Ponce City Market

This guide to Ponce City Market in Atlanta starts with a sulphurous mineral spring that nineteenth-century visitors believed could cure them, and the doctor who named it after a Spanish explorer's mythical fountain. You'll hear how that belief built a forty-seven-acre amusement park on the site, complete with a Ferris wheel, an ostrich farm and a four-acre lake crossed by lit-up electric gondolas. It follows the park's fade through the nineteen-twenties and Sears' arrival in nineteen twenty-four, when the warehouse now overhead rose atop the buried spring.