7. An OLD LAMP POST, 

NE. corner Whitehall and Alabama Sts., has stood in this same location since it was first lighted with gas on Christmas Day, 1855. It is one of the original 50 ornamental iron street lamps which the city ordered installed that year at a cost of $21 each. During the siege of Atlanta in the summer of 1864, the first shell that exploded in the business section of the city struck this post, piercing its base and breaking the shaft into three pieces. The pieces were preserved, and the post was later repaired.

A bronze tablet, relating the history of the post, was placed on the base in 1919 under the auspices of the Old Guard and the Atlanta Chapter of the U.D.C. In December of 1939, the world premiere of Gone With the Wind, a gas connection was again installed so that the old lamp might burn with a perpetual flame as a memorial to the traditions of the South.

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