page_title: Fifth Ward (Atlanta)
section_title: 1874
hierarchical_section_title: Fifth Ward (Atlanta) / 1874
context_page_description: Atlanta's Fifth Ward encompassed mainly what is now the part of downtown and midtown between the west side of Peachtree and the Western and Atlantic Railroad.
context_section_description: A new city charter increased the radius of the city from one to one and a half miles, reduced the number of wards back to five and created a bicameral council of two councilmen from each ward and a second body of three at-large aldermen was established.
  The new Fifth ward layout was from Pryor and tracks north-east to Peachtree, then West Peachtree to city limits, south-west to Foundry and W&A RR and east to origin. Two councilmen would be elected from each ward each year.
  In late 1875, an ordinance passed where each year one councilman would be elected from each ward for a two-year term. The first year, 1876 just had one citywide alderman and a single councilman from each ward, and they would be fully staffed two years later.
caption: Fifth Ward in purple (1874 to 1883)
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