Candler Park is a neighborhood in intown
Atlanta, in zip code 30307, about 5 minutes east of downtown and just south of
Ponce De Leon Avenue. This
National Register of Historic Places neighborhood is one of Atlanta's first suburbs and was founded as
Edgewood in 1890.
The neighborhood is home to many talented people, great shops, bars, and everything eclectic.
It's a family-friendly neighborhood with a focus on walkability and livability.
The Candler Park
Neighborhood Organization (CPNO) exists to support the neighborhoods interests, and has been around since
1971. CPNO bylaws are available here.
Here are some nice Candler Park photos, courtesy of JoJo
Ross. Here is atlanta-midtown.com's
Guide to Candler Park and here is the
Wikipedia entry about Candler Park.
Candler Park Neighborhood Organization puts on an annual festival in Candler Park known as
Fall Fest. This is popular festival attended by 10,
000 people, and includes a great band line-up, artists' market, children's activities,
5K road race, tour of homes, and more. Fall Fest is the most recent in a long tradition of Candler Park festivals.
History
Candler Park has a rich and interesting past.
Read about CPNO's history here. You can check out some old maps and images in this Flickr gallery.
Candler Park has undergone many changes over the past century, and aspects of its history have been forgotten along the way.
Thanks to recent research by the
Early Edgewood-Candler
Park BiRacial History
Project, we can now add another dimension to the Candler Park of decades past: including the rich history of its
African American working class neighborhood, and probing local racial dynamics of the
100+ years since the neighborhood was founded.
- published: 06 Jan 2015
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