Memorial Drive is a long road that travels from Stone Mountain to Downtown Atlanta in the U.S. state of Georgia.

East Fair Street led from the downtown commercial area to residential neighborhoods.

Suburban growth in Atlanta and DeKalb County in the late 1890s led to the creation and expansion of neighborhoods such as Grant Park and Edgewood.

An announcement came in February 1930, that East Fair Street would officially be renamed to Memorial Drive.

This drew the memorial line from Georgia’s state capitol to the "eternal temple to the Confederacy.