This is the Fall Line.

Well, we have a long history in Atlanta. I first known descended in the city of Atlanta

with a man by the name of Ransom Month Memory. Ransom Month Memory was responsible for the

Month Memory Ferry, which is tied to the Month Memory Ferry Road in Buckhead. In any case,

this was pre-Saw War. He was freed because he saved the train. So the story is that Ransom was out on a

given day preparing to initiate crossing the Chateau Goutre River using the ferry and there's a train

bridge that next to that spot. And in fact, that bridge is still there, but at the time it was

witnessed that of metal. And cinders from the smoke stack set the bridge ablaze. And before any of the

passengers showed up, Ransom went up and he proceeded to put the flames out. And the passengers arrived

noticing that he put the flames out. And for that reason, the state of Georgia actually bought him

from his, quote, owners and gave him freedom of traveling anywhere he wanted to and allowed him to

sail buns from the Atlantic and Western railroad station.

How much do things change in a century in the South?

November 1987, Atlanta, a little under nine years until the 1996 Olympics. Just under three years

before the announcement came, that our city would host the games. It was then 1990 that the look of

Atlanta began to shift. In season three of the fall line, we talked about the effect all the

Olympic preparation had on Atlanta's public housing of the many neighborhoods that were dismantled

and demolished to make the skyline more attractive or more prosperous looking. Many of the neighborhoods

associated with the Atlanta child murders were the first to be re-zoned with residents scattered

sometimes further out of the city and onto the edges of county lines.

The story of Gregory Montgomery murdered the day after Thanksgiving 1987 begins and ends with one

of these neighborhoods. There is a single archival news article on this crime published in the Atlanta

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