South Broad

Portions of what is now Broad Street were originally named Market Street; the city's first market was located where the Five Points MARTA station is now (and Bridge Row was the first bridge to cross the city's railroad tracks). (Broad Street did not extend south of Mitchell until the late 1930s.) While most of the city's streets at that time were no wider than 50 feet and Peachtree was only 60 feet wide, Broad Street was 75 feet wide with 12-foot sidewalks.