They can be found throughout the great land of Houston and they have become an integral part of the city. The restaurants are a good place to go when you are broke and don't have enough dough. Timmy Chans is a chain of restaurant in Houston, tha land of the playas and pimps. All he had to do was a low-key Google search and was shocked to find an Urban Dictionary entry: That maybe it had been in a music video? My husband’s interest was piqued. But this time, she elaborated, telling us that she’d heard a “rap person” talk about my grandparents’ restaurant in one of their songs. And after my grandparents had sold their restaurants in the 1980s, the restaurant had become a well-known quick service chain that served fried chicken and rice.Īs a child, I’d heard all this before. On one car ride, my mother casually mentioned that she had managed a couple restaurants with my grandparents. The house was used as a field hospital in the Battle of Atlanta.On my now-husband’s first visit to Houston, my parents took him to see all the “sights.” Sights for us anyway: Chinatown, our favorite dumpling spot, the strip mall where I took ballet lessons.
He also served as Dekalb County Sheriff and in the State Legislature. Powell was instrumental in promoting cordial relations with the Cherokee by providing them with lodging and medical care. The logs are “keyed” or locked, into place, making the corners of the cabin strong enough to withstand tornadoes.ĭr. It is typical of most American homes on the American frontier, serving as both a home and a medical office. It was built by Chapmon Powell, one of the country’s first residents. This little cabin is believed to be the oldest building in Dekalb County. The above is the Doctor’s Cabin DeKalb County, GA, circa 1826. The octagonal columns outside and the overhead timbers downstairs are made of hand-hewn heart pine, adding both strength and beauty to the building.
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Most of the Palladian windows still contain handmade glass. The style of the building is characteristic of the late Federal period. Bryan Allen was an English cotton broker from Savannah who probably built this home as a summerhouse. This was the manor house of the 300-acre Allen Plantation. These buildings represented the diverse lifestyles of the 18th and 19th century Georgia residents. The Antebellum Plantation is a collection of original buildings from around the state of Georgia. One of the attraction in the Stone Mountain Park is the self guided tour to the Antebellum Plantation. The facts on this post is extracted from the Antebellum Plantation Map & Guide. One of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s words of wisdom. The goal is to preserve the places where Martin Luther King, Jr. was born, lived, worked, worshipped, and is buried. National Historic Site was established in 1980. right across the front entrance of the National Park Service Visitor Center.
There is a mural depicting the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. King credited his success to the philosophy of nonviolence he learned from the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, Mahatma Gandhi, and others. and Mrs King travelled to India in 1959 as guests of Prime Minister Nehru to study the nonviolent teachings of Mahatma Ghandhi.ĭr.
I was surprised to see the Gandhi statue when we walked from the car park to the front door. Since we did not have anything planned for our last day in Atlanta, we decided to visit this historic site since we were in the neighbourhood. When driving to the Fox Brothers BBQ, we drove past the Martin Luther King, Jr National Historic Site.
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