East Atlanta

The Sandtown-Flat Shoals Trail existed along high ground as part of a trade route system between the Chattahoochee River and the coast.

A Union cannon was placed at the intersection of Glenwood Avenue and Flat Shoals Road to protect the flank of the front line.

In 1905, lumber and railroad baron William Zuber built a large white columned frame mansion as a wedding present for his new bride on property that fronts Flat Shoals.

A post office, a newspaper, a silent movie theatre and a carriage dealership were also added to the commercial district and Baptist and Methodist congregations in the area immediately began to grow.

[citation needed] The land to the south of Glenwood Avenue was owned by former Georgia Governor Joseph Emerson Brown.

With Brown's support, a grid of streets was planned around a 13-acre (53,000 m2) public green space, a model for the "urban utopian living" that was being touted at the time.

[citation needed] After World War II the undeveloped center of the neighborhood was subdivided and developed by the Williams brothers who were born and raised in East Atlanta and had built a lumber and concrete business nearby on Glenwood Avenue.

That same year, the first phase of a public works project to enhance the pedestrian environment in the business district occurred.

[1] In 2017 the East Atlanta Community Association began efforts to include the neighborhood on the National Register of Historic Places.