Neighborhood around Fulton jail making history again as former Pres. Trump surrenders

The site of the Fulton County Jail in northwest Atlanta off Marietta Boulevard and Jefferson Street was historic long before the events of Thursday. The neighborhood around it is also well known.

A starting point and an ending point. In 1864, what is now known as Howell Station was reduced to ashes.

Beth Arnold tells Channel 2′s Berndt Petersen that folks who live in the northwest Atlanta Howell Station community have a keen sense of history.

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“The people I know in this neighborhood learned that this was all railroad properties,” Arnold said.

Historians say the place was put on the map when Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman took it off the map.

Federal troops burned it down during the Battle of Atlanta. Railroads were being rebuilt by the end of the 19th century.

Some of that is now the Atlanta BeltLine. The community is named after Evan Park Howell.

Howell was a Confederate captain who served as Atlanta’s mayor from 1903 to 1905.

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Knight Park dates back 130 years. There’s the historic King Plow building, and some neighborhood streets still lined with 90-year-old bungalows.

Over the course of the 20th century, it was a place that experienced integration, segregation, and integration again. Arnold has always loved Howell Station’s diversity.

“I like that there are people who are different from me. I like to get a different perspective,” Arnold said.

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