{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} '''Easton''' was a farming community located at the crossroads of Plaster Bridge Road (now Piedmont Road) and [[Monroe Drive]], a location where today, three [[Intown Atlanta|intown]] [[neighborhoods of Atlanta]] come together: [[Morningside-Lenox Park]], [[Piedmont Heights (Atlanta)|Piedmont Heights]] and [[Ansley Park]]. Farmers took their cotton and corn to Walker's Mill, across from what is now Ansley Mall.
Some milestones in Easton's existence:<ref>[http://tk-jk.net/mlpadotorg/History/fog0000000064.html Morningside-Lenox Park Association Archive]</ref> * 1876: train started stopping in Easton; from 1879-1931 the [[Airline Belle]] line ran between Atlanta [[Terminal Station (Atlanta)|Terminal Station]] and [[Toccoa, Georgia]] * 1888: population reaches 100 * 1904: post office closes * 1911: development begins in Ansley Park and [[Virginia Highland]] * 1911: Plaster Bridge Road paved * 1917: Plaster Bridge Road is renamed Piedmont Road
==See also== {{portal|Georgia (U.S. state)}}
==References== {{Reflist}} {{Former Atlanta neighborhoods}}
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[[Category:Former neighborhoods of Atlanta]]