List of former Atlanta street names
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Atlanta has a penchant for frequent street renamings, even in the central business district, usually to honor the recently deceased.
- Current name
- Former name(s)
- Andrew Young International Boulevard
- International Boulevard
- Cain Street (for pioneer John J. Cain)
- Auburn Avenue (as of April 17, 1893)
- Wheat Street
- Briarcliff Road
- Williams Mill Road
- Capitol Ave (as of 1885)
- McDonough Boulevard (for the town it eventually reaches)
- Centennial Olympic Park Drive (from North Avenue south to around Mitchell Street)
- Techwood Drive (from North Avenue into Georgia Tech campus)
- Walker Street (from around Mitchell Street south to Peters Street)
- Courtland Street (as of September 20, 1886)
- North Collins Street (for pioneer James Collins — renamed because of redlight district reputation)
- Felton Drive (for Rebecca Felton)
- Summit Avenue
- Jesse Hill Jr. Drive
- Butler Street
- John Wesley Dobbs Avenue
- Houston Street (for pioneer Oswald Houston)
- Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway
- Hamilton E. Holmes Drive
- Hightower Road
- Hank Aaron Drive (from Fulton Street south to McDonough Boulevard/University Avenue)
- Capitol Avenue
- Ivan Allen Jr. Boulevard (from West Peachtree Street west to Marietta Street)
- Simpson Street, Jones Avenue and Alexander Street
- Rev. Dr. Joseph E. Lowery Boulevard
- Ashby Street (for Civil War General Turner Ashby)
- Metropolitan Parkway
- Stewart Avenue (renamed because of redlight district reputation)
- Peachtree Center Avenue
- Ivy Street (for pioneer Hardy Ivy)
- Peachtree Street (south of railroad gulch)
- Whitehall Street
- Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard
- Gordon Street
- Ralph McGill Boulevard
- Forrest Avenue
- Spring Street (south of Alabama — for Walton Spring)
- Madison Avenue
- Thompson Street (for Dr. Joseph Thompson)
- Trinity Avenue
- Peters Street (for Richard Peters)
- Washington Street
- South Collins Street
[edit] Other street origins
- Ellis Street (for James M. Ellis)
- Baker Street (for Thomas Baker)
