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Marthasville renamed "Atlanta." [1] 1846 – Macon & Western RR connects Atlanta with port of Savannah. [1] 1847 – Town of Atlanta incorporated. [3] 1848 - Moses Formwalt becomes mayor. 1849 - Benjamin Bomar becomes mayor. 1850 Population: 2,572; Atlanta Cemetery founded. [1] 1851 - Western and Atlantic Railroad connects Atlanta to The Midwest.
The history of Atlanta dates back to 1836, when Georgia decided to build a railroad to the U.S. Midwest and a location was chosen to be the line's terminus. The stake marking the founding of "Terminus" was driven into the ground in 1837 (called the Zero Mile Post).
December 31, 1881. International Cotton Exposition (I.C.E.) was a world's fair held in Atlanta, Georgia, from October 4 to December 31 of 1881. The location was along the Western & Atlantic Railroad tracks near the present-day King Plow Arts Center development in the West Midtown area. It planned to show the progress made since the city's ...
While the games experienced transportation and accommodation problems and, despite extra security precautions, there was the Centennial Olympic Park bombing, [63] the spectacle was a watershed event in Atlanta's history. For the first time in Olympic history, every one of the record 197 national Olympic committees invited to compete sent ...
The Atlanta campaign was a series of battles fought in the Western Theater of the American Civil War throughout northwest Georgia and the area around Atlanta during the summer of 1864. Union Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman invaded Georgia from the vicinity of Chattanooga, Tennessee, beginning in May 1864, opposed by the Confederate general ...
The Atlanta History Center is a history museum and research center located in the Buckhead district of Atlanta, Georgia. The Museum was founded in 1926, and has a large campus featuring historic gardens and houses, including Swan House, Smith Farm, and Wood Family Cabin. Atlanta History Center's Midtown Campus includes the Margaret Mitchell ...
Franklin Garrett. Franklin Miller Garrett (September 25, 1906 – March 5, 2000) was an American historian, the only official historian of Atlanta, Georgia. [ 1] His massive Atlanta and Environs: A Chronicle of its People and Events is a book about the city's history.
The history of the Georgia Institute of Technology can be traced back to Reconstruction -era plans to develop the industrial base of the Southern United States. Founded on October 13, 1885, in Atlanta as the Georgia School of Technology, the university opened in 1888 after the construction of Tech Tower and a shop building and only offered one ...