City of ATL land purchase record

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April 26, 2022

These documents are from the Dekalb county courthouse. City of ATL purchased the land known as the prison farm on Nov 10, 1911 for $15,000.

We’d like to highlight that it refers to the land as the “W. B. Key plantation”
City of ATL land purchases from Dekalb co records, includes “248.7 acres Constitution Rd” -land that we know as the prison farm

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