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DeKalb County in the late 1890s led to the creation and expansion of neighborhoods such as Grant Park and
Edgewood. This push for development further east extended East Fair Street to the edge of Atlanta City limits at Candler Road, allowing inclusion of the neighborhoods now known as East Lake and Kirkwood. On October 16, 1927, crews broke ground on the "Stone Mountain Memorial Drive." The groundbreaking was quite the affair, led by the Stone Mountain Memorial Association. This portion of the route was the extension from Avondale Estates to Stone Mountain. An announcement came in February 1930, that East Fair Street would officially be renamed to Memorial Drive. This drew the memorial line from Georgia’s state capitol to the "eternal temple to the Confederacy."
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642:References
607:Snellville
591:US 78
459:SR 10
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173:Fulton
167:Notes
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