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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. WESTVW_061010_081.JPG: Joel Chandler Harris
2. WESTVW_061010_084.JPG: Joel Chandler Harris: Born Eatonton, Georgia, December 9, 1849. Died Atlanta, Georgia, July 3, 1903. "I seem to see before me the smiling faces of thousands of children, some young and fresh, and some wearing the friendly marks of age, but all children at heart -- and not an unfriendly face among them. And while I am trying hard to speak the right word, I seem to hear a voice lifted about the rest saying: You have made some of us happy. And so I feel my heart fluttering and my lips trembling, and I have to bow silently and turn away. And hurry back into the obscurity that fits me best."
3. WESTVW_061010_098.JPG: Battlefield of Ezra Church, July 28, 1864: From this point, extending three-fourths mile eastward, the Confederate troops of Brig. Gen. John C. Brown's and Maj Gen. Henry D. Clayton's divisions (seven brigades) of Lieut. Gen. Stephen D. Lee's Corps, formed in line of battle. From this line, they moved northeastward, driving the Federal skirmishers from the ridge just north of the old Lick Skillet Road (Gordon Road), and pressed the assault upon the Federal 15th Corps, posted three-fourths mile northeast of this point. Failing to dislodge the Federals, another assault was made by Maj. Gen. E. C. Walthall's division (three brigades), of Lieut. Gen. Alex. P. Stewart's Corps. Night ended the battle and the Confederates withdrew to the city fortifications. This was Gen. John B. Hood's third attempt to halt Gen. Sherman's drive upon Atlanta.
4. WESTVW_061010_102.JPG: Ezra Church marker
5. WESTVW_061010_125.JPG: Marker for trench line remnants behind some trees here
6. WESTVW_061010_135.JPG: Water tower
Wikipedia Description: Westview Cemetery
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Westview Cemetery, located in Atlanta, Georgia, is the largest cemetery in the South East, comprising over 582 acres (2.36 km2), 50% of which is undeveloped. Westview includes the graves of more than 100,000 people.

History:

The land that would become Westview Cemetery was the site of a portion of the Battle of Ezra Church, a Civil War battle. The cemetery was established in 1884 on Atlanta's west side when Oakland Cemetery was mostly filled out. Over 582 acres (2.36 km2) were purchased by a private corporation, headed by E. P. McBurney. The main gate is one of the oldest standing structures in Atlanta.

Westview Cemetery at one time had a "strict requirement that all who came there- both visitors and permanent residents- be white."

Structures:

* Westview Abby (Mausoleum and Chapel)
* The Receiving Tomb
* The Water Tower

Famous Burials:

* The entire Adair Clan
* Ivan Allen Jr., Mayor of Atlanta
* Jim Bagby, Sr., the first pitcher to hit a home run in a modern World Series
* Asa Candler, businessman, owner of Coca-Cola
* Dolla (rapper), Rapper
* Hugh M. Dorsey, Governor of Georgia from 1917 to 1921.
* James Douglas Edgar, golfer, winner of the Canadian Open
* Keith Eubanks, radio and commercial voice-over artist
* Y. Frank Freeman, American film company executive for Paramount Pictures
* Henry W. Grady, journalist and orator
* L.P. Grant, for whom Grant Park is named.
* Joel Chandler Harris, newspaperman and author of "Uncle Remus"
* William Berry Hartsfield, Mayor of Atlanta
* the founders of furniture retailers Haverty's & Rhodes
* Alice Hawthorn, victim of the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing
* Donald L. Hollowell, civil rights attorney
* Vivian Malone Jones, civil rights activist
* Ralph Emerson McGill, journalist and civil rights leader
* Arthur James Moore, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church
* Isaac Newton Ragsdale, Mayor of Atlanta
* Frank Lebby Stanton, first poet laureate of Georgia, lyricist of "Just Awearyin' for You"
* Charles Davis Tillman, early influence on southern gospel music
* Robert Shaw, conductor of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
* Rankin M. Smith, Sr., businessman, philanthropist & owner of Atlanta Falcons
* Robert Woodruff, businessman, President of Coca-Cola
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