WILLIAMS' ATLANTA DIRECTORY, CITY GUIDE, and Business Mirror. Contains also a List of Post Offices, in thh United States, Corrected up to Date. VOLUME 1. —1859-'60 ATLANTA: M. LYNCH, SUCCESSOR TO WM. KAY, 1859. PREFACE. We present our first issue of the Atlanta Directory with the belief that it will be found as nearly accurate as any book of the kind can possibly be. The growing importance of the City demands that its popula¬ tion and business should be represented in this shape, and the com¬ piler expresses the hope that this volume will be the first of a long series. It depends upon the public spirit of the business men and the pa¬ tronage they extend to the enterprize, to determine whether the publication shall be continued. The publisher begs to extend to the subscribers to the present vol¬ ume, his sincere, thanks for their liberality; also, to G. B. Hay- good, Esq. for the sketch of Atlanta, furnished for this volume CONTENTS. Atlanta, (Sketch of) 10 Alphabetical Arrangement of Names, 35 Banks 25 Benevolent Institutions, 24 Boundaries of Wards, 20 Business Mirror 150 Church Directory, 22 City Government, 21 City Guide 16 County Officers, 32 Fire Department, 23 Index to Advertisements, 7 Insurance Companies and Agencies, - - 27 Masons, - 24 Military 29 Odd Fellows, 24 Post Office 125 Preface 3 Public Buildings, Halls, etc 26 Miscellaneous, .. 31 Newspapers and Periodicals, 28 Street Directory, 15 Temperance, 24 INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS. AUCTION & COMMISSION, GROCERIES. &C. Barnes W. H. & Co,,... 160 Davis J. C ATTORNEYS AT LAW. 33 LovejoyJ. H 82 Bell & Pittman 98 HAIR WORKER, Haygood Greene B 54 BARBER, Braumuller Mrs. H • 44 HARDWARE &C. Beerman Charles 92 Clarke Sc.Lewis 79 BOOKS, STATIONERY, &c. McArthor, Kay's Burr &AVadsworth.. 82 Book Store, 62 Wallace R. C, BOOTS, J. & H 88 SHOES &C. HATS, CAPS &C. Dimick, Wilson & Co 56 Holbrook J. M 66 Dunning R. S 78 HOTEL, Eddleman & Banks 72 Trout House 42 BURIAL CASES, IRON WORKS. Robinson L 98 Atlanta Machine Works 86 CANDIES, &C. Wioship I. & R. & Co 36 Immel P. J 96 LOTTERY CARRIAGES, OFFICE, Georgia Lottery Gardner State 76 H. B 80 LUMBER, &C. May Robert H. & Co 96 Pitts & Cook 70 CHINA, GLASS & QUEENSWARE, MARBLE WORKS, Ripley T. R 100 Oatman S. B 80 CIGARS, TOBACCO &C. Suramey & Hurlick 84 Muhlenbrink H 92 MUSIC, JEWELRY, Ficken &C. John..... 74 Braumuller H « 44 CLOTHING, FURNISHING GOODS, &C. NEWSPAPERS. Cleveland's 58 Atlanta Intelligencer Herring 102 W. & Son 50 Temperance Crusader 40 Lawshe & Purtell 8 Medical and Literary Weekly 46 Mayer David 66 Southern COLLECTOR, Confederacy 48 Medical and Surgical Journal 52 Clarke Lewis H 66 Masonic Signet and Journul..? 54 DENTISTS, NURSERY, Brown P. H 80 J. Downing Hill Nursery 98 Craven E. J. & W. R <56 PIANO FORTES, Thurman F. D B 98 arth & N icolai 42 DRY GOODS. &C. PRINTING. Beach & Root 64 Atlanta Intelligencer 102 Cutting J. L. <fc Co ., 68 Crusader Office 40 DRUGS, MEDICINES &C. Miller J. I. & Co 94 Giovannini & Venaglia 92 Reynolds Messrs 38 Hunnicutt & Taylor 70 SADDLES, HARNESS &C. Massey &. Lansdell 74 Miller & Andrews 96 Smith & Ezzard 90 SAFES, EXPRESS CO. Herring W. & Son.. 50 Adams Express Co 34 SEWING MACHINES, FURNITURE, Levden A 86 Gray John D 100 WINES & LIQUORS, Williams F. A 04 Wittgenstein M 83 FURS, SKINS &C. Zachry Bertrand 86 LAWSHE & PURTELL, 4Mi*, (Eassimeits and Nestings, OF THE VERY BEST QUALITY, Always on hand, they make up to measure the latest * which will in style, and WARRANTED A GOOD FIT. GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING GOODS, Of all the latest styles and patterns of fabric and finish. THEY HAVE FOB SALE THE CELEBRATED Agents for the sale of MASOMIC REGALIAS. Also, Agents for the sale of GROYER & BAKER'S SEWING MACHINES, SKETCH OF ATLANTA. Atlanta is situated seven miles east south-east of the Chattahoo¬ chee River, on the dividing ridge between the waters of the At¬ lantic and the Gulf of Mexico; on the 34th parallel of north latitude, at an elevation of one thousand and fifty feet above the level of the sea. The Ocmulgee River, which flows to the Atlantic, has its source in the central part of the city. The head spring of South River, its principal tributary, being located within the Railroad Reserve near the present passenger depot, its precise spot being now indicated by the large perennial cistern, between* the House and the Holland Macon and Western Depot, on the south side of the railroad track; while Walton Spring, an early celebrity of the place, situated a little north of the road, flows into the Chattahoochee, und thence to the Gulf of Mexico; so that here in the heart of the city, the marriage of the waters of the Atlantic and the Gulf might have been celebrated high in air, by our own engine companies, drawing their supplies the while, from the natural fountains, flowing thence to their far distant destinations in the bosom of the Atlantic and the Gulf. But Charleston must needs go to Memphis, that old Ocean, pent up in hoops and staves, may be received into the embraces of his Amazon bride, and the ""father of waters" is shorn of his glory, and is changed into a huge "water station" on the road to the West. On the 21st of December, 1836, the Legislature of Georgia pass/ d an Act authorizing the construction of a railroad com¬ munication by the State, from some point on the Tennessee line, subsequently extended to the Tennessee River, to some point on 2 LO SKETCH OP ATLANTA. ;he south-eastern bank of the Chattahoochee River, which should 3e most eligible for the extension of branches thence to other mportant points in Georgia. The present site of the public depot was located sometime afterwards, by Wilson Lumpkin, Ex-Governor of the State, upon the recommendation of the Chief Engineer, Mr. C. F. M. Garnett. The station was called " Terminus " prior to Decem¬ by ber 23d, 1843, when the place was incorporated the name of Marthasville, in compliment to Miss Martha Lumpkin, daughter of his Excellency, Govenor Lumpkin, and whom we thus recog¬ nise as the early matro-nymic of the thrifty, bustling village, the embryo city. In the short space of four years the village had outgrown the expectations of its early inhabitants, and had be¬ come too fast, too gross, too great and too pretentious to wear any longer, with maidenly modesty, the name of its fair matro- nymic; a change was demanded, and on the 29th of December, by 1847, it was incorporated as a city the name of Atlanta* a name which is understood to have been proposed by J. Edgar Thompson, at that time Chief Engineer of the Georgia Railroad. The signification of the name, the reasons for its adoption, and the various theories on the subject have now become a theme of inquiry and investigation not without interest. The writer has heard it claimed as due in honor to a mythological goddess, At¬ lanta, said to have been remarkable for fleetness, strength and endurance. It was certainly a fast town then, and may have by been supposed entitled to the honor of a recognition the god¬ dess, by reason of its early character, and its wonderful achieve¬ a ments. The infant has become giant, and is rapidly overcom¬ ing the obstacles to its growth and prosperity, and making the surrounding country, and neighboring villages, all tributary to its prosperity, permanency and celebrity. The name was for a short time written Atalanta, which seems' to favor the claims of the goddess. An orator of no mean pretentions, claimed for it the signification of " A city among the hills," while a shrewd of writer has declared that it was the opposite " rus in erbi," and proclaimed it " the city in the woods." And its commercial and geographical position has recently procured for it the ap¬ pellation of " The Gate City." by And still another theory is set up some who claim for it an origin more worthy of its present importance as a railroad entrepot, and commercial emporium, taken in connection with as its future prospects a great railroad centre, and manufacturing city. The great State work, connecting the western waters witfi the Atlantic, commencing, at Chattanooga on the Tennessee Ri¬ ver and terminating at this point had been nearly completed. SKETCH OP ATLANTA 11 The name " Western and Atlantic Railroad " had been given to it by the Legislature Georgia, of and it was not inaptly consid¬ ered the great connecting artery, through which must pass the incalculable mass of produce, manufactures and commerce from the great valley West, of the and the Atlantic coast, and the im¬ ports from abroad passing thence to the far West. Atlanta had been permanently fixed as the south-eastern ter¬ minus of that great State work, and gave a local idea to its east¬ ern terminus, and that idea represented or qualified by the adjective Atlantic, was incomplete of itself, but clearly pointed to something definite, more and the mind is put upon the inquiry for the thing signified. The connections by rail from Charles¬ ton by way of Augusta, and from Savannah by way of Macon, had both been completed to this point. These roads had been gradually ascending the hills from the coast, in search of a "north-west passage," they had searched the hills upon which the city stands, and here they met the Western and Atlantic road, just emerging from the wilds of the north-west, seeking by a sinuous and difficult ascent from the Western Valley, for a highway to the Atlantic.