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2. List of museums in Atlanta - Wikipedia

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   This list of museums in Atlanta is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing ...

3. Chattahoochee Brick Company - Wikipedia

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   The Chattahoochee Brick Company was a brickworks located on the banks of the Chattahoochee River in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.The brickworks, founded by Atlanta mayor James W. English in 1878, is notable for its extensive use of convict lease labor, wherein hundreds of African American convicts worked in conditions similar to those experienced during antebellum slavery.

4. History of Atlanta - Wikipedia

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   Hope and Danger in the New South City: Working Class Women and\ Urban Development in Atlanta, 1890-1940 (U of Georgia Press, 2005). Hobson, Maurice J. The Dawning of the Black New South: A Geo-Political, Social, and Cultural History of Black Atlanta, Georgia, 1966-1996 (PhD Diss. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010).

5. Atlanta History Center - Wikipedia

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   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.

6. Whitehall Street Retail Historic District - Wikipedia

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   The name of the historic district comes from a previous name for Peachtree Street, one of the main roads in Atlanta. [2] Since early in the city's history, this corridor of Whitehall Street was considered a major retail center, [3] with the Atlanta Preservation Center calling it "Atlanta's commercial and retail core."

7. Castleberry Hill - Wikipedia

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   The area in the city limits of Atlanta known today as Castleberry Hill was originally part of the renegade Snake Nation community that functioned during the 1850s. [3] [4] According to an article from Atlanta Magazine, [5] Castleberry Hill was, by the mid-nineteenth century, a red-light district filled with prostitutes, gambling, and cockfighting.