Woodruff Park

[2][3] It was later revealed that Robert W. Woodruff had donated the funds for the park and it was renamed in his honor in 1985.

[4] In 1995, during the lead-up to the Centennial Olympic Games, the International Peace Fountain was constructed in the park.

[7] A bronze sculpture, Atlanta from the Ashes (The Phoenix), depicts a woman releasing a phoenix, a symbol of Atlanta's rise from the ashes after being burnt to the ground by William T. Sherman's Union armies during the Civil War.

[9] The sculpture was designed by James Seigler, sculpted by Gamba Quirino, and fabricated by Feruccia Vezzoni[10] in 1969.

Atlanta from the Ashes (The Phoenix) was originally located on a viaduct adjacent to the first Rich's Department store on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, S.W.