Easton, Georgia

Easton was a farming community located at the crossroads of Plaster Bridge Road (now Piedmont Road) and Monroe Drive, a location where today, three intown neighborhoods of Atlanta come together: Morningside-Lenox Park, Piedmont Heights and Ansley Park. Farmers too their cotton and corn to Walker's Mill, across from what is now Ansley Mall.

Some milestones in Easton's existence:^[1]

1876: train started stopping in Easton; from 1879-1931 the Airline Belle line ran between Atlanta Terminal Station and Toccoa, Georgia
1888: population reaches 100
1904: post office closes
1911: development begins in Ansley Park and Virginia Highland
1911: Plaster Bridge Road paved
1917: Plaster Bridge Road is renamed Piedmont Road

References

Former neighborhoods, districts and settlements of Atlanta, Georgia

City districts and neighborhoods	Bedford Pine - Brownsville - Copenhill - Hemphill Avenue - Moreland Park - Murrell's Row - Washington-Rawson

Planned neighborhoods which never materialized	Peters Park

Settlements absorbed into Atlanta	Bellwood - Easton - Johnstown - Macedonia Park- Plunkett Town - Standing Peachtree

Shantytowns and slums	Beaver Slide - Buttermilk Bottom - Darktown - Jackson Row - Lightning - Shermantown - Slabtown - Tanyard Bottom

Demolished public housing projects in Atlanta - Existing neighborhoods of Atlanta