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From Air Mail to Lindbergh Drive

The Lindbergh name carries a piece of Atlanta's aviation story. In 1925 the city leased an old auto racetrack in Hapeville and turned it into Candler Field, with William B. Hartsfield among its early champions.

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The Spirit of St. Louis on display, 1927 · National Photo Company, Library of Congress (public domain)

The Lindbergh name carries a piece of Atlanta's aviation story. In 1925 the city leased an old auto racetrack in Hapeville and turned it into Candler Field, with William B. Hartsfield among its early champions.

Air mail service began there in 1926, an early step in Atlanta's long rise as a place that moves people, mail and cargo. When Charles Lindbergh visited Atlanta in 1927 after his famous transatlantic flight, the city honored him — and Lindbergh Drive, and later the district and station around it, carry his name.

Candler Field eventually grew into Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Today that same airport is a direct MARTA ride from Resurgens Center at UPTOWN.

Watch the short archival history film on our About page to see the story in photographs.

Sources: Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport history; archival sources listed on the ATL Lindbergh About page.

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