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at mile 18, and heads into historic Vinings where it crosses the Chattahoochee River. This river crossing is very near the old ferry location, just down from the 1904 bridge that replaced the ferry. That first wooden bridge had been used for pedestrians since being replaced by a concrete one in the
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area. Here, West Paces Ferry Road continues under I-75 at mile 255, and heads east through some of Atlanta's oldest and wealthiest Buckhead neighborhoods. It serves as the address of the
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expressway, finished in 1993, made this a dead-end road in the early 1990s. It resumes on the other side of the tollway, along the southeastern edge of
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In modern times, Paces Ferry Road (dropping the apostrophe) is still an important east–west route across northern Atlanta.
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as well many of Atlanta's other stately older mansions and estates. Unlike many of
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Pace's Ferry Earthwork, 4075 Paces Ferry Road Northwest, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA
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runs from the center of Buckhead Village as far west as a dead-end in Paces, while
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on Clifton Road, along Haygood Drive then North Decatur Road until that hits
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begun by Hardy Pace, founded to diversify his holdings after the
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and continues to its terminus at the western end of Atlanta's
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Historic American Engineering Record in Georgia (U.S. state)
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The original Pace's Ferry Road was begun during the
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Index

ferry
Chattahoochee River
Atlanta
Peachtree Creek
Hardy Pace
northwestern
Georgia
Western & Atlantic Railroad
Chattanooga
Vinings
gristmill
railroad
Paces
neighborhood of Atlanta
Atlanta Campaign
American Civil War
Battle of Pace's Ferry
Georgia Gold Rush
stage coach
Decatur
gold country
Irbyville
Emory University
Clairmont Road
Nancy Creek
Cobb County
The Home Depot
I-285
Fulton County
city limits

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