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By Jennifer Goad Cuthbertson,Philip M. Cuthbertson

either the local of provide Park and the 131-acre park take their shared identify from railroad government Lemuel P. provide. The park was once a present to town of Atlanta from supply and was once designed by way of John Charles Olmsted, the stepson of Frederick legislations Olmsted. It turned an city haven the place humans got here to �take the waters� from its ordinary springs, canoe on Lake Abana, and walk the winding pathways within the pastoral park. a local sprang up round this oasis and was once full of houses that have been designed within the spirit of Victorian painted women, Craftsman bungalows, Queen Anne, and New South cottages. In 1979, the buildings in the local and park have been put on the nationwide sign up of ancient Places.

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