Oakland is an officially recognized neighborhood of Atlanta consisting of only four blocks. It is bounded by:
- the Downtown Connector freeway on the west, across which is Downtown Atlanta and the Georgia State Capitol building
- Grant Street on the east, across which is one block of the Grant Park (Atlanta) neighborhood and then the historic Oakland Cemetery (Atlanta)
- Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and the Grant Park (Atlanta) and Capitol Gateway neighborhoods on the south
- the MARTA east-west rail line on the north[1]
Oakland contains the disused Corey smokestack; Mattress Factory Lofts, site of the former Southern Spring Bedding factory, with some buildings built as far back as 1864;[2] and Crown Candy Lofts.
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Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, Georgia
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References
- ^ "NPU W", City of Atlanta Archived November 29, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Mattress Factory
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