Going UNDERGROUND to Understand Atlanta History
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- čas přidán 25. 10. 2019
- For years, amateur historian Jeff Morrison has been taking people under the streets of Atlanta, Georgia to help them understand the origins of the city. It’s a past that’s been largely forgotten and hidden underground, but some of the town’s railroad remnants still remain.
Jeff’s Book
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The Unseen Underground Walking Tour
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I grew up being taught that underground Atlanta was the original street level before Sherman burned the city and the reconstruction was simply built on top of the ruins.
If you go into the basement of the CNN building in Atlanta a railroad line goes right through it. Right by the buildings power transformers, switchgear, and backup generators.
This is the location that our beautiful brothers and sisters were sold on the auction blocks. Our ancestors. Black families were destroyed here. Crying babies were torn from there inconsolable mothers arms. Wives sold away from husbands. This was a place of total destruction , evil and wickedness. The residual affect is in and on every face of color and in our cells memory. May the most high continue to lift us, the true Hebrew 12 tribes of Israel. Shalom
Cool video lol look at pictures of 1989s atlanta. Almost looks like a small town before all the highrise condos and midtown was built up.
High speed rail terminus would be nice but that’ll never happen
Excellent. Atlanta has torn down too many ties to the past. Once these structures are gone, they are gone forever.
Do more old Atlanta abandoned history
One of the only things i hate about atlanta is the fact development goes over keeping historic landmarks just like the the actual underground atlanta where we could shop but i think it all started when they tore down the georgia dome.
Shame no one wants to remember the past which created Atlanta. My father and grandfather worked for the railroad in this area and now nothing remains of the past. This is typical of America compared to many European countries.
It just looks godawful now. I wish they would have preserved it better
That gulch was a huge, "Iron Triangle," as they called it then, of tracks that connected Terminal and Union Stations. They could turn entire passenger trains there.
This is history. The under ground Atlanta makes sense to me now
I did a construction job in Atlanta and we dug up a piece of the rail road
My dad loved railroads and lived in Atlanta area for many years. I don't think he ever saw these areas. Wish he was still alive to see this video. Thanks
I love the industrial and railroad history of all the big cities. I worked a very small shortline in Chicago that had CRI&P trackage rights so got to go pretty much everywhere, it was very cool.
Number 2 Peachtree building is over the old Peachtree Arcade and the basement still has the marble and wrought iron fixtures
My family had a metal fabrication business from 1991 until late 2011. There are so many things I can still point out that we built or repaired over the years. My father passed away of a heart attack while quoting a job at the ground floor of the Wall Street parking deck which is part of the gulch. I spent a lot of time with him there working on jobs. Miss him every single day and thankful for the impact he made on Atlanta.
The beautiful historic station Terminus was replaced with the ugly Richard (yawn) Russel thing. Clark Gable and most of the cast of GWTW arrived at that station for the premier.
Thank You
I remember going there with my dad, in the mid 60’s, to the basement entrance to his office. It was easier to park there.