Notable Residents

Ivan Allen, Jr.
Mayor of Atlanta from 1962 to 1970, led the city through a period of significant growth and social change

Jacob Elsas
Philanthropist and owner of the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill

Bishop Wesley John Gaines
Former slave, second pastor of Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, and founder of Morris Brown College

Joel Hurt
Neighborhood developer and founder of the first electric trolley system in Atlanta

Maynard Jackson
The first African American mayor of Atlanta serving three terms, first African American mayor of any major Southern city

Joseph Jacobs
Owner of the pharmacy where Coca-Cola was first served as a beverage in 1886

Bobby Jones
Golfer, winner of "The Grand Slam" taking the trophy for 1930 The British Amateur, The British Open, U.S. Amateur and the U.S. Open

The Lion of Atlanta guarding nearly 3000 unknown Confederate dead

Carrie Steele Logan
An ex-slave who established the first African American orphanage (The Carrie Steele-Pitts Home) in Atlanta

Margaret Mitchell
Pulitzer Prize winning author of the most popular novel ever written, Gone With the Wind

Morris and Emanuel Rich
Founders of M. Rich Dry Goods which became one of the largest retail department store chains in the South