Easton was a farming community located at the crossroads of Plaster Bridge Road (now Piedmont Road) and Monroe Drive, a location where today, three intown

Intown Atlanta

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 neighborhoods of Atlanta come together: Morningside-Lenox Park

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, Piedmont Heights

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 and Ansley Park

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. Farmers too their cotton and corn to Walker's Mill, across from what is now Ansley Mall.

Some milestones in Easton's existence:

• 1876: train started stopping in Easton; from 1879-1931 the Airline Belle
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   line ran between Atlanta Terminal Station
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   and Toccoa, Georgia
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• 1888: population reaches 100
• 1904: post office closes
• 1911: development begins in Ansley Park and Virginia Highland
• 1911: Plaster Bridge Road paved
• 1917: Plaster Bridge Road is renamed Piedmont Road