Grant Park

Grant Park was named for Col. Lemuel P. Grant (1817-1893), a pioneer railroad builder and public-spirited citizen of Atlanta, who donated 87.5 acres of this area to the city for a park on May 17, 1883. An additional 44 acres acquired by purchase from Col. Grant increased it to 131.5 acres on April 4, 1890. Grant Park has the national distinction of being the location of one of the few extant cycloramas, whose subject memorializes the major engagement fought by Confederate and Federal forces in the environs of the city, the Battle of Atlanta, July 22, 1864.

Atlanta, Georgia · United States