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USS Atlanta (CL-51) of the United States Navy was the lead ship of the Atlanta class of eight light cruisers. She was the third Navy ship named after the city of Atlanta , Georgia. Designed to provide anti-aircraft protection for US naval task groups, Atlanta served in this capacity in the naval battles Midway and the Eastern Solomons .
Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in Georgia (U.S. state) (28 P) Pages in category "1940s in Georgia (U.S. state)" This category contains only the following page.
from to notes SR 1: 1920 now SR 1E: 1955 ← 1 (part) : 1984 Old Cedartown Highway, south from Rome SR 2: 1920 now SR 3: 1920 now SR 3E: 1937-10 1984 → 3 (part) : parallel part of 3 is shown as 3W in 1937-1946 and 1954-1955 (if that is when that map is from) but also shown on later Atlanta insets; old 3 is now Atlanta Road
"Atlanta", New Georgia Encyclopedia, Georgia Humanities Council; Digital Public Library of America. Items related to Atlanta, various dates. Europeana. Items related to Atlanta, Georgia, various dates. Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University: Utopian Literary Club (Atlanta, Ga.) records, 1927-2004
Candler Park is a 55-acre (223,000 m 2) city park located at 585 Candler Park Drive NE, in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.It is named after Coca-Cola magnate Asa Griggs Candler, who donated this land to the city in 1922. [2]
All eight ships in this class served during World War II, and six ships survived the war. The lead ship of this class, Atlanta, was laid down on 22 April 1940 and launched on 6 September 1941. Atlanta was commissioned at the New York Navy Yard on 24 December 1941, just a few weeks after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of 7 December.
The area of land known as Pittsburgh was on the southern outskirts of Atlanta in the early 1880s when houses began to be built there. [3] Owned by white real-estate investor H.L. Wilson, it had many similarities to neighboring Mechanicsville, which also grew up around the Pegram railroad repair shops, but there were substantial differences amongst which was that Pittsburgh was predominantly ...
Forward Warrior is an annual live street art painting event founded by Atlanta Artist Peter Ferrari. In recent years, Forward Warrior has covered the walls along Wylie Street and Tennelle Street in Cabbagetown with dozens of works of street art. [9] Several of the murals created for Forward Warrior are mapped on the Atlanta Street Art Map. [10]