Skip to main content

Shepherd's Restaurant

View
@ Atlanta History Center

Description

View of Georgia State Representative and restaurateur E. J. Shepherd (left) and one of his sons at Shepherd's Restaurant on Butler Street (now Jesse Hill Jr. Drive) in Atlanta, Georgia.Shepherd's Home Cooked Foods, often simply referred to as Shepherd's Restaurant, was located at 11 Butler Street, SE (now Jesse Hill, Jr. Drive) in Atlanta, Georgia and was a popular gathering place for politicians in the 1970s. E. J. Shepherd, who served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 1969 to 1974, opened the restaurant in 1971. It closed in 1984.

Record Contributed By

Atlanta History Center

Record Harvested From

Digital Library of Georgia