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Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
Now long gone, Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park once served as a gathering place for weekend picnics, performances, and rides -- and as a microcosm for an emerging city with electrification, modernization, and the rise of Jim Crow.