https://findingtheflint.org/updates daily 0.75 2023-05-31 https://findingtheflint.org/updates/2023/5/31/10-surprises-from-the-river-inside-the-airport monthly 0.5 2023-06-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/b911d313-929e-471a-b87e-247ca7596922/IMG_0740.jpg Updates - 10 Surprises from the River Inside the Airport - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/b507f7e6-f185-4a03-aba3-6e243544bc9d/IMG_0770.JPG Updates - 10 Surprises from the River Inside the Airport - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/2c4f0883-818e-403a-9eda-f1cbe097b8c8/volunteers+After.png Updates - 10 Surprises from the River Inside the Airport - Make it stand out Photo by G Phillips for The Decisive Moment. 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Courtesy of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. https://findingtheflint.org/updates/2022/11/28/tracing-the-river-in-the-airport monthly 0.5 2022-11-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/7519f80d-05bf-4b4c-b3ef-4d5c71420c33/IMG_5202.jpg Updates - Tracing the River in the Airport - Make it stand out City as Site, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, March 2022-2023. 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Photo by Lauren Wiggins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/d8bc3cd6-f2cf-47c0-84f2-7bbc3ab389dd/IMG_4164.JPG Updates - Canoes to Pavement: A Perspective - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/3c5d4681-f7bf-4d89-afc8-ba720064a77f/dec061.jpg Updates - Canoes to Pavement: A Perspective - Make it stand out Baptizing in the Flint River (1910). Vanishing Georgia Collection, Georgia Archives, University System of Georgia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/da847495-5bc4-43b9-8b4b-0d9329906e96/image_50366721.JPG Updates - Canoes to Pavement: A Perspective - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/10b81d9e-f2ca-4676-ae76-08914acee596/Resized_20220615_105554.JPG Updates - Canoes to Pavement: A Perspective - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/20c661c4-cf5d-4fae-ae0c-d3bc580a1470/Shoalie_small.jpg Updates - Canoes to Pavement: A Perspective - Make it stand out Photo by Lauren Wiggins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/b2651d46-21d8-4eb0-87c3-cb9e8c41e800/CB63A455-7583-4160-873D-AA9580838DB2.JPG Updates - Canoes to Pavement: A Perspective - Make it stand out Ending our tour at the river’s source in East Point, Georgia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/a3e9cf3d-d459-40ee-8c8d-8d8c2278523e/IMG_4045.jpg Updates - Canoes to Pavement: A Perspective - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://findingtheflint.org/updates/2022/6/28/river-worship-in-clayton-county monthly 0.5 2022-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1657146769008-LAO8VCYWK1LX9DJT180E/IMG_1485.JPG Updates - Urban River Worship - What happens when you call it a river? What happens when you call it a river? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1657130226694-LI31CFCXWTOUCQI50L18/C278D3F8-894B-4127-A803-FE21E8EC694E.JPG Updates - Urban River Worship - About to relocate a pesky raccoon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1657130218591-E1MP5PR1VW4ZMBWK8V0I/84BF4633-6F23-43A7-92DF-6ECED2DC35EE.JPG Updates - Urban River Worship - Picnic trash or a fruit offering? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/90653956-ac12-45cd-9ae9-eedd40b1dda3/Screen+Shot+2022-06-29+at+9.54.56+AM.jpg Updates - Urban River Worship - Make it stand out Osun Festival 2021 on the Yellow River. Photo by Tabia Lisenbee-Parker, courtesy of Yeye’s Botanica. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1657152054241-195SU87OLVVU6GH9EMKX/IMG_4589.jpg Updates - Urban River Worship https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1657152063889-7R97A0XOTS3V8ZJ29UA5/IMG_4590.jpg Updates - Urban River Worship https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1657152079665-QV6OEKOEUOL5NC79YTNZ/IMG_4596.jpg Updates - Urban River Worship https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1657152086153-OUUBJ116JPZ01YJCFZX7/IMG_4593.jpg Updates - Urban River Worship https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/3c5d4681-f7bf-4d89-afc8-ba720064a77f/dec061.jpg Updates - Urban River Worship - Make it stand out Near Bainbridge, ca. 1910. Baptizing in the Flint River. Vanishing Georgia Collection, Georgia Archives, University System of Georgia. https://findingtheflint.org/updates/2022/5/19/new-trails-and-old-ruins monthly 0.5 2022-10-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/ccc203a2-23eb-49a5-b58c-f550cba9f30d/1946_Lee%27sMill.png Updates - New Trails and Old Ruins - Make it stand out Photo by Wilbur D. Kurtz, November 1946, from the Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center. Kurtz was a historian and artist who captured photos of old buildings around Clayton County from 1913 through the ‘40s. He worked as a production advisor on MGM films including Gone With the Wind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/dbda36ef-c81d-41f5-bba2-31ac9cb536e7/i-RF7bthR-X3.jpg Updates - New Trails and Old Ruins - Make it stand out Photo by Stacy Funderburke, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/a63fcb44-fbe5-4700-b512-bba1084f4cc4/19330425_Lee_Obituary.png Updates - New Trails and Old Ruins - Make it stand out Lee's Mill was owned and operated by a Clayton County pioneer family up until the death of W.L. Lee (1857-1933). Lee's obituary states that he served as the county surveyor and that "Mr. Lee's father built the old mill before the War Between the States and it is one of the landmarks in the county." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1653015787321-XGRPQER1Q872U7BAM37Q/paper+mill+sope+creek.jpeg Updates - New Trails and Old Ruins - Sope Creek Trail (AtlantaTrails.com) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1653015799705-W50K6JJVG0LH9KLSOFOZ/manchester+mill+ruins.jpeg Updates - New Trails and Old Ruins - Sweetwater Creek State Park (ExploreGeorgia.com) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1653015808606-FINB9JNS6S20H2CUON8C/mason-mill-park-south-peachtree-creek-trail-03-763x509%402x.jpeg Updates - New Trails and Old Ruins - Decatur Water Works (AtlantaTrails.com) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1653070073727-6Q9AERDOJM6WSKIZYMUU/Screen+Shot+2022-05-20+at+2.07.32+PM.png Updates - New Trails and Old Ruins - Cochran Mill Park (City of Chattahoochee Hills) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/df22a0d4-f8d1-48bf-b455-251792848e99/IMG_2319.jpg Updates - New Trails and Old Ruins - Make it stand out Items gathered at Lee’s Mill, installed as part of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport’s City as Site exhibit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/16e77fca-5219-4a59-8989-37effe8a487a/2F3151BA-1526-41EF-B75D-89F84A2DA08B.JPG Updates - New Trails and Old Ruins - Make it stand out The mill ruins in March 2022. https://findingtheflint.org/updates/2021/5/4/a-nature-preserve-by-the-airport monthly 0.5 2021-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1620147221196-M1GV0OP8INXSD46B9ZQ6/sitehistory.png Updates - A Nature Preserve by the Airport 1911 Sanborn Fire Insurance map of East Point shows Gate City Cotton Mills’ reservoir off Willingham Drive. Photo of the mill circa 1950 from Kenan Research Center, Atlanta History Center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1620146080783-J237RVGYXUUOC17QIOCP/IMG_6711.jpg Updates - A Nature Preserve by the Airport https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1620146894312-M6WFBAZ4QX5HKQM3CNVZ/CP+Site.png Updates - A Nature Preserve by the Airport https://findingtheflint.org/updates/2021/2/25/black-history-and-the-headwaters monthly 0.5 2021-02-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1614271109315-P2JICPZOERSWR3AGKEBS/Screen+Shot+2021-02-25+at+11.38.07+AM.png Updates - Black History at the Headwaters How can a future greenway trail here honor the original African American communities of East Point? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1614270143475-N27UCY0XK77OLT7C42IJ/IMG_7436.jpg Updates - Black History at the Headwaters The Red Oak Creek covered bridge was built in the 1840s. It is the oldest and longest wooden covered bridge in Georgia and the only surviving bridge of Horace King’s design. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1614274045088-E2YBIQ8RGP4NEREI1NTD/Map.jpg Updates - Black History at the Headwaters This 1927 map shows the small, segregated “Junglefoot” neighborhood situated between the railroad tracks, next to the fertilizer plants and along the Flint’s headwaters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1614270838958-ZBIC98R7HBG8206VQXAL/1952+RN+Martin.jpg Updates - Black History at the Headwaters Pastor R.N. Martin, seated, center, served as the pastor of Neriah Baptist Church for 56 years. Photo courtesy of East Point Historical Society. https://findingtheflint.org/updates/2020/9/25/watching-the-floodwaters monthly 0.5 2020-10-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1601234516489-R3YBFM7ZYDPN45Z4CN8S/DCD5C7A6-17EB-404D-BB5D-1A323F4AA1ED.JPG Updates - Watching the Floodwaters Looking downstream from the Upper Riverdale Road bridge in the aftermath of Hurricane Sally. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1601234598291-XSZ52APLTQQ5O5O6UEEH/IMG_1645.jpeg Updates - Watching the Floodwaters The flooded corner of Garden Walk Boulevard and Upper Riverdale Road, with the hospital tower in the distance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1601251854606-UDF7VYIJN2H144O30TFO/Quarry.png Updates - Watching the Floodwaters Draft concept for “Confluence Park” in north Clayton County, including the converted quarry and trails along the Flint River and Mud Creek. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1601424208670-RYFEOVVXK7NKKIXN96JC/IMG_6887.JPG Updates - Watching the Floodwaters https://findingtheflint.org/updates/2020/7/10/meet-mud-creek monthly 0.5 2020-09-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1599743664128-O2RM4LL3IDX4CFFG90V4/1903_FindingtheFlint_0029+web.jpg Updates - Finally, A Little Respect for Mud Creek An adjacent Clayton County Water Authority sewer easement runs parallel to the creek, offering a clear path for recreational trails that could link into the larger AeroATL trail network being developed by the Aerotropolis Alliance. Photo: Stacy Funderburke https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1594383788224-H4R45MN63ZO4DJE0EVBA/Mud+Creek+Visit.jpg Updates - Finally, A Little Respect for Mud Creek The Finding the Flint team, including partners from American Rivers, The Conservation Fund, and the Atlanta Regional Commission, visit Mud Creek in 2019. Photo: Stacy Funderburke https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1594383839320-V8M5VKRPIUXE8W2V2QBR/MudCreek_Rendering1.jpg Updates - Finally, A Little Respect for Mud Creek Preliminary concept rendering for a trailhead along Mud Creek. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1599755001546-WQ0380MWHVAAF1M6DTQL/IMG_1983.JPG Updates - Finally, A Little Respect for Mud Creek Kevin Osbey, Stormwater Program Director for Clayton County Water Authority, walks the walk at a clean up event on the Flint River headwaters, inside a secure area owned by the airport. Photo: Hannah Palmer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1599743800490-O8WHRAAR2225QAEHQCFW/South+Expressway+Drive+In.jpg Updates - Finally, A Little Respect for Mud Creek This creekfront property wasn’t always “undevelopable.” The old Atlanta & Florida Railroad (abandoned 1938) travelled through the site and later the South Expressway Drive-In Theater (circa 1955-1985) owned the property. As I-75 and the airport expanded, so did industrial developments, shrinking the forested area along Mud Creek to a flashy bog. Photo: Georgia State University Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1599743075055-OESDNYA09OY4Y0TQEBJK/Map.jpg Updates - Finally, A Little Respect for Mud Creek Obscured by I-75, Mud Creek flows 4 miles through a forbidding landscape dominated by industrial uses. The creek could provide a peaceful, green connection between existing schools, parks, and neighborhood destinations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1594383700167-AWFU5JTRD5OLJKSFM5GG/MudCreek_Rendering2.jpg Updates - Finally, A Little Respect for Mud Creek Preliminary concept rendering for a trailhead along Mud Creek. https://findingtheflint.org/updates/2020/7/2/a-hub-for-water-resources-at-clayton-state-university monthly 0.5 2020-07-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1594235843516-OL38N9YBNWA8QCUTPBL6/ClaytonStateResearchers.jpeg Updates - A Hub for Water Resources at Clayton State University Dr. Aubrey Dyer (center) and Dr. Ann Showalter (far right) lead students doing field work in East Point last fall. https://findingtheflint.org/updates/2020/7/1/atlantas-creative-mornings-audience-find-the-flint monthly 0.5 2020-07-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1593619119459-MSFEL73OJDJG6QDAWXY3/Screen+Shot+2020-07-01+at+11.52.12+AM.png Updates - Atlanta's Creative Mornings audience finds the Flint https://findingtheflint.org/updates/2020/6/11/a-drowning-in-the-headwaters monthly 0.5 2021-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/7ebe2e95-9012-4d3e-b073-f69381dbf701/1993+aerial.jpg Updates - A Drowning in the Headwaters 1993 aerial photo of College Park showing the location of the tragedy and the missing river. https://findingtheflint.org/updates/2020/5/16/city-of-east-point-wins-planning-grant-for-headwaters-corridor monthly 0.5 2020-05-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1589638296182-JFE4F070QDFQYLCFUSS0/FTF_Perspective+05+Before.jpg Updates - City of East Point Wins Planning Grant for Headwaters Corridor https://findingtheflint.org/updates/2020/5/14/broadcasting-the-flint monthly 0.5 2020-07-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1589637647896-A742P70FREKEXGDHP7Y1/_DSC7254.jpg Updates - Broadcasting the Flint Talking about the headwaters at the Metro Atlanta Urban Farm in College Park. Photo by Virginie Drujon-Kippelen https://findingtheflint.org/updates/2020/5/6/perspectives-on-the-shutdown-flint-riverkeeper monthly 0.5 2020-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1588782505251-1I6B2GAL860PI2UD1A8C/378A8DAE-611D-4326-ABBA-A132B717B8D0.JPG Updates - Perspectives on the Shutdown: Flint Riverkeeper Rogers paddles the “sweep” or last canoe of a group float in Upson County, Georgia in May 2019. https://findingtheflint.org/updates/2020/4/29/diy-headwaters-tours monthly 0.5 2020-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1588194771479-WCOO776LQ580NO2KQCGF/_DSC0734.jpeg Updates - DIY Headwaters Tours Clayton County Commissioner Felicia Franklin Warner finds the Flint on South Atlanta Parkway. Photo by Virginie Drujon-Kippelen. https://findingtheflint.org/updates/2020/5/5/virginie-drujon-kippelen-looking-at-the-headwaters monthly 0.5 2022-06-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1588695170935-HO32FF4UX0MUXDDI9CXJ/Virginie.png Updates - Looking at the Headwaters with Virginie Drujon-Kippelen Drujon-Kippelen planespotting on the banks of the Flint River off Forest Parkway. https://findingtheflint.org/updates/2020/4/23/perspectives-on-the-shutdown-delta-green-up monthly 0.5 2020-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1587659931475-VBQKTCU0S4EMLMKY2X82/A906C941-7729-444F-A288-9450F1CCA68C.JPG Updates - Perspectives on the Shutdown: Delta Green Up Miers, in the red shirt, summits the trash collected at our fall volunteer river clean up at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. https://findingtheflint.org/updates/2020/4/23/perspectives-on-the-shutdown-airport-sustainability monthly 0.5 2020-04-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1587663215746-D8OVAQQYUA5B6Q1ISHE7/IMG_2008.JPG Updates - Perspectives on the Shutdown: Airport Sustainability Sattler organizes clean ups of the Flint River at this site inside of the airport property. https://findingtheflint.org/updates/2020/4/17/perspectives-on-the-shutdown-birds monthly 0.5 2020-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1587657648770-P2ARKDBU8AIXQE1NIG7A/Bainbridge.JPG Updates - Perspectives on the Shutdown: Birds Ben Emanuel surveying plant and bird life (and gear) along the Flint River in Bainbridge, Georgia. Photo by Richard Milligan. https://findingtheflint.org/updates/2020/4/20/perspectives-on-the-shutdown-litter monthly 0.5 2020-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1587396281766-AC6OMVHW8C3ILOGH06P7/87252867_2871530992904505_7674483508521205760_n.jpg Updates - Perspectives on the Shutdown: Litter Kennedy (pictured second from right) at a roadside clean up in February organized with Men of Intelligence Association. https://findingtheflint.org/updates/2020/4/17/perspectives-on-the-shutdown-parks-amp-trails monthly 0.5 2020-04-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1587153731848-CDGBI171PDESPUBK0NV3/16055A33-019B-451B-9488-70824F73BFC3.JPG Updates - Perspectives on the Shutdown: Parks & Trails Berens overlooks the wetlands off Garden Walk Boulevard, site of a proposed trail along the Flint River. https://findingtheflint.org/updates/2020/4/15/perspectives-on-the-covid-19-shutdown-infrastructure monthly 0.5 2020-04-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1587064499793-FN78N1LKXUL9ZV41RLO8/DSC_1670.jpg Updates - Perspectives on the Shutdown: Stormwater Infrastructure https://findingtheflint.org/updates/2020/4/15/perspectives-on-the-covid-19-shutdown-turtles monthly 0.5 2020-04-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1586982289572-D3WHXAEMBG1TCXS70U0C/image2.jpeg Updates - Perspectives on the Shutdown: Turtles Portrait by Dylan Stuckman https://findingtheflint.org/updates/2020/4/15/perspectives-on-the-covid-19-shutdown-wetlands-amp-wildlife monthly 0.5 2020-04-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1586982105870-XZB78RRG2T2QV39CKJEQ/tracker.jpg Updates - Perspectives on the Shutdown: Wetlands & Wildlife Bunch identifies bunny and bobcat tracks along the banks of the Flint under the Forest Parkway bridge. https://findingtheflint.org/updates/2020/4/13/finding-the-source-of-the-flint monthly 0.5 2020-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1586975884466-YZFPN7CSLAOQ0B8QIVD7/1911+Map.png Updates - Search for the Spring https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1586786914262-Q0ETPI0HQOSLK55LHOV8/aerial.jpg Updates - Search for the Spring https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1586979873912-MHJXF0I71JQ8Y4QEPMRH/Flint+Source.jpg Updates - Search for the Spring https://findingtheflint.org/updates/category/Interviews monthly 0.5 https://findingtheflint.org/updates/category/Press monthly 0.5 https://findingtheflint.org/history daily 0.75 2018-10-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1538594875735-N3Z2WX40C0IHWAJXLXCX/Screen+Shot+2018-08-07+at+2.49.10+PM.png History - 1895 The Macon & Western Railroad opened in 1846, the first of three rail lines completed in the area, leading to the formation of railroad towns like East Point (1870), Hapeville (1891) and Forest Park (1908), shown here as “Astor.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1537841719658-B3SG3W92GYR3STPU4OQL/1920s.jpeg History - 1909 Asa Candler, founder of the Coca-Cola Company, built the Atlanta Speedway on a level parcel next to the headwaters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1538593863509-S43J7EX44HHUBPBYLBV8/flint+river+baptist+association.JPG History - 1913 These churches organized themselves around their baptismal font, the Flint River. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1538596130880-V55S4CXS1RZ3BE46N8BA/1927.png History - 1927 Candler Field embraced by the headwaters of the Flint River. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1538593826769-PHKBHL96V099DXHB1O0Z/IMG_5262.JPG History - 1940s As part of the WPA program, Atlanta Municipal Airport extended its runways far enough to cross the Flint, requiring the headwaters to be channelized and buried. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1537841727143-BLDHMRPGTQVQT8PAO49K/Southern+Airways+HQ.jpg History - 1950s The Flint is channelized behind the headquarters of Southeastern Air on Virginia Avenue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1538595020852-G7OMSCBUQP09WXIRP627/1960sChurchMap.jpg History - 1960s The Flint River flowed through Clayton County neighborhoods and farms south of the airport. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1538594662575-45QPJ2D9M3G9GBECWIT3/Rainey_Parking_Lot-1978.jpg History - 1978 The river is flanked by parking lots, prone to flooding, next to Delta’s headquarters https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1538594601629-9SFY8HWVFOT9JZOQUI7M/enclosure+construction.jpg History - 1970s Long segments of the Flint were enclosed in a culvert during construction of the new “Midfield” terminal that we use today. A generation of residents who grew up alongside the headwaters were displaced by airport expansion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1537842643976-18IGZDWE3CEMU64O7RHJ/2004+Sullivan+Creek.png History - 2004 Construction of runway 10/28, the “fifth runway,” required the piping of Sullivan Creek, a Flint tributary, and fenced off another 1.2 miles of the river. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1537841770942-YASHBZDIZ4Y9U1FUALTJ/Flat+Shoals_Flint+River_2016+%5BJeremy+Diner%5D+-+Copy.jpg History - 2007 Severe drought led to tributaries of the Flint River running dry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1537841854797-LTTT4GM135U4NIGH9DWI/Screen+Shot+2018-08-03+at+3.35.07+PM.png History - 2015 During heavy rain, the Flint River regularly floods the bridge at Upper Riverdale Road. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1537842671357-KRVL5OQ0YDOROF1RZ3FW/IMG_3382.JPG History - 2017 Finding the Flint launched to leverage Aerotropolis redevelopment efforts to restore the headwaters and benefit airport area communities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1538595263312-1LXF4XNPNSG56MUZ0767/1927.png History https://findingtheflint.org/discovery daily 0.75 2021-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1538075228706-EIAXHQFSUDAFGSBXYDHP/IMG_5601.JPG Discovery https://findingtheflint.org/vision daily 0.75 2018-10-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1538072632948-2TNYCHWC3HWG1NR3SMAI/Screen+Shot+2018-09-24+at+9.12.57+PM.png Vision Connect people to the river. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1538073857795-2ZVPT3HL2ZPPDVPEAAT8/Screen+Shot+2018-09-24+at+9.13.05+PM.png Vision Add beauty and soul to any development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1538072598854-AHRIRVZ4HJYA8QZ6LPRA/Screen+Shot+2018-09-24+at+9.12.53+PM.png Vision Improve the health of the river. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1538072614118-JIV71Q51I4QNP9QLTE7N/Screen+Shot+2018-09-24+at+9.13.02+PM.png Vision Provide solutions to the airport. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1531493850197-EZXFL3WKQH5FZF2U1B50/01_Willingham_Before.jpg Vision - Headwaters Walk Follow the headwaters along Willingham Drive from the East Point and College Park MARTA stations to the airport edge, following a chain of pocket parks that daylight the creek. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1531493854512-JIFU4CETOEOS3CJN9NU0/01_Willingham_After.jpg Vision https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1531493869775-YSLKTWZPSEGRM15X9417/02_Delta_Before.jpg Vision - Green Gathering Space Imagine a signature public park where the Flint enters the airport. Featuring state of the art stormwater infrastructure, this park could be the centerpiece of Delta’s corporate campus, highlighting the company’s environmental stewardship role. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1531493867340-YRS78IIGPOBG4MXL4VXJ/02_Delta_After.jpg Vision https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1531493872903-NQXPCPRFP9RP29YMI8NR/03_Promenade_Before.jpg Vision - The Promenade Finally, an observation deck deserving of the world’s busiest airport. This expansive promenade intersects the Flint headwaters, creating a wide public interface where visitors and locals can meet, stroll, play, dine, see the headwaters, and watch airplanes up close. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1531493874941-NJZJ54COB1BYVA3BULJW/03_Promenade_After.jpg Vision https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1531493883026-MR0PTT9XO8KQRQPOYMOX/04_FPway_Before.jpg Vision - Flint River Trail Cyclists and pedestrians can enjoy dramatic views on the southern edge of the Fifth Runway where the Flint emerges from the airport’s culverts. This is the Clayton County trailhead of a statewide Flint River Trail network. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1531493882461-DQZTUFIZRUJ6K9P7Z1AS/04_FPway_After.jpg Vision https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1531493888269-AUTHARRA7HYH370Z3RKF/05_EcoIndustrial_Before.jpg Vision - Corporate Backyard The Flint River Trail winds through this office park, creating not just a green amenity for office workers, but a new identity for this otherwise nondescript collection of commercial spaces. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1531493893291-2GWYYMXIB7R9ESGLTNA3/05_EcoIndustrial_After.jpg Vision https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1531493907318-WPQTSDI91JI72R6J0R65/06_ClayCo_Before.jpg Vision - Confluence Park As these quarries transition into greenspace, they could be converted into reservoirs at the confluence of the Flint River and Mud Creek, eliminating the threat of flooding downstream and opening up this area for recreational use. Trails through this lush landscape connect Riverdale’s hospital and K-12 schools with nature and learning opportunities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1531493901975-M389PWFQ5OSRSSRFTV62/06_ClayCo_After.jpg Vision https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aed9948fd4d25ef306e50f/1531493917597-TO7FSZY7895JZXUK9AT4/07_Market_Before.jpg Vision - State Farmers Market Upstream from the headwaters is not just an airport, but an industrial district that includes the State Farmers Market and nearly 2,000 acres of impervious surfaces. 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