reprint 1978.

Crimmins, Timothy J. "The Atlanta Palimpsest: Stripping Away the Layers of the Past," The Atlanta Historical Journal 26, No. 2-3 (Summer/Fall 1982).

D'Angelo, James J. "A New Take on an Old Story: Fort Daniel, Fort Peachtree, and the Road that Connected them. " The Heritage 42. no. 3. Gwinnett County Historical Society.

____ "The Original Peachtree Road and Why It Was Built." History. FortDanielFoundation.org. Web. 12 September 2017.

DeVorsey, Louis."Indian Trails." New Georgia Encyclopedia. Accessed on line at http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/indian-trails, 5 April 2014.

Doyle, Tony. "The Standing Peachtree," at http://bleufalcon.org/access/name.htm, accessed 19 November 2013.

Flanagan, James C. History of Gwinnett County Georgia 1818-1943 Vol. 1. Lawrenceville, GA: 1943, facsimile reprint by Alice Flanagan, 1995.

Garrett, Franklin. Atlanta and Environs, 2 Vols. (University of Georgia Press, 1954).

____________. "A Short History of Land Lots 105 and 106 of the 17th District of Fulton County, Georgia" in two parts. The Atlanta Historical Journal 27, No. 1-2 (Spring and Summer, 1983).

Goff, John H. Placenames of Georgia. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1975.

_________. "The Hightower Trail," The Collections of the DeKalb Historical Society 1. Decatur: Ga, 1951.

_________. "Path to Oakfuskee, Upper Trading Route in Georgia to the Creek Nation," Georgia Historical Quarterly 39, No. 1. Savannah, GA: 1955.

_________. "The Sandtown Trail," The Atlanta Historical Bulletin 11, no. 4 (December 1966).

Hemperly, Marion R. "Major Indian Trails in Georgia." Map, Georgia Department of Archives and History, 1979.

______________ Historic Indian Trails of Georgia. Atlanta, GA: Garden Club of Georgia, 1989.

Hudgins, Carl T. "DeKalb County Indian Trails," The Collections of the DeKalb Historical Society Vol. 1. Decatur, GA, 1951.

Hudson, Angela Pulley. Creek Paths and Federal Roads: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves and the Making of the American South. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

Klima, Don. "Breaking Out: Streetcars and Suburban Development, 1872-1900," The Atlanta Historical Journal 26, no. 2-3 (Summer/Fall 1982).

Kurtz, Wilbur G. "Standing Peachtree," Early Georgia 1, no. 5 (Fall 1950): 31-42.

Lane, Mills, ed. The Rambler in Georgia: Desultory Observations on the Situation, Extent, Climate, Population, Manners, Customs, Commerce, Constitution, Government, etc., of the State from the Revolution to the Civil War Recorded by Thirteen Travelers. Savannah, GA: Beehive Press, 1973.

Meyer, William Edward. "Indian Trails of the Southeast," Forty-second Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian, 1924-1925, pp. 727-854. Map. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1928.

Mitchell, Eugene M. "The Story of the Standing Peachtree," The Atlanta Historical Bulletin I no. 2 (January 1928): 8-19.

Newton, Milton B. Jr. "Relic Roads of East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana," Geographical Review. Vol. 61, No. 2 (April, 1971), 250 -264.

Price, Vivian. The History of DeKalb County, Georgia, 1822-1900. Fernandina Beach, FL: Wolfe Publishing Co., 1997.