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  2. List of former Atlanta street names - Wikipedia

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    From its founding in 1847, Atlanta has had a penchant for frequent street renamings, even in the central business district, usually to honor the recently deceased.As early as 1903 (see section below), there were concerns about the confusion this caused, as "more than 225 streets of Atlanta have had from two to eight names" in the first decades of the city.

  3. 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).

  4. List of people from Atlanta - Wikipedia

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    75th governor of Georgia born and lived in Atlanta Michelle Nunn: foreign service, candidate for senator, non-profit CEO born and lived in Atlanta Jon Ossoff: US senator of Georgia born and lived in Atlanta [94] [95] [96] Kasim Reed: 59th mayor of Atlanta lived in Atlanta Randolph W. Thrower: former commissioner of Internal Revenue: lived in ...

  5. Nicknames of Atlanta - Wikipedia

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    "Chicago of the South" "Convention City of Dixie Land" An 1859 industrial journal was among the first to note nicknames for Atlanta, Georgia: [1]. An orator claimed for it the signification of "a city among the hills" while a writer has declared that it was the opposite of "rus in urbe" ("country in the city") and proclaimed it "'the city in the woods".

  6. List of mayors of Atlanta - Wikipedia

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    See the mayors of Atlanta category for an alphabetical list by surname. Mayor Asa Griggs Candler (1917–1919). Candler incorporated The Coca-Cola Company in 1892. Mayor William B. Hartsfield (1937–1941; 1942–62). He was the longest serving Atlanta Mayor, running the city politics for ca. 30 years. Mayor Kasim Reed (2010–2018) #

  7. Timeline of Atlanta - Wikipedia

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    Atlanta becomes Georgia state capital. [1] Constitution newspaper begins publication. [12] 1869 - Clark College founded. 1870 - Population: 21,789. [7] 1871