Lightning (Atlanta)

Lightning was a neighborhood just west of Downtown Atlanta, Georgia, north of Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive (formerly Hunter Street) and east of Northside Avenue (formerly Haynes). It was razed to make way for the Georgia Dome and for the expansion of the Georgia World Congress Center.[1][2][3]

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References

  1. ^ "Residents of Community Told They Won't Be Homeless Because of Dome", Atlanta Journal-Constitution, July 2, 1988
  2. ^ Atlanta Fire Dept. Commemorative Yearbook, p. 139
  3. ^ Jacqueline Anne Rouse, Lugenia Burns Hope, Black Southern Reformer, p.62
Former neighborhoods, districts and settlements of Atlanta, Georgia
City districts and neighborhoods
Planned neighborhoods which never materialized
Settlements absorbed into Atlanta
Shantytowns and slums