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The city's official walking tour doesn't editorialize — it marks sites. Released in September 2024 by the Historic Resources Committee, the single printed map threads the Downtown Mall, Court Square, Market Street Park, and the footprint of Vinegar Hill, a Black neighborhood razed in the 1960s. It also traces the ground where, on August 12, 2017, James Alex Fields Jr. drove into counter-protesters on Fourth Street Southeast, killing Heather Heyer. Pick it up at hotels, the public library, or City Hall.
Quick facts
- ·Not a discrete site — but the canonical curated path through the downtown for self-directed visitors.
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