352 - Harrison Square
675 Cherry Street NW, Atlanta, GA 30332
Harrison Square was named after Edwin Davies Harrison, the sixth president of Georgia Tech (1957-1969). It is home of the Corliss Pump from the Worthington Pump and Machinery Corporation, a company formed on April 20, 1916. The pump was used in the Coon Building on campus.
Per the historical marker at Harrison Square, Georgia Tech was established in 1885 to provide technical education in support of the state’s growing industrial economy. Georgia Tech — like many educational, business, and industrial sites in Atlanta — was built where bloody Civil War battles had occurred just two decades earlier. Educational institutions played a key role in helping the state to rebuild and flourish after the war.