Peachtree Street is the main north-south street of Atlanta, Georgia. The city grew up around this one street, and many of its historical and municipal buildings are or were located along it. Running from downtown to Midtown and on through Buckhead, it is for Atlanta what Broadway is for New York City: the proverbial and legendary heart of the city. A street in Ynysybwl, Wales, typical of a small town A street is a public parcel of land adjoining buildings in an urban context, on which people may freely assemble, interact, and move about. ... Nickname: The Horizon City, Hotlanta, The Big Peach Official website: http://www. ... Sydney, Australia at Night. ... History is often used as a generic term for information about the past, such as in geologic history of the Earth. When used as the name of a field of study, history refers to the study and interpretation of the record of human societies. ... A municipality or general-purpose district (compare with: special-purpose district) is an administrative local area generally composed of a clearly defined territory and commonly referring to a city, town, or village government. ... Building is either the act of creating an object assembled from more than one element, or the object itself; see also construction. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Midtown Atlanta is a district in Atlanta, Georgia situated between the commercial and financial district of downtown to the south and the affluent residential, shopping, and nightlife district of Buckhead to the north. ... Buckhead (sometimes Buckhead Village and denoted on some signs as Buckhead Community) is a community, comprised of several neighborhoods, forming roughly the northern one-fifth of Atlanta, Georgia. ... A view of Broadway in 1909 Broadway, as the name implies, is a wide avenue in New York City, and is the oldest north-south main thoroughfare in the city, dating to the first New Amsterdam settlement. ... New York, New York redirects here. ...

In 1907, Peachtree Street contained streetcar, horse, and automobile traffic.

Historically, Atlanta grew up on a site occupied by the Creek people, and the "peachtree" street was, in fact, not named for a peach tree of any sort, but for a large Creek settlement called Standing Pitch Tree after a tall lone tree. Reportedly, the Creek used trees with fresh pitch (the sap of a pine tree) for solemnizing vows and treaties. The "pitch tree" was corrupted to "peach tree", perhaps by mistake, or because it sounded better to English speakers. While peaches are so widely feral they seem native to northern Georgia and the Atlanta area, and though Georgia is the "Peach State", there was apparently no historical peach tree that led to the name. Peachtree St, Atlanta 1907 Library of Congress This image is in the public domain in the United States and possibly other jurisdictions. ... Peachtree St, Atlanta 1907 Library of Congress This image is in the public domain in the United States and possibly other jurisdictions. ... The Creeks are an American Indian people originally from the southeastern United States, also known by their original name Muscogee (or Muskogee), the name they use to identify themselves today. ... A street name or odonym is an identifying name given to a street or road. ... Binomial name Prunus persica (L.) Batsch A peach dessert The Peach (Prunus persica) is a tree native to China that bears a juicy fruit of the same name. ... The coniferous Coast Redwood, the tallest tree species on earth A tree can be defined as a large, perennial, woody plant. ... The pitch drop experiment. ... Sap exuding (gummosis) from the stem of a koa tree, probably in response to surface damage Sap is the fluid carried in tubules inside a plant, circulating to distribute food and water to various parts of the plant. ... Species About 115. ... This article needs to be wikified. ... A treaty is a binding agreement under international law concluded by subjects of international law, namely states and international organizations. ... Mistake of law and mistake of fact are two types of defense by excuse, via which a defendant may argue that they should not be held criminally liable for breaking the law or liable for damages under a civil law action. ... Wyoming Mustang (feral) courtesy of U.S. BLM Wild Horse and Burro Program A feral animal or plant is one that has escaped from domestication and returned, partly or wholly, to its wild state. ... The term native as an adjective or noun has the following meanings. ...

Because of the rapid growth of the city of Atlanta, and in particular its suburban communities, visitors to the city can have trouble. A local joke is that all directions begin, "Go to Peachtree . . . . " Peachtree Street itself changes its name to Peachtree Road just north of Midtown in Buckhead and then becomes Peachtree Industrial Boulevard a few miles north of Buckhead. It has been suggested that Suburbia be merged into this article or section. ... Community is a set of people (or agents in a more abstract sense) with some shared element. ... A Visitor, in United Kingdom law and history, is an overseer of an autonomous ecclesiastical or eleemosynary institution (i. ...

The name is so popular that there are many streets with "Peachtree" as part of their name: thus there are Peachtree Creek Road, Peachtree Lane, Peachtree Avenue, Peachtree Circle, Peachtree Drive, Peachtree Plaza, Peachtree Way, Peachtree Memorial Drive, New Peachtree Road, and Peachtree Valley Road. West Peachtree Street is not the western branch of Peachtree Street, but a parallel major north-south street that is west of Peachtree Street. Others include Peachtree Battle Avenue, commemorating the Battle of Peachtree Creek, Peachtree-Dunwoody Road runs between Peachtree Street and Dunwoody, Georgia, and, finally, to top off the tourist's nightmare, Old Peachtree Street Road Highway runs to Alpharetta. Some of these streets intersect with Peachtree Street or are extensions of it, and some are nowhere near it. Not all the "Peachtrees" in Atlanta are given here. Battle of Peachtree Creek Conflict American Civil War Date July 20, 1864 Place Fulton County, Georgia Result Union victory The Battle of Peachtree Creek was a battle of the American Civil War, fought in Georgia on July 20, 1864. ... Dunwoody is a census-designated place in northern DeKalb County, Georgia. ... Alpharetta is a city located in Fulton County, Georgia, United States. ...

Author Margaret Mitchell wrote her classic Gone with the Wind in the basement apartment of a boarding house at the corner of 10th Street and Peachtree Street. In 1949 she was killed as a pedestrian crossing Peachtree Street at the intersection with 13th Street. An author is the person who creates a written work, such as a book, story, article or the like. ... Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 - August 16, 1949) was the American author who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for her immensely successful novel, Gone with the Wind, that was published in 1936. ... Gone with the Wind was an instant success. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) is a common year starting on Saturday. ... A pedestrian at the intersection of Alinga Street and Northbourne Avenue, Canberra, Australia Look up Pedestrian on Wiktionary, the free dictionary A pedestrian is a person travelling on foot, whether walking or running. ...

Atlantans are often convinced that the ridge followed by Peachtree Street is part of the Eastern Continental Divide. While Peachtree Street is atop a ridge, railroad tracks were built on the actual Eastern Continental Divide, which follows DeKalb Avenue from Decatur to Five Points, then turns southwest toward the airport, with the north side draining into the Chattahoochee or Flint Rivers and therefore into the Gulf of Mexico, and the south side eventually into the Atlantic Ocean. Atlanta's primary water source is the Chattahoochee and much of the water is pumped over the watershed. To balance the river flows, the sewage is pumped back to the Chattahoochee. The Eastern Divide or Eastern Continental Divide is a continental divide in the United States that separates the Gulf of Mexico drainage from the watersheds that flow directly into the Atlantic Ocean. ... A ridge is a geological feature that features a continuous elevational crest for some distance. ... Decatur is a city located in DeKalb County, Georgia. ... Five Points is an area of Atlanta, Georgia, the primary reference for the downtown area. ... The Chattahoochee River runs from the Chattahoochee Spring in the mountains of northeast Georgia, southwestward by Atlanta and through its suburbs, then turns southward to form the southern half of the Georgia/Alabama state line. ... The Flint River is an approximately 150 mi (240 km) long river, in the U.S. state of Georgia. ... Gulf of Mexico in 3D perspective. ...

External links

• Peachtree street: Take Another Look (GPB)
• Driving in Atlanta
• Fort Peachtree replica