Pre-Ferrari Era: Fulton Cotton Mill shut down all operations just in time for America’s Bicentennial in 1976, and the neighborhood experienced a sharp decline in opportunity that would last two decades.
When news came that the Seaboard System Railroad had plans to develop a piggyback facility in the area, the response was mixed. Many local residents, such as Leon Little of Little’s Grocery, believed this would create jobs. The construction of a large retaining wall was less popular in juxtaposition to the neighborhood’s tiny shotgun cottages, but the Urban Design Commission and Bureau of Cultural Affairs (now Office of Cultural Affairs) moved to integrate beautification plans into the design. Artist Steve Seaberg and local activist Esther Peachy Lefevre proposed and implemented a series of ceramic mosaics, fired with Georgia clay on Esther’s kiln at the Patch (now Agave).
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