Lemuel "L.P." Grant, a prominent Atlanta citizen who in 1843 purchased the land that is now the Grant Park neighborhood, also donated 100 acres of that land to the city for Grant Park, a place for children to play and adults to find rest and peace from their daily routine.
Delivered by Joseph C. Logan on June 3, 1910 in Atlanta, Georgia.
Born in Frankfort, Maine, Lemuel Pratt Grant came to Atlanta in 1840 as a railroad engineer and over the next 40 years prospered as he built Georgia's railroads with Atlanta as the railroad center.
Presented by Mrs. L. E. Grant on March 25, 1954.
Business letters, apparently written from L.P. Grant’s office on the second floor of the Atlanta & West Point Railroad at the Depot. (January 1868 - January 1882.)
The Atlanta Preservation Center has purchased the Lemuel P. Grant Mansion on St. Paul St. (south of St. Paul Methodist Church), and plans to restore it as its headquarters, a preservation resource center and a house museum.
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