While former residents of Cabbagetown reading this post might never have thought of it this way, Cabbagetown is one of the most physically beautiful and human scaled neighborhoods Atlanta has ever seen.
It was originally a mill village adjoining the Fulton Cotton Spinning Company (later Fulton Bag) built
by Jakob Elsas in 1881. Elsas chose a location just east of downtown on the Georgia Railroad line.
Jakob Elsas was another late 19th Century Atlanta figure who left a lasting impact on the state. In addition to founding the mill and Cabbagetown, he was instrumental in the founding of the Georgia Institute of Technology,
and his son Oscar was in the tiny first Georgia Tech graduating class.
I've taken a number of photos in Cabbagetown over the past week, and there are so many gorgeous houses and rows of houses there that deciding which houses to photograph, and then narrowing down those photos is a major undertaking. Cabbagetown is a neighborhood worth spending some time wandering.
I've created a photo album, called Cabbagetown.
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