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Once a derelict downtown tract, this 22-acre park was conceived by Olympics chief Billy Payne and built for the 1996 Centennial Games, partly funded by nearly 500,000 engraved bricks, and it sparked decades of downtown Atlanta revitalization.
Welcome to Centennial Olympic Park is a historical marker in Atlanta, Fulton County. 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 33.7592, -84.3937 near Atlanta. The nearest cataloged historic site is 1996 Summer Olympics (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Glenn Building, 1998 Shining Light Award, and CNN.
This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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