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About Lemuel Grant
- Lemuel Pratt Grant (1817–1893) was an American engineer and businessman.
- He was Atlanta's quintessential railroad man as well as a major landowner and civic leader.
- In railroads he served as a laborer, chief engineer, speculator and executive all over the South.
- As part of his speculation, he owned enormous tracts of land in strategic areas.
- For example, at one point he owned more than 600 acres (240 ha) in what is now Atlanta.
- He designed and built Atlanta's defenses during the American Civil War and afterwards became an important civic leader: donating the land for Grant Park, Atlanta's first large park, and serving as councilman and on various boards and committees.
- His mansion is one of only four remaining original antebellum houses in the city of Atlanta.
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