Sunset Paddle September 4, 2010

Meet at Visitor Center, located near the 12th Street park entrance. The tour lasts 60-90 minutes and covers all phases of the park's development - forest, the Walker farm, fairgrounds for the Piedmont Exposition of 1887, the Cotton States and International Exposition of 1895, the transformation of the fairgrounds into a suburban park, and the current status of Piedmont Park as Atlanta's premier urban park. The tour uses the voices of the past and pictures to bring history to life.