Williams Tavern - Fulton Co., GA
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N 33° 45.290 W 084° 25.019
16S E 739250 N 3737970
This marker to Williams Tavern is located on Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd in the West End district of Atlanta, GA.
Waymark Code: WM7WAX
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 12/12/2009
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Williams Tavern
In 1944, Helen and ’Nish’ Williams opened Williams Tavern on Hunter Street. The restaurants “Blue Dining Room” featured the house specialty, southern fried chicken. Nish Williams was an accomplished baseball player who played for Morehouse College and the Atlanta Black Crackers. In late in the late 1960s, their son Donn Clendon, a nationally-famous baseball player, replace the tavern with a night club that became a very popular.
Type of Marker: Building
Marker #: None
Date: None
Sponsor: Unknown
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