Atlanta
Atlanta is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is one of the South's largest cities. Atlanta is known as a major business city. It is the home of Coca-Cola Company, CNN, AT&T, and Home Depot, as well as many other Fortune 500 companies. Atlanta's airport, called Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, is the busiest airport in the world. Atlanta is near the center of Georgia and is on the Chattahoochee River.
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| City of Atlanta | |
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| Coordinates: 33°44′56″N 84°23′24″W / 33.74889°N 84.39000°WCoordinates: 33°44′56″N 84°23′24″W / 33.74889°N 84.39000°W | |
| Country |  United States |
| State |  Georgia |
| Counties | Fulton, DeKalb |
| Terminus | 1837 |
| Marthasville | 1843 |
| City of Atlanta | December 29, 1847 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Andre Dickens (D) |
| • Body | Atlanta City Council |
| Area | |
| • State capital of Georgia | 136.76 sq mi (354.22 km2) |
| • Land | 135.73 sq mi (351.53 km2) |
| • Water | 1.04 sq mi (2.68 km2) |
| • Urban | 2,553 sq mi (6,610 km2) |
| • Metro | 8,376 sq mi (21,690 km2) |
| Elevation | 738 to 1,050 ft (225 to 320 m) |
| Population (2020) | |
| • State capital of Georgia | 498,715 |
| • Rank | 36th in the United States 1st in Georgia |
| • Density | 3,646.64/sq mi (1,407.924/km2) |
| • Urban | 5,100,112 |
| • Urban density | 1,997.7/sq mi (771.31/km2) |
| • Metro | 6,104,803 (9th) |
| • Metro density | 710.5/sq mi (274.32/km2) |
| • CSA | 6,976,171 (10th) |
| • Demonym | Atlantan |
| Time zone | UTC−5 (EST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
| ZIP Codes | 30060, 30301–30322, 30324–30334, 30336–30350, 30340, 30353, 30363 |
| FIPS code | 13-04000[8] |
| GNIS feature ID | 0351615[9] |
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| Primary airport | Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport |
| Website | atlantaga |
History
Atlanta was built on Cherokee Native American land. It was called Terminus until 1843, when the name was changed to Marthasville. In 1845 the name was changed again to Atlanta.[10]
During the American Civil War, Atlanta was where several battles happened. Some of the battles were the Battle of Peachtree Creek, the Battle of Atlanta, and the Battle of Ezra Church. The city was burnt down and almost entirely destroyed. After the war, the city was built again, and got a nickname because it was built so fast: "the Phoenix City", after the bird which burns itself then rises from the ashes in old myths. A picture of the bird is on the city seal.
Atlanta became the state capital in 1868.
There have been racial problems in Atlanta. During riots in 1906, at least 12 people died and more than 70 other people were hurt. In 1913, a Jewish man named Leo Frank was tried in court for raping and killing a girl in a factory where he worked. He was found guilty, but then the government decided not to execute him because not everyone was convinced he had done it. This upset people who thought he had killed the girl, and there were more riots in 1915 and Frank was lynched (hanged with a rope until he died).
In the 1930s, the Great Depression came to Atlanta. Many people did not have jobs and were hungry. The city government was almost out of money and the Coca-Cola company gave the city some money to help. In 1935, the government built the first federal housing project in the United States.
Atlanta's airport is named Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. It is the busiest airport in the world. Delta Air Lines is an airline that has its main office in Atlanta, and it uses Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport for many of its flights.
Turner Broadcasting, which broadcasts CNN, has their main office in Atlanta. The Coca Cola Company also has their main office in Atlanta.
Education
The City of Atlanta is home to two colleges. Georgia Institute of Technology, or Georgia Tech for short, and Georgia State University.
TV stations
Events
| Year | Notes |
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| 1996 | The Olympic Games took place in Atlanta. |
| 2000 | The census records Atlanta's population as 416,474 people. |
Images
Downtown
Turner Field
Atlanta Media
George N. Barnard's 1864 photograph of a slave trader's business on Whitehall Street shows a corporal from the United States Colored Troops sitting by the door.
Marietta Street, Atlanta 1864
In 1907, Peachtree Street, the main street of Atlanta, was busy with streetcars and automobiles.
The sarcophagus for Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King is within the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park in Atlanta proper.
The Olympic flag waves at the 1996 Summer Olympic games.
Midtown has been a major growing center of the city since the turn of the 21st century.
The skyline of Midtown (viewed from Piedmont Park) emerged with the construction of modernist Colony Square in 1972.
A section of Peachtree Street in Midtown Atlanta
Atlanta and its surrounding suburbs, from Sentinel-2A satellite, 2022
Beath-Dickey House (1890) in Inman Park neighborhood, 2018
References
- ↑ "Atlanta May No Longer Be the City in a Forest". WSB-TV. Archived from the original on October 28, 2014. Retrieved October 28, 2014.
- ↑ "The service, dubbed the Atlanta Tourist Loop as a play on the city's 'ATL' nickname, will start April 29 downtown." "Buses to link tourist favorites" The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- ↑ "Because we're the only city easily identified by just one letter". Creative Loafing. November 23, 2011. http://clatl.com/atlanta/because-were-the-only-city-easily-identified-by-just-one-letter/Content?oid=4291994. Retrieved October 7, 2012.
- ↑ "Love it or loathe it, the city's nickname is accurate for the summer". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. June 16, 2008. Retrieved June 4, 2021.
- ↑ "Our Quiz Column". Sunny South: 5. http://atlnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/atlnewspapers/view?docId=news%2Fssw1891%2Fssw1891-0021.xml. Retrieved 2017-11-21.
- ↑ How Atlanta became the Hollywood of the South. August 29, 2015. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/aug/29/how-atlanta-became-the-hollywood-of-the-south/?page=all. Retrieved May 25, 2016.
- ↑ "2018 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved February 12, 2020.
- ↑ "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
- ↑ "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. October 25, 2007. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
- ↑ Reed, Wallace Putnam (1889). History of Atlanta, Georgia: With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers. Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Company. p. 60. Retrieved August 8, 2018.
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