The Atlanta Women's Club is one of the oldest non-profit organizations in Georgia. Listen to this week's episode to learn about their organizer, Rebecca Douglas Lowe, the lasting legacy of the club in Atlanta's history and their headquarters, the Wimbish House.

Links:

https://people.umass.edu/mchangam/Files/Black%20Women's%20Club%20Movement.pdf

https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1059&context=eps_diss

https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=3625&context=gradschool_dissertations

Photos:

Rebecca Douglas Lowe

(courtesy of GFWC)

Wimbish House

In 1881, Jacob Elsas built the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill and the neighboring mill worker neighborhood, now called Cabbagetown. The two are intrinsically link and have great histories.

Links:

https://www.allofitp.xyz/

https://www.amazon.com/Contesting-New-South-Order-1914-1915/dp/0807849731/ref=mp_s_a_1_3/139-1043212-8837558?ie=UTF8&qid=1541771234&sr=1-3&refinements=p_27%3AClifford+Kuhn&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&dpPl=1&dpID=51n4sD-r7pL&ref=plSrch

https://www.gofundme.com/help-the-patch-works-save-history

Jacob Elsas:

(Breman Museum)

Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill:

Elsas Mausoleum:

We're back with two more downtown Atlanta hotels! First up? Hotel Row, the city's most intact row of commercial structures in the oldest business district. Second, the Imperial Hotel, home of the seeing Domino Lounge and currently a preservation win.

Links:

http://www.atlantatimemachine.com/downtown/imperial_list.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQjf_gC0TrU

Terminal Station:

Terminal Hotel:

Hotel Row:

Imperial Hotel:

Reynoldstown is a Atlanta neighborhood from the 'other side of the tracks', founded by newly-freed slaves in the 1860s. Just like all of Atlanta, the area is changing so rapidly, that the history of this incredible community is in jeopardy. Join me this week as a I share why I love Reynoldstown and learn the unique stories it has to share.

 1892 Aerial:

IP Reynolds building:

John F. Faith Elementary:

IP Reynolds Elementary:

Atlanta's High Museum is one the more modern structures in the city's history, but the story of it's origins go back more than a century. Today were talking about the beginnings of Atlanta's art scene and how the museum, in it's current form, came to be.

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Atlanta has a long and complicated history of incarceration. This week, we're talking about three places still around today - in some form or another. The Atlanta Stockade, the Federal Penitentiary and the Old Prison Farm. 

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