My Ancestor Once Owned “ALL” of Downtown Atlanta! Learn About My Discovery

Jeannette Holland Austin
3 min readMay 6, 2024

You can find your ancestors.

I found the above photograph in an old 1880s article published in the Atlanta Constitution. I had been searching for this home for many years. Some years ago, I discovered that Archibald Holland owned all of downtown Atlanta when I discovered that he drew 202 1/2 acres in Atlanta in 1821. That real estate…

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