Well, off the top of my head, there is a museum, a nice botanical garden (see again "hot in August," however), Underground Atlanta, Margaret Mitchell House, the Jimmy Carter museum, the Martin Luther King house, and Stone Mountain (which might be downright surreal for an English person). There's also where the Olympics were, etc.
Maybe I should explain what Stone Mountain is. It's an enormous chunk of exposed granite that was a holy site for the native Americans that was turned into a huge Confederate monument, complete with bas-relief carvings of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, General Robert E. Lee, and Lt. General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson carved into the side. http://www.stonemountainpark.com/
Unfortunately, Atlanta was burned to the ground during the Civil War so if you're looking for really old stuff, there's not a lot older than that.
My mother-in-law was raised in Atlanta; she can probably come up with more suggestions.
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Date: 2003-03-09 03:10 pm (UTC)Well, off the top of my head, there is a museum, a nice botanical garden (see again "hot in August," however), Underground Atlanta, Margaret Mitchell House, the Jimmy Carter museum, the Martin Luther King house, and Stone Mountain (which might be downright surreal for an English person). There's also where the Olympics were, etc.
Maybe I should explain what Stone Mountain is. It's an enormous chunk of exposed granite that was a holy site for the native Americans that was turned into a huge Confederate monument, complete with bas-relief carvings of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, General Robert E. Lee, and Lt. General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson carved into the side. http://www.stonemountainpark.com/
Unfortunately, Atlanta was burned to the ground during the Civil War so if you're looking for really old stuff, there's not a lot older than that.
My mother-in-law was raised in Atlanta; she can probably come up with more suggestions.