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Kirkwood Spring Fling & Tour of Homes
Atlanta, GA · Festival
- When
- May 15, 2027
- Where
- Bessie Branham Park · Atlanta · GA
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet
The Kirkwood Neighbors Organization's main annual fundraiser, combining an artist market, a morning 5K, a wing eating competition, and a self guided tour of historic homes at Bessie Branham Park. Held each third Saturday of May, proceeds fund neighborhood school and park programs.
The history within reach
The Kirkwood Neighbors Organization's main annual fundraiser, combining an artist market, a morning 5K, a wing eating competition, and a self guided tour of historic homes at Bessie Branham Park.
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The outdoor courts at Bessie Branham Park in Kirkwood, red and grey tiles laid over a slope on the east side of Atlanta.
Pratt Engineering put up the brick and steel sheds on Kirkwood farmland in 1904 to make sulfuric acid and the gas that carbonates soft drinks, then turned to explosive munitions during the First World War.
Ann Price ran this tiny counter in Kirkwood by herself from 1971 to 2022, cooking every order and posting house rules customers were expected to obey.
Oakhurst grew along the trolley line laid between Atlanta and Decatur in 1892 and incorporated as its own city in 1910 with roughly a hundred residents.