Tuesday, March 30, 2004
I'm just starting to do some research on the house me & my lady live in. It's in an Atlanta neighborhood called Grant Park - many of the homes built in the late 1800's. Our house is actually in more of a transitional area between Grant Park & another neighborhood called Cabbagetown. The house was listed as being built in 1920, but one thing we noticed was that the house doesn't match any of the other homes on the block. Most of the houses are rowhouses, most built for the nearby mill in Cabbagetown - but our house looks more like a typical southern farm house.
Thanks to Georgia State University's Pullen Library I found a variety of information regarding our home available online. First off here is a clipped image of the area we live in from a bird's eye view portrait of Atlanta from 1892:
Not much development at this point, but our street had been laid & there are a few houses around. Next is a Sanborn fire insuarance map from 1911. 19 years later our neighborhood has mostly filled in and includes our house - 9 years before it was supposedly built. It also shows different addresses from the present date.
From that address I did a search and found a genealogical page for a Civil War veteran born in 1832 that had moved from his Dekalb County farm to our address. We're not certain when he moved but he was living there based on the 1910 & 1920 census. That push's our house to sometime before 1910 & also opens up a possiblity that he had a small farm before the row houses were built. We have noticed that there are several pecan trees in our neighborhood - maybe he had a small orchard?
Another interesting image is from a 1949 aerial flyover of the City of Atlanta for the planning department.
This would most likely be the last view of a unified Grant Park, before I-20 plowed through the neighborhood in 1960. We've spoken with a few of our neighbors who have lived in the area all their life - one man talked about going to school nearby - where the freeway is. Lastly, here is a map of the 1949 aerial image georeferenced with present day streets:
You can see I-20 took up a block wide swath. Sometime we'll visit the Atlanta History Center to do some research but I'm pretty satisfied knowing at least this much of our home.
Thanks to Georgia State University's Pullen Library I found a variety of information regarding our home available online. First off here is a clipped image of the area we live in from a bird's eye view portrait of Atlanta from 1892:
Not much development at this point, but our street had been laid & there are a few houses around. Next is a Sanborn fire insuarance map from 1911. 19 years later our neighborhood has mostly filled in and includes our house - 9 years before it was supposedly built. It also shows different addresses from the present date.
From that address I did a search and found a genealogical page for a Civil War veteran born in 1832 that had moved from his Dekalb County farm to our address. We're not certain when he moved but he was living there based on the 1910 & 1920 census. That push's our house to sometime before 1910 & also opens up a possiblity that he had a small farm before the row houses were built. We have noticed that there are several pecan trees in our neighborhood - maybe he had a small orchard?
Another interesting image is from a 1949 aerial flyover of the City of Atlanta for the planning department.
This would most likely be the last view of a unified Grant Park, before I-20 plowed through the neighborhood in 1960. We've spoken with a few of our neighbors who have lived in the area all their life - one man talked about going to school nearby - where the freeway is. Lastly, here is a map of the 1949 aerial image georeferenced with present day streets:
You can see I-20 took up a block wide swath. Sometime we'll visit the Atlanta History Center to do some research but I'm pretty satisfied knowing at least this much of our home.
Monday, March 29, 2004
This blog post will summarize how all future posts will be. I will state something humerous & perhaps irrelevant. I will then follow that comical statement with a topic that is of great concern to me. With that said I will issue an impassioned plea on behalf of that topic. Of course, my views will be fresh and provide a unique insight to a topic that may be overlooked or a view that has not been voiced.
You will most likely come to my post on a regular basis to not only laugh, but to appreciate my heartfelt view on a certain subject. With that noted, you will respect me and view me as a member of the hip internet elite that you so badly wish to be associated with. But you know full well that is unobtainable, my greatness is not measured by my greatness, but how I am not even aware of my own greatness.
With that said, a little background information on me. I was born in a traveling Mexican circus where my dad was a knife thrower and my mother performed tricks of her own. I spent many a night crying, as I often was forced the task of removing knives from volunteers from the audience. When I was old enough I moved to America, where I enlisted in the armed forces. The past 15 years of my life is shady, as I was in special ops - I can say very little, except I resigned under a cloud of controversy over my refusal to participate in 'Operation Kill John Ritter'.
That said I live in an abandoned refrigerator (the large kind) near my workplace where I give handjobs to pets of wealthy couples. My computer is a cardboard box attached to some string which I use for my DSL connection. Please forgive me I am unable to post sometimes, but I do plan on getting another cardboard box to use for my computer.
I would like to thank Ben for setting me up, it is an honor to know the creater of blogs, despite his struggle with autism.
You will most likely come to my post on a regular basis to not only laugh, but to appreciate my heartfelt view on a certain subject. With that noted, you will respect me and view me as a member of the hip internet elite that you so badly wish to be associated with. But you know full well that is unobtainable, my greatness is not measured by my greatness, but how I am not even aware of my own greatness.
With that said, a little background information on me. I was born in a traveling Mexican circus where my dad was a knife thrower and my mother performed tricks of her own. I spent many a night crying, as I often was forced the task of removing knives from volunteers from the audience. When I was old enough I moved to America, where I enlisted in the armed forces. The past 15 years of my life is shady, as I was in special ops - I can say very little, except I resigned under a cloud of controversy over my refusal to participate in 'Operation Kill John Ritter'.
That said I live in an abandoned refrigerator (the large kind) near my workplace where I give handjobs to pets of wealthy couples. My computer is a cardboard box attached to some string which I use for my DSL connection. Please forgive me I am unable to post sometimes, but I do plan on getting another cardboard box to use for my computer.
I would like to thank Ben for setting me up, it is an honor to know the creater of blogs, despite his struggle with autism.
Sunday, March 28, 2004
Testing 1,2,3...
