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This website, "Windows into English Avenue and Vine City," offers views into the past and present of these historic Atlanta neighborhoods. It was developed over the course of two months as a class project at Emory University. The history is not intended to be comprehensive but based on the limited research we were able to compile in short time.

You can learn about English Avenue and Vine City via the windows on this homepage, or you click on the timeline link below to browse stories by title.

Be sure to visit the About page to learn about the project's creation and future.

$55

Est. Cost in Millions to Restore the Bowl and Rebuild Mims Park

234

Address on Sunset Avenue of Former King Family Home

60

The Number of New Homes for which George Prather Solicited Financing

2007

The Year that Sunset Avenue became a Historic District

40%

Number of Foreclosed Houses in English Avenue

$8

Cost in Millions of Georgia Dome Trust Fund

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$1.2

Cost in Billions of Current Budget for the Stadium Proposal

300

The Number of Free Blankets Leading to Hector Black's Arrest

$34

Amount in Millions Paid for Two Prominent Churches in Vine City

$30

Millions of Community Development Funds Related to Falcons Stadium

50

Square Feet in Thousands of Former Eng Ave Elementary School

8

Number of Churches forming the Vine City Health And Housing Ministry

1952

The Year Reverend Cottrell arrived in Vine City

3

Years that Ivory Lee Young Jr. Has Been in Office

12,000

Members of Antioch Baptist Church in 2010

17

Age you must be to see Snow on tha Bluff

5-10 ¢

Cost of a Copy of the Vine City Voice

2

Distinct Visions of Development

7/18

Date in 1989 of VC Demonstration at Democratic National Convention

2013

Year When Redeemer Community Church is Planted in Vine City

1971

Year that J. Otis Cochran Graduated from Yale Law School

1 in 8

Chance in Vine City of Becoming a Victim of Violent Crime

$35

Raised in Thousands to Provide Rent-free Homes to 2 Police Officers

3

Sides of the Police Seen During Race Riots

22

Students that Interviewed Residents in 1989

57

Years that Mrs. Mabel Austell had lived in Vine City in 1988.

1979

Inception of MLK/Ashby Business Assosication

11/12

Date of English Avenue Annual Festival of Lights in 2013

$5

The Prize for a 1967 Checker Tournament in Vine City