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It began as an inn called Whitehall and by the 1830s that structure became the area's first post office and voting place. In 1845 when Marthasville, Georgia was renamed Atlanta, voting and postal functions were both moved from Whitehall. Following the American Civil War the area was home mainly to railway laborers driven out of Atlanta by the high cost of living and as late as 1876 there were only 150 households most of which were laborers (the only well-known name is Jonathan Norcross ). By the built large estates here and when they came, the Main Street of Gordon Street became a bustling commercial district. Growth continued well into the twentieth-century, but the intown problems that Atlanta faced in the 1960s and 1970s hit the West End particularly hard. By the 2000s , much of it still looked blighted but a few bright spots were popping up due to a wave of investment in intown Atlanta beginning to rejuvinate the area. The biggest tourist spot here is Joel Chandler Harris 's estate called The Wren's Nest and the Mall At West End . It has a MARTA railstop on the South Line also called West End and the Atlanta University Center or ( AUC ) which consists of Spelman College , Morehouse College , and Clark Atlanta University umong others. REFERENCES NRHP site |
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