A tlanta Memorial Park once saw part of the bloody 1864 Civil War Battle of Peachtree Creek, as Confederate forces tried to keep the Union noose from tightening on Atlanta.
Historic markers dot the area.
Now the sprawling acres along Peachtree Creek are one of Atlanta's great parks, offering tennis, golf and other recreation facilities. Its golf and tennis centers are named for two beloved legends in those sports. The park land was a gift to Atlanta in 1929 from former Sen. Hoke Smith, J.W. Bedell and the Howell family, for whose ancestors Howell Mill Road was named. Actual development of the park began in 1933 to mark the bicentennial of the founding of the state of Georgia in 1733. Its original design envisioned it as a memorial forest, and many of the specimen trees originally planted still shade parts of the landscape.