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Start at the visitor center and then work your way around the three main sites in this historic park: the home in which the leader of the Civil Rights movement in America was born, the church where he preached and the memorial site where he is buried. A major Atlanta attraction, the park draws some 500,000 visitors each year.
The 19th-century farmhouse that once belonged to Joel Chandler Harris, the author of Br'er Rabbit and Br'er Fox.
This historical park is the final resting place for many Civil War soldiers, golfing legend Bobby Jones, and "Gone With the Wind" author Margaret Mitchell. In 2003, the cemetery began a 5-year, $15 million restoration project.
Rhodes Hall was constructed in 1904 for Atlanta businessman A.G. Rhodes. Today it is a house museum. Inspired by European castles, the mansion is made primarily of granite from nearby Stone...
Built for the 1996 Summer Olympic Games, this public park offers weekly free concerts, a dancing water fountain for the kids and a memorial quilt in remembrance of the victims of the 1996 Olympic bombing.
Margaret Mitchell's one and only novel, "Gone with the Wind," was born in an apartment in this turn-of-the-century Tudor Revival mansion. Now a museum on the National Register of Historic Places, the house offers visitors a 90-minute guided tour that tells the story of the author, the Pulitzer Prize-winning book and the making of the movie.
A beautiful Gothic-Tudor house serves as the background for an arts center with a wide array of activities.
The elegant home of Alonzo Herndon, a famous black entrepreneur at the turn of the 20th century.
The Crescent Apartments have historic significance as the home of author Margaret Mitchell between the years 1925 and 1932, where she wrote the bulk of the book Gone with the Wind which went on to make both she and Atlanta world-famous.
Not open to the public as it is now a Bed and Breakfast establishment, the Nicolson House, with its outbuilding and landscaping, recalls the late nineteenth-century suburban home.
