Similarly Named Streets
It is often joked that half of the streets in Atlanta are named Peachtree, and the other half have five names to make up for it. While "Peachtree" alone always refers to this street, there are 71 streets in Atlanta with a variant of "Peachtree" in their name. Some of these include:
- Peachtree Creek Road
- Peachtree Lane
- Peachtree Avenue
- Peachtree Circle
- Peachtree Drive
- Peachtree Plaza
- Peachtree Street SW (formerly Whitehall Street)
- Peachtree Way
- Peachtree Memorial Drive
- New Peachtree Road
- North Peachtree Road
- Peachtree Walk
- Peachtree Park Drive, and
- Peachtree Valley Road.
Others include:
- Peachtree Battle Avenue, commemorating the Battle of Peachtree Creek
- Peachtree Dunwoody Road, running between Peachtree Street and Dunwoody, Georgia, and
- Old Peachtree Road, which traces part of the route of the original Peachtree Trail for which the road is named.
Some of these streets intersect with Peachtree Street, others are extensions of it, and some are nowhere near it.
Peachtree is also seen in place names throughout Metro Atlanta.
- Peachtree Center is a major development of skyscrapers and other high-rises in downtown, with Peachtree Center Avenue running a block east of Peachtree Street.
- Peachtree City is a planned-suburb golf community located south of the city.
- Peachtree Corners is also a planned suburb located north of the city.
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