List of former Atlanta street names

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Atlanta has a penchant for frequent street renamings, even in the central business district, usually to honor the recently deceased.

• Current name
  • Former name(s)

• Andrew Young International Boulevard
  • International Boulevard
  • Cain Street (for pioneer John J. Cain)

• Auburn Avenue (as of April 17, 1893)
  • Wheat Street

• Briarcliff Road
  • Williams Mill Road

• Capitol Ave (as of 1885)
  • McDonough Boulevard (for the town it eventually reaches)

• Centennial Olympic Park Drive (from North Avenue south to around Mitchell Street)
  • Techwood Drive (from North Avenue into Georgia Tech campus)
  • Walker Street (from around Mitchell Street south to Peters Street)

• Courtland Street (as of September 20, 1886)
  • North Collins Street (for pioneer James Collins — renamed because of redlight district reputation)

• Felton Drive (for Rebecca Felton)
  • Summit Avenue

• Jesse Hill Jr. Drive
  • Butler Street

• John Wesley Dobbs Avenue
  • Houston Street (for pioneer Oswald Houston)

• Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway
  • Bankhead Highway

• Hamilton E. Holmes Drive
  • Hightower Road

• Hank Aaron Drive (from Fulton Street south to McDonough Boulevard/University Avenue)
  • Capitol Avenue

• Ivan Allen Jr. Boulevard (from West Peachtree Street west to Marietta Street)
  • Simpson Street, Jones Avenue and Alexander Street

• Rev. Dr. Joseph E. Lowery Boulevard
  • Ashby Street (for Civil War General Turner Ashby)

• Metropolitan Parkway
  • Stewart Avenue (renamed because of redlight district reputation)

• Peachtree Center Avenue
  • Ivy Street (for pioneer Hardy Ivy)

• Peachtree Street (south of railroad gulch)
  • Whitehall Street

• Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard
  • Gordon Street

• Ralph McGill Boulevard
  • Forrest Avenue

• Spring Street (south of Alabama — for Walton Spring)
  • Madison Avenue
  • Thompson Street (for Dr. Joseph Thompson)

• Trinity Avenue
  • Peters Street (for Richard Peters)

• Washington Street
  • South Collins Street

[edit] Other street origins

• Ellis Street (for James M. Ellis)
• Baker Street (for Thomas Baker)

[edit] References

Old Atlanta Street Names