East Point

East Point is a Georgia historical marker in Fulton County, dedicated 1957.

At the intersection of Main Street and East Cleveland Avenue in East Point.

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East Point owes its origins to an 1847 Act incorporating the Atlanta & LaGrange RR (now Atlanta & West Point). The charter stated its eastern terminus should be at a convenient point on the Macon & Western RR (now Central of Georgia) between "the City of Griffin and the Town of Atlanta". This exact spot is marked by a bronze disk set in a short concrete post. East Point's charter, approved August 10, 1887, established the limits of the town from this point -- North 3/4 mile, South 5/8 mile, East and West 1/2 miles forming a parallelogram 1 3/8 miles long (N & S) and 1 mile wide (E & W).

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1838 · Georgia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1842 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1845 · Georgia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1856 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1874 · Military Operations of the Atlanta Campaign. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Georgia, 1845, covering the location of East Point, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Georgia, 1845, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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East Point

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