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CABBAGETOWN — Following a refurbishing and addition of new equipment, city officials and neighborhood leaders reopened Esther Peachy Lefevre Park in a ribbon cutting ceremony July 11.
The improvements to the 0.7-acre pocket park at the corner of Tennelle, Wylie and Powell streets include the installation of new children's playground equipment, a serpentine sidewalk, a wrought iron fence, a granite wall around the park perimeter and the planting of new sod and trees.
The work was funded by a Community Block Development Grant, the Atlanta Department of Parks and Recreation, grants from Park Pride and the Waterfall Foundation, as well as the Cabbagetown Initiative Community Development Corp.
Atlanta City Councilwoman Natalyn M. Archibong, Department of Parks and Recreation Commissioner George Dunsenbury and Cabbagetown residents celebrated the reopening with a tribute to the park's namesake, the late Esther Lefever. (She actually ended her surname with "er" instead of "re.")
A local community activist and former Atlanta City councilwoman, Lefever, who died of cancer in 1999, was a champion of civil rights and pushed for social and moral change in the city, noted Rob Pitts, a former Atlanta City Council president and current Fulton County commissioner.
An artist and singer in her own right, you can hear Lefever explain her work in the accompanying YouTube video on the large tiles that grace the outer walls of the CSX Hulsey Intermodal railroad yard on the Wylie Street side off Krog Street.
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