List of former Atlanta street names
From its founding in 1847, Atlanta has had a penchant for frequent street renamings, even in the central business district, usually to honor the recently deceased. As early as 1903, there were concerns about the confusion this caused, as "more than 225 streets of Atlanta have had from two to eight names" in the first decades of the city.
Many recent Atlanta street renamings commemorate prominent African Americans in Atlanta's history. These renamings can be identified by the use of the person's full name rather than the more traditional last name only.
According to local and state rules and regulations, street renamings must have support of 75% of property owners along that street, and state guides advise against using proper names as street names. However, these rules and procedures are usually ignored or waived, as demonstrated by the recent Ted Turner Drive at Historic Spring Street renaming resolution by the Atlanta City Council.
Name changes
- Current name
- *Former name
- 10th St.
- *Bleckley Ave. ; Madison
- 11th St.
- *Harrison Ave. ; Davis
- 12th St.
- *Downe St. ; Stewart
- 13th St.
- *Center St. ; Cleveland Street
- 14th St.
- *Wilson Ave.
- Andrew J. Hairston Pl.
- *Newport Street
- Andrew Young International Boulevard
- *International Boulevard
- *Cain Street
- *Magnolia Street
- Argonne Ave.
- *Bedford Place
- Atlanta Student Movement Boulevard
- *Fair Street.
- Auburn Avenue
- *Wheat Street
- Barnett Avenue
- *Kearsarge Avenue
- Benjamin E. Mays Drive
- *Sewell Road
- Briarcliff Road
- *Williams Mill Road
- *Stillwood Avenue
- Bolton Road
- *River Road, roughly parallel to the Chattahoochee River
- Broad Street
- *Bridge Street
- Boulevard
- *Jefferson Street
- *Rolling Mill Street from the late 1860s to about 1880, for the Confederate Rolling Mill, which the retreating Confederate army inadvertently destroyed in 1864
- *See also Monroe Drive below
- Cameron M. Alexander Blvd.
- *Kennedy Street
- Camilla St. SW
- * Carolina Ave
- Capitol Avenue
- *McDonough Boulevard
- Carroll Street
- *Factory Street
- Centennial Olympic Park Drive
- *Techwood Drive
- *Orme Street
- *Walker Street
- Central Park Place
- *Bedford Place
- Charles Allen Drive
- *Parkway or Parkwood Drive, prior to that Jackson St.
- Cleburne Avenue
- *Augusta Avenue
- Courtland Street
- *North Collins Street
- Crescent Avenue
- * Macon St., Old Peachtree Rd.
- Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway
- *Bankhead Highway
- *Bankhead Avenue
- *Bellwood Avenue
- *Mayson & Turner's Ferry
- Edgewood Ave.
- *Foster St.
- Euclid Terrace
- *Kuhns Street
- Eva Davis Way
- *East Lake Boulevard
- Felton Drive
- *Summit Avenue
- Fulton Industrial Boulevard
- *Carroll Road
- Hamilton E. Holmes Drive
- *Hightower Road
- Hank Aaron Drive
- *Capitol Avenue
- Hosea L. Williams Drive
- *Boulevard Drive
- Ivan Allen Jr. Boulevard
- *Simpson Street, Jones Avenue and Alexander Street
- James P. Brawley Drive
- *Chestnut Street
- Jesse Hill Jr. Drive
- *Butler Street
- John Portman Boulevard At Historic Harris Street
- *Harris Street -
- John Wesley Dobbs Avenue
- *Houston Street
- Joseph E. Boone Boulevard
- *Simpson Street/Road
- Rev. Dr. Joseph E. Lowery Boulevard
- *Ashby Street
- Leonard Tate Street
- *Bell Street
- Lindbergh Drive
- *Mayson Avenue
- Maiden Lane
- *Grove Street
- Martin Luther King Jr. Drive
- *Hunter Street, Gordon Road
- Mackenzie Drive NE
- *Garfield Place
- Memorial Drive
- *Fair Street
- Metropolitan Parkway
- *Stewart Avenue
- Monroe Drive
- *N. Boulevard
- Moreland Avenue, after Major Asbury Fletcher Moreland, father-in-law of architect Willis F. Denny. The Moreland Park community also named after him is now part of Inman Park.
- *County Line Road
- Park Avenue West
- *Foundry Street and Luckie Street
- Parkway Dr.
- * Jackson St.
- Paschal Blvd. NW
- *Jeptha
- Peachtree Center Avenue
- *Ivy Street
- Peachtree Street
- *Whitehall Street
- Peachtree Walk
- *Centre Street
- *Columbia Ave
- Piedmont Road / Piedmont Avenue
- *: Plaster's Bridge Road for Benjamin Plaster who owned land between Piedmont and Peachtree around Lindbergh. Renamed Piedmont around 1915–1920.
- *: For the 1895 Cotton States Expo, Plaster's Bridge Road south of 10th street was rerouted to connect to an extension of Calhoun Street from downtown, all of which was renamed Piedmont Avenue.
- Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard
- *Gordon Street
- Ralph McGill Boulevard
- *Forrest Avenue
- *eastern portion just west of the BeltLine was Fortune St.
- Sidney Marcus Boulevard
- *Marian Road
- Seminole Avenue
- *Augusta Avenue
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Way
- *Raymond Street
- T.P. Burruss Senior Dr. SW
- *Ashby Pl.
- Ted Turner Drive at Historic Spring Street
- *Spring Street
- **Madison Avenue
- **Thompson Street
- *Spring Street
- Trinity Avenue
- *Peters Street
- United Avenue
- *Confederate Avenue, changed in 2018 to remove references to the Confederate States of America; minor street Confederate Court off of it was renamed Trestletree Court, after the apartment complex it serves
- Washington Street
- *South Collins Street
- West Peachtree Street
- *Atwood Street
- William Holmes Borders Drive
- *Yonge Street
List of street name changes prior to 1903
On October 17, 1903, The Atlanta Constitution published the list shown below. Developer Forrest Adair had provided the Atlanta City Council this list of more than 225 streets whose names had been changed from the 1847 founding of the city up until that time. Some streets had experienced multiple renamings, bearing as many as nine different names, resulting in over 650 total names, such as:- Haynes Street, 7th name, as of 1903, formerly named: 1) Manning Street; 2) Harris Street; 3) Booths Alley; 4) Hayden Street; 5) Markham Street, and; 6) Stewart Street
- Maple Street, 9th name, as of 1903, formerly named: 1) Porter Street; 2) Proctor Street; 3) Loyd Street; 4) Rock Street; 5) Love Street; 6) Howe Street; 7) Law Street, and; 8) Back Street
Other street origins
- Baker Street
- Cone Street
- Ellis Street
- Robin Street