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Underground Atlanta's first city center
View of Alabama Street, circa 1890

None of the original Atlanta building exist; most were destroyed in the Civil War. The oldest standing structure is the 1869 Georgia Railroad Freight Depot at Central and Alabama Streets. A few buildings from the late 1800s and early 1900s stand, including the Black Candy Factory (1890, 90 Pryor Street) and lower floors of the Connally Building, (1915, 54 Peachtree Street).

Atlanta's first businesses grew up on the south side of the tracks of the Western and Atlantic Railroad, chiefly along Whitehall, Alabama, Pryor, Mitchell, Loyd (now Central), and Forsyth Streets. The main intersection lay at Alabama and Whitehall (now Peachtree Street SE). Here, shoppers found dry goods stores, specialty firms, dressmakers, boot and shoe makers, jewelers, grocers, and tobacconists downstairs, and offices for dentists, lawyers, insurance representatives and railroad agents upstairs.

Whitehall Street, 1882

When Atlanta built its viaducts (raised streets) in the 1920s, the first stories of the old buildings were left in place below the new street level - hence, "underground." The lower levels were ignored for years, but in the 1960s they were developed into an entertainment district called "Underground Atlanta." Today, completely renovated and revitalized as a new city center, Underground Atlanta contains markers, murals, old street lamps, and a museum to remind visitors of the history that occurred here.
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