Peters Park
In 1884, Kimball secured funding to purchase 200 acres (0.81 km2) of land fronted on West Peachtree Street and running west along North Avenue to construct roads and housing. A company was organized to manage the property with Richard Peters as president and Kimball as general manager. Peters Park, what would have become Atlanta's first garden suburb, failed to sell, and the land would be donated and sold in 1887 to be the site of the Georgia Institute of Technology, then known as the Georgia School of Technology.
He was a major figure there until scandals at the end of Radical Republican power in the early 1870s but he made two significant returns to town.
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