The roadside stories worth pulling over for.
Established in 1912 by Father Ignatius Lissner with funding from Saint Katharine Drexel, Our Lady of Lourdes was Atlanta's first African American Catholic parish. Its members joined civil rights protests in the Old Fourth Ward decades later.
Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church is a historical marker in Atlanta, Fulton County, erected in 2013. It is one of 357 historical markers documented in Fulton County, among 643 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 33.7549, -84.3720 near Atlanta. The nearest cataloged historic site is Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park (national park site), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Historic Fire Station No. 6, Martin Luther King Junior and Coretta Scott King Grave, and Harper House.
This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
See this site and every marker, cemetery, courthouse, museum, battlefield and landmark across Georgia on one live map — find what's near you, get directions, and collect sites as you roam.
Georgia