Pace's Ferry belonged to Hardy Pace, one of Atlanta's founders. Paces Ferry Road connects historic Vinings in the west, on the Chattahoochee River in Cobb County, to the western edge of Atlanta's Buckhead area in the east. From this end, West Paces Ferry Road, one of Atlanta's best-known streets, traverses east through some of Atlanta's oldest and wealthiest Buckhead neighborhoods, and serves as the address for the Georgia Governor's Mansion. Continuing east, West Paces Ferry Road becomes East Paces Ferry Road after intersecting Peachtree Road in Buckhead's entertainment and nightlife district. East Paces Ferry Road runs as far east as Lenox Square mall, after being severed by Georgia 400. Paces Mill Road is a small spur route off of Paces Ferry Road connecting Vinings east to Cobb Parkway (U.S. 41). There was also a Battle of Pace's Ferry during the Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War.
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Famous quotes containing the words pace and/or ferry:
“Come, blunt your spear with us,
our pace is hot.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“This ferry was as busy as a beaver dam, and all the world seemed anxious to get across the Merrimack River at this particular point, waiting to get set over,—children with their two cents done up in paper, jail-birds broke lose and constable with warrant, travelers from distant lands to distant lands, men and women to whom the Merrimack River was a bar.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)