Little Five Points
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Little Five Points (also L5P or LFP) is an area of Atlanta, Georgia, 2.5 miles (4 km) east of downtown. It was established in the 1920s as the commercial district for the Inman Park neighborhood, which lies to the west, and is home to many retail stores, restaurants, bars, theater companies, and music venues. Within metropolitan Atlanta, Little Five Points is often thought of as a center of liberalism and cultural diversity.
Broadly speaking, Little Five Points includes all of the surrounding neighborhoods: Inman Park, Kirkwood, Candler Park, Moreland, and Lake Claire.
The name refers to the intersection at the center of the region. Two points are provided by Moreland Avenue, which runs north-south (and forms the county line between Fulton County and DeKalb County), and two points are provided by Euclid Avenue, which runs northeast-southwest. The fifth point was originally Seminole Avenue, which met the intersection from the northwest; but with the conversion of the Seminole point to a plaza, the fifth point is now felt to be McLendon Avenue, which crosses Moreland just south of the original intersection. (There is no longer a five-point intersection.) Little distinguishes Little Five Points from Five Points, the center of downtown Atlanta.
External links
- Little Five Points (http://www.l5p.com/)
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