Sweet Auburn Works
Atlanta
Sweet Auburn is home to businesses, residents, and institutions, including the National Park Service, Georgia State University, and a number of churches.
More than 1 million+ visitors come each year to visit the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site.
GSU’s 30,000+ students pass through this neighborhood every day on their way to class. New businesses have opened, with more on the way. And investors are eyeing properties in the neighborhood with plans to invest.
We are also home to the Atlanta Streetcar , which provides a convenient way to travel between the Sweet Auburn historic district, the heart of downtown Atlanta, downtown attractions, and Georgia State University.
Brown Boy Bottling Company was the nation’s first black-owned soft drink firm.
The National Medical Association , the first organization representing African American physicians and health professionals in America, was founded at the First Congregational Church in 1895.
Big Bethel AME Church , the first African-American church in Atlanta, the congregation dates back to at least 1847, became an AME church after the Civil War.
C.C. Hart, one of the founding investors of Mutual Federal Savings and Loan Co., was the first licensed black plumber in Atlanta.
WERD Atlanta was the first radio station owned and operated by African-Americans, starting in 1949.
The Atlanta Daily World , founded in 1928 and became a daily in 1932, was the first successful black-owned daily newspaper in America.
Programs
- SPARK Innovation Lab
- Reconnecting Sweet Auburn
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