Original School Name and Address: Frederick Wilson Benteen Elementary School, 200 Cassanova Street, SE, Atlanta, GA 30315
Construction or Date of Opening: 1956; deeded to Atlanta Board of Education under the "Plan of Improvement;" the school was constructed on the boyhood home site of Mr. Frederick Wilson Benteen.
The school was named for the fourth child and only surviving child of Frederick William Benteen & Catharine "Kate" Louisa Norman. Frederick Wilson Benteen was born on March 27, 1873 in Atlanta, Georgia and died on July 20, 1956. Like his father, he pursued a military career, rising to Lt. Colonel.