Morningside/Lenox Park

Easton farmers ginned their cotton and ground their corn at Walker's Mill, across from today's Ansley Mall.

[citation needed] In 1876, Easton residents began using the Airline Belle, a steam train that ran between Atlanta and Toccoa for 42 years.

But financial problems plagued the school; in 1921 the property was sold to the Ku Klux Klan, which owned it for a year.

Ironically, the owners sold it to a Jewish group, and the structure is now part of the Congregation Shearith Israel synagogue.

Advertisements stressed a 70-foot (21 m) wide paved street in front of homes with Murphy beds and a servants' toilet in the basement.

-Mini-history of Haygood Memorial United Methodist Church (1976) Also in 1925, developer Byron C. Kistner built a row of shops on North Highland.

Original tenants included Shackleford's Pharmacy, Henry's Dry Cleaning, Rogers Brothers Grocery and an A&P.

In 1927, construction began on Morningside Shopping Center, the storefront strip on Piedmont just north of Monroe Drive.

Postwar housing shortages, coupled with FHA and VA loans, spurred more development after World War II.

Residents of heavily Jewish Washington-Rawson and Summerhill neighborhoods south of the State Capitol relocated to northeast Atlanta including Morningside - eventually those old Jewish neighborhoods were demolished to make way for the Downtown Connector freeway and what is now Turner Field and its massive parking lots.

The following year, Atlanta enacted a new city charter setting up 24 Neighborhood Planning Units (NPUs) to give residents more say in their communities.

In the late 1980s, an MLPA committee led by David Robertson undertook a "monumental" project on behalf of their neighborhood.

While thriving residential neighborhoods, an eclectic business mix and many popular establishments mark the area, the corridor remains a seedy and undesirable locale in the collective Atlanta psyche due, in part, to the proliferation of adult businesses and the unkempt nature of the corridor.

[2][3] In 2013, councilman Alex Wan introduced legislation to remove existing adult businesses from Cheshire Bridge by 2018, but this was not passed, opposed by a mix of gays, strippers and Atlanta's real estate interests – including Scott Selig.