Editing Scottdale, Georgia (section)

==History==
Scottdale is named for Colonel [[George Washington Scott]], who founded the Scottdale Cotton Mill in the late 1800s.<ref>{{cite book | url=http://www.kenkrakow.com/gpn/s.pdf| title=Georgia Place-Names: Their History and Origins | publisher=Winship Press | author=Krakow, Kenneth K. | year=1975 | location=Macon, GA | pages=201 | isbn=0-915430-00-2}}</ref> Colonel Scott arrived in [[DeKalb County, Georgia|DeKalb County]] from Florida, where he had previously owned a plantation, served in the [[Confederate Army]], and unsuccessfully run for governor. Col. Scott was also a benefactor of the female seminary that became [[Agnes Scott College]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rampantscotland.com/placenames/placename_atlanta.htm|title=Scottish Place Names - Atlanta, Georgia, USA|website=www.rampantscotland.com}}</ref>

[[File:1940 Census Enumeration District Maps - Georgia - DeKalb County - Scottdale - ED 44-19, ED 44-20A, ED 44-43 - NARA - 5829955.jpg|thumb|Highway Department map of Scottdale from 1940]]
The Scottdale Cotton Mill development included the mill and nearby housing for workers.  From the 1920s through the 1940s, Scottdale Manufacturing Company even supported a baseball team.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dekalbhistory.org/01_about/01_aa.html|title=DeKalb History Center}}</ref>  The mill shut down in 1982, and workers found jobs elsewhere in metro Atlanta. Philanthropist [[Tobie Grant]] donated several acres of property to disenfranchised, unemployed African-Americans and created a community known as Tobie Grant. This community continues to house low-income African Americans. Oak Forest Apartments was also opened under this theme in 1968.{{Citation needed|date=October 2019}}  
 
The commercial district in Scottdale is focused on [[East Ponce de Leon Avenue]], which bisects the community from the southwest to the northeast.  Your DeKalb Farmers Market and antique shops are located on this road, along with several auto body shops and industrial buildings. Steel LLC maintains a large steel fabrication and distribution facility in Scottdale, near the intersection of North Clarendon Avenue and East Ponce de Leon Avenue.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.steelincga.com/about-us.cfm|title=Atlanta Steel Suppliers - Structural Steel Fabrication Companies - Steel, LLC|date=March 17, 2014 }}</ref> Efforts to rehabilitate East Ponce de Leon Avenue commenced in 2007.