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UNCLE REMUS AND THE LITTLE BOY

Remus Banks for twenty five years the servant of Mr. Harris. The little boy, Fritz Wagoner III, grandson of  Joel Chandler Harris. Atlanta Ga.

This is an Official Post Card of the Uncle Remus Assoc. that organized in 1908.

Joel Chandler Harris

Wrens Nest

Home of Uncle Remus

Murrel’s Row was a disreputable section of early Atlanta, on the north side of Decatur St., between Peachtree and Pryor St. It was named for the notorious  Tennessee murderer, John A. Murrel, who was active in Hall Co. and the surrounding area from about 1830 to 1853-56 or later. He posed as a preacher, but was said to have been the bloodiest villain of all time.

Wren’s Nest is located at 1050 Ralph D. Abernathy, this former home of Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908) is a memorial to the creator of the Uncle Remus stories. It was given this name when a wren built her nest in the mail box, and Harris built another mail box so as not to disturb her.

And many a moon will wax and wane, before we see his like again. The Rabbit will hide as he always did, and the Fox will do as he always did. But who can tell us what they say since Uncle Remus has passed away.

The southern terminus of the Western & Atlantic Railroad was incorporated as the town of Marthasville  in 1843 under a commission form of government.

The town charter was amended so as to change the name of Marthasville to Atlanta on Dec. 26, 1845.

The population was 2,000.

The Atlanta Gas Light Co.

 was established and the city

was first lighted  by gas on

Dec. 25, 1855

Slabtown was named when Jonathan Norcross put up a saw mill on the site of Decatur St. opposite Pratt St. Mr. Norcross gave slabs of wood to poor people for use in building cabins in the locality.

After the Civil War, the route along Peachtree St. from Atlanta to Buckhead became known as “Tight Squeeze.” It was narrow, crooked and heavily wooded, making traveling by wagon difficult.  This stretch of Peachtree St. between 8th and 12th Streets, looped around a 30 ft. ravine that ran east of the present day Crescent Ave. down toward Piedmont Ave. It was notorious as a haven for cut-throats and thieves, thus it became know as “a tight squeeze getting through there with ones life.” In 1887, in preparation for the Piedmont Exposition, it was eliminated by filling the ravine and straightening the course of the street. By the turn of the century, wealthy people built homes, which later gave way to office and retail business. During the 1960s and early 1970s, the area housed the South’s largest “hippie” district known as

The Strip.

For more info see

“The Strip Project”