the city's slavery museum has said. The International Slavery Museum (ISM) included the street in a display when it opened in 2007, as the link to Penny "was in the wider public domain".

The Slave Haven Underground Railroad Museum, or the Burkle Estate, draws visitors back to the pre-Civil War era. The main house was once used as a shelter for slaves along the Underground Railroad.

It also hosts special exhibits on a wide array of subjects, such as printing techniques, religious imagery and slavery ... the museum in advance to be sure it's open when you're in Atlanta.

Museum officials say Atlanta businessman Michael Boulware Moore ... for a site of a former wharf where tens of thousands of slaves first set foot in North America.