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Atlanta - Historic sites

Things to Do: Historic sites

TripAdvisor Traveler Rating: 4 of 5 stars
TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #2 of 196 attractions in Atlanta

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.

Attraction type: Historic home; Historic site; Other
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TripAdvisor Traveler Rating: 4.5 of 5 stars
TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #3 of 196 attractions in Atlanta

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.

Attraction type: Cemetery; Mysterious site
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TripAdvisor Traveler Rating: 4 of 5 stars
TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #4 of 196 attractions in Atlanta

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...

Attraction type: Historic home; Castle
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TripAdvisor Traveler Rating: 4 of 5 stars
TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #6 of 196 attractions in Atlanta

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.

Attraction type: Specialty museum; Historic home; Museum; History museum
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TripAdvisor Traveler Rating: 4 of 5 stars
TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #10 of 196 attractions in Atlanta

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.

Attraction type: Park; Historic site; Other
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TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #32 of 196 attractions in Atlanta

The 19th-century farmhouse that once belonged to Joel Chandler Harris, the author of Br'er Rabbit and Br'er Fox.

Attraction type: Historic home; Museum
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TripAdvisor Traveler Rating: 4 of 5 stars
TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #34 of 196 attractions in Atlanta
Attraction type: Historic site; Landmark/point of interest; Religious site
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TripAdvisor Traveler Rating: 4 of 5 stars
TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #49 of 196 attractions in Atlanta
Attraction type: Historic home; Garden
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TripAdvisor Traveler Rating: 4 of 5 stars
TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #52 of 196 attractions in Atlanta

With its upscale neighborhoods and multi-million dollar mansions, the Buckhead section of Atlanta is one of the most affluent communities in town, and home to some of the best art galleries, restaurants and nightlife.

Attraction type: Neighborhood; Historic walking area
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TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #67 of 196 attractions in Atlanta

The elegant home of Alonzo Herndon, a famous black entrepreneur at the turn of the 20th century.

Attraction type: Historic home
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TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #68 of 196 attractions in Atlanta

A beautiful Gothic-Tudor house serves as the background for an arts center with a wide array of activities.

Attraction type: Historic home
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TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #87 of 196 attractions in Atlanta

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.

Attraction type: Historic home
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TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #93 of 196 attractions in Atlanta
Attraction type: Historic site
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TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #100 of 196 attractions in Atlanta
Attraction type: Park; Monument
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Located outside the Atlanta Fish Market Restaurant, this will soon be recognized by the Guinness World Records as the largest statue of a fish in the world.

Attraction type: Statue
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A giant statue of a man holding a muffler.

Attraction type: Statue
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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.

Attraction type: Historic home; Landmark/point of interest
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Attraction type: Architectural building; Historic site
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Attraction type: Educational site; Historic site
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