Levi Buell Nelson was an Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia. According to the 2010 census, Atlanta's population is 420,003. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to 5,268,860 people and is the ninth largest metropolitan area in...

 city councilman, founder of the Gate City Street Railroad Company.

Nelson worked in Cortland, New York

Cortland, New York

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 then Toledo, Iowa

Toledo, Iowa

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 before serving in the Union Army during the Civil War. In 1881 he came to Atlanta with his fomer real estate partner C.P. N. Barker. They invested in farmland in Georgia. Nelson was elected to Atlanta city council and served on the sanitary, relief and water works committees. His home, "one of the handsomest homes in Atlanta" on Boulevard

Boulevard (Atlanta)

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 in today's Old Fourth Ward

Old Fourth Ward

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, then an elegant avenue of mansions, burned down in the Great Atlanta fire of 1917

Great Atlanta fire of 1917

The Great Atlanta Fire of 1917 began just after noon on Monday, May 21 and was finally extinguished by 10 PM. Destroyed were 300 acres , including nearly 2,000 homes, businesses and churches, and 10,000 people were displaced. There was only one fatality, a woman who suffered a heart attack after...

. In 1921 the 6 acre site was acquired by Atlanta Medical Center

Atlanta Medical Center

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for its present location.