Robert Winship was a prominent 19th century Atlanta businessman who built his fortune on the Winship Machine Company, originally built up by his father. Foundry Street in the Luckie Marietta

Luckie Marietta

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 district of Downtown Atlanta

Downtown Atlanta

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 is named for Winship's foundry.

Winship had his mansion in the Inman Park

Inman Park

Inman Park was planned in the late 1880s by Joel Hurt, a civil engineer and real-estate developer who intended to create a rural oasis connected to the city by the first of Atlanta's electric streetcar lines. The East Atlanta Land Company acquired and developed more than 130 acres east of the city...

 neighborhood of Atlanta.

His only child, Emily Carolyn Winship, would marry prominent businessman Ernest Woodruff

Ernest Woodruff

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. Winship's grandson, Robert Winship Woodruff, after whom Downtown Atlanta's Woodruff Park

Woodruff Park

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is named, would run the Coca-Cola company.