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Peachtree Street is the main north-south street of Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The city grew up around this one street, and many of its historical and municipal buildings are or were located along it. Running from downtown to Midtown and on through Buckhead, it is for Atlanta what Broadway is for New York City, New York: the proverbial and legendary heart of the city.Historically, Atlanta grew up on a site occupied by the Creek people, and the "peachtree" street was, in fact, not named for a peach treeThis article is about the biological organisms known as trees. For other meanings of the word see tree (disambiguation). oak tree in Denmark A tree can be defined as a large perennial woody plant. Though there is no set definition of size, it is generally of any sort, but for a large Creek settlement called Standing Pitch Tree after a tall lone tree. Reportedly, the Creek used trees with fresh pitchPitch is the name for any of a number of highly viscous liquids which appears solid. Pitch can be made from petroleum products or plants. Petroleum-derived pitch is also called bitumen. Pitch produced from plants is also known as Resin. Products made from (the sapSap is the thin, watery fluid inside plants that circulates food and water to the various parts of the plant. Maple tree sap is commonly used in the production of maple syrup. The sap of the rubber tree is used to make latex, which is vulcanized to make r of a pineThis article deals with the tree; for the e-mail client see Pine email client About 115. Pines are coniferous trees of the genus Pinus in the family Pinaceae. There are about 115 species of pine, although different authors accept anything from 105 to 125 tree) for solemnizing vowA vow ( Lat. votum vow, promise; see vote) is a transaction between a person and a god whereby the former undertakes in the future to render some service or gift to the god or devotes something valuable now and here to his use. The vow is a kind of oath,s and treaties. The "pitch tree" was corrupted to "peach tree", perhaps by mistakeMistake of law and mistake of fact are two types of defense by excuse, via which a defendant may argue that they should not be held criminally liable for breaking the law or liable for damages under a civil law action. Most criminal courts do not recogniz, or because it sounded better to English speakers. While peaches are native to northern Georgia and the Atlanta area and Georgia is the "Peach State", there was apparently no historical peach tree that led to the name.
Because of the rapid growth of the city of Atlanta, and in particular its suburban communities, visitors to the city can have trouble. A local joke is that all directions begin, "Go to Peachtree . . . . " The name is so popular that there are many streets with "Peachtree" as part of their name. Peachtree Street itself changes its name to Peachtree Road at Midtown and then becomes Peachtree Industrial Boulevard north of Buckhead.
Then there are Peachtree Creek Road, Peachtree Lane, Peachtree Avenue, Peachtree Circle, Peachtree Drive, Peachtree Plaza, Peachtree Way, Peachtree Memorial Drive, and Peachtree Valley Road. West Peachtree Street is not the western branch of Peachtree Street, but a parallel major north-south street that is west of Peachtree Street. Others include Peachtree Battle Avenue, commemorating the Battle of Peach Tree Creek , Peachtree-Dunwoody Road runs between Peachtree Street and Dunwoody, Georgia, and, finally, to top off the tourist's nightmare, Old Peachtree Street Road Highway runs to Alpharetta, Georgia. Some of these streets intersect with Peachtree Street or are extensions of it, and some are nowhere near it. Not all the "Peachtrees" in Atlanta are given here.
In 1949 Gone With the Wind author Margaret Mitchell was killed as a pedestrian crossing Peachtree Street at the intersection with 13th Street.
Urban legend states that Peachtree Street is atop a ridge which is part of the Eastern Continental Divide. Actually, the railroad tracks were built on the watershed following DeKalb Avenue from Decatur to Five Points, then turning southwest toward the airport, with the north side draining into the Chattahoochee or Flint Rivers and therefore into the Gulf of Mexico, and the south side eventually into the Atlantic Ocean. Atlanta's primary water source is the Chattahoochee and much of the water is pumped over the watershed. To balance the river flows, the sewage is pumped back to the Chattahoochee.
