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The Cheshire Farm Trail is a walking trail along the South Fork of Peachtree Creek in
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. The trail was completed in 2014 and opened to the public after a ribbon cutting ceremony on September 23, 2014. The trail cost about , and was funded by the
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to appease local residents who were unhappy about the construction of a flyover for the Georgia 400/
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interchange. The trail is named for Hezekiel Cheshire, a captain in the
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who lived and farmed in the area and built a farmhouse near the location of the current trailhead. Cheshire was part of the Cheshire family, after whom
Cheshire Bridge Road Cheshire Bridge Road is a mainly north–south thoroughfare of Atlanta, Georgia, USA traversing the Morningside-Lenox Park and Lindridge-Martin Manor neighborhoods from Piedmont Avenue to Buford Highway just north of Interstate 85. While the c ...
is named.


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