Local Historian’s Book Tells the Tale of Atlanta’s ‘Best Street’

Sharon Foster Jones book, “Atlanta’s Ponce de Leon Avenue–A History” (The History Press, 2012), traces the evolution of the thoroughfare locals just call “Ponce”.  The 19th century discovery of two small springs near Atlanta were named for the Spanish explorer who had sought a fountain of youth three hundred years earlier.  As author Jones tells WABE’s Steve Goss, the street was named for the springs…

(Ms. Jones will be signing copies of her book on Saturday, March 24th, at 1pm, at Eagle Eye Books, 2076 N. Decatur Road, Decatur; for information, call 404-486-307)