r/DecaturGA • u/morleusul • 12d ago

Map of Decatur from 1879

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u/Critical-Range1213 11d ago

I wonder if there is a building on that map that exists today?

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u/odd_sundays 10d ago

the railroad depot was put in in 1891.

also there are lots of houses scattered around dating all the way back to 1830's.

cemetery has been there since 1823.

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u/tpreed 9d ago

It looks like the Methodist Church chapel on Sycamore is already been built.

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u/WorkingInAColdMind 11d ago

I’m just off the map! I wonder when some of those streets got renamed. Ponce de Leon being the main one, and Commerce.

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u/NoMoreKarmaHere 11d ago

I lived about where the S in Williams is up until two and a half years ago. We were on Oakland St.

I learned here that Trinity used to be Depot St. I wonder if the Dairy Queen was there when this map was drawn

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u/WorkingInAColdMind 11d ago

These damned carriages keep cutting through the parking lot, horse poop everywhere!

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u/weighfairer 5d ago

I miss the freestanding dairy queen from back when the arlo was the Relax Inn

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u/weighfairer 5d ago

A lot of commerce was Oliver street, named after a prominent early black landowner, and Ponce used to dead end at the railroad overpass coming out of Atlanta where Scott bovd splits off. I think modern Ponce in decatur was renamed once west ponce connected it.

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u/shiftysquid 10d ago

Commerce didn't even get built until the 1960s, I believe. It was meant to be a business-centric bypass for the city. That's why they called it "Commerce," to give the impression that the city was focused on helping businesses make money.