West End

This guide to Atlanta's West End neighborhood follows Richard Peters and George Adair, who in 1871 bought a dormant rail charter for almost nothing and laid track from Five Points out toward a sleepy country crossroads. It traces how their mule-drawn streetcar turned a stagecoach tavern stop into one of the country's earliest commuter suburbs, and how the line grew to fifteen miles of track by 1889. Look around this block for the wide streets and spacing that streetcar left behind.