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Peachtree Street is the main street of Atlanta. Beginning at Five Points in downtown Atlanta, it runs north through Midtown; upon entering Buckhead, its name changes to Peachtree Road. Much of the city's historic and noteworthy architecture is located along the street, and it is often used for annual parades (such as the Atlanta St. Patrick's Day Parade and Atlanta Christmas Parade), as well as one-time parades celebrating events such as the 100th anniversary of Coca-Cola in 1986 and the Atlanta Braves 1995 World Series victory. ==History== Atlanta grew on a site occupied by the Creek people, which included a major village called Standing Peachtree. There is some dispute over whether the Creek settlement was called Standing Peachtree or Standing ''Pitch'' Tree, corrupted later to ''peach''. Pine trees, common to the area, were also known as pitch trees due to their sap.〔(Franklin M. Garrett, ''Atlanta and Environs'', p. 8 )〕 A trail known as the Peachtree Trail stretched from northeast Georgia to Standing Pitch Tree along the Chattahoochee River.〔()〕 The original Peachtree Road began in 1812 at Fort Daniel located at Hog Mountain in present-day Gwinnett County and ran along the course of the trail to the Chattahoochee. Some portions of the present road trace this route. After the American Civil War a shantytown named Tight Squeeze developed at Peachtree at what is now 10th Street in Midtown Atlanta. It was infamous for vagrancy, desperation, robberies of merchants transiting the settlement.〔(''Atlanta and Environs: A Chronicle of Its People and Events, 1820s-1870s'', p.746, Franklin M. Garrett )〕〔(''Wicked Atlanta: The Sordid Side of Peach City History'', p.19, Laurel-Ann Dooley )〕 In 1867, the name of Whitehall Street, the original road to White Hall Tavern in today's West End neighborhood, was changed to Peachtree Street from Marietta Street south to the railroad crossing (now "gulch") just north of Alabama Street.〔(Franklin M. Garrett, ''Atlanta and Environs'', p. 746 )〕 Later in the 1980s,〔('"Atlanta Time Machine'' )〕 the portion of Whitehall Street from Five Points south to Forsyth Street and Memorial Drive, a major shopping district from the Civil War through mid-20th century, was renamed Peachtree Street SE. In 2007, Atlanta mayor Shirley Franklin unveiled a $1 billion, 20-year plan to transform Peachtree Street with streetscape upgrades, public parks, buried utilities, and the addition of a streetcar, based on a sixteen-month study by the Peachtree Corridor Partnership task force.〔(DONSKY, MARIA SAPORTA, "A new Peachtree for $1 billion",''Atlanta Journal-Constitution'', February 14, 2007 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peachtree Street」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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