Cascade Mural Key
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Cascade Mural Key The Wells Fargo Community Mural Program is dedicated to creating unique, custom-designed, historical artwork that respects the community’s legacy, celebrates its diversity, and honors the past upon which the community was founded. Kenan Research Center, at the Atlanta History Center • Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division • Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division • Wells Fargo Corporate Archives Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, minister, Atlanta University students, c. 1899. Decades A family outing in Fulton County, c. 1899. Mount Gilead Campground near educator, sociologist, and activist, later, in 1962, students from this school and By the late 1960s, the Cascade neighborhood Ben Hill, c. 1954. The revival camp served as president of Morehouse others would protest a barricade placed on was predominantly African-American meetings held here from 1835 until 1989 College from 1940 to 1967. A high Peyton Road, opening up the segregated and soon became home to many of the drew thousands from all denominations school and boulevard in Atlanta’s residential area to African American families. movers and shakers in Atlanta’s African to southwest Atlanta. Cascade neighborhood are American community. named in his honor. The area now known as Cascade was mostly View of Adams Park Lake Illustrated map of the City of Atlanta, drawn A train at Union Station in Atlanta, c. 1935. rural farmland throughout the 19th century. in Atlanta’s Cascade Heights and published by A. Ruger, 1874. The springs Atlanta was established in 1837 at the Today, it is home to many notable residents, neighborhood, 1954. near the Sandtown Road crossing over intersection of two railroad lines, and the city including former Atlanta mayor Shirley Turkeyfoot Creek was the origin of Cascade rose from the ashes of the Civil War to Franklin, baseball legend Hank Aaron, and Heights, or simply Cascade. become a national center of commerce. former UN Ambassador Andrew Young. Map of Atlanta and Wells Fargo’s diamond sign Advertisement for Wells Fargo express money By 1918, Wells Fargo had 10,000 oces from “Ocean to vicinity, prepared for the signaled express wagons to orders, c. 1889. Ocean” and “From over the Sea.” Western and Atlantic stop for parcels and identified R.R. Co., 1887. company oces worldwide. Questions? Comments? We would like to hear from you! Please contact [email protected]..