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Piedmont Park is located in Midtown, north of the city center
in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Benjamin Franklin Walker originally owned
the land, but he sold it in for use as the site of the 1887 Piedmont
Exposition (during which, incidentally, the first commercial showing
of a motion picture in the U.S. was made). Joseph Forsyth Johnson
designed Piedmont Park for the exposition.
Piedmont Park, more than any of the other Atlanta parks, is the
focal point of Atlanta’s lively Midtown community. Piedmont
Park is home and host to various annual celebrations, events and
Atlanta attractions, including the Atlanta Pride Festival, the
Atlanta Jazz Festival, the Atlanta Dogwood Festival, Screen on
the Green (a summer classic film series aired in the park for
locals) and more. The Georgia Shakespeare Festival added an annual
series of free performances in 2004 called "Shake on the
Lake", featuring Lake Clara Meer as a backdrop.
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