Cabbagetown

Cabbagetown is on the Beltline just south of the currently completed section and will be surrounded by a loop path of the Beltine. The community of Cabbagetown grew up around the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill, which began operations in 1881, and now is loft space with skyline views along active rail lines. Multiple stories surround the name Cabbagetown, one is that the mostly transplanted poor Appalachian residents, largely of Scots-Irish descent, employed by the mill would grow cabbages in the front yards of their houses, so that one could distinctly smell the odor of cooking cabbage coming from the neighborhood. A variation of this legend is that a Ford Model T took a sharp turn at one of the main intersections of Cabbagetown, flipped, and spilled its cargo of cabbages across the street. (Jenni Girtman/ info@atlantaeventphotography.com)