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1 Atlanta: From Fort to Force

2 Atlanta, Georgia 2630 Ridgewood Rd.

3 The War of 1812 The War of 1812 also known as The Creek Wars had an impact on the development of Atlanta.

4 The British and the Creeks

5 Cherokee Leaders

6 Fort Peachtree Replica

7 The Trail of Tears

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9 Terminus

10 Marthasville

11 Wilson Lumpkin

12 Marthasville

13 Marthasville Ale, Atlanta’s first Microbrewery in 1994

14 “Sweet Georgia Brown”

15 Atlanta, 1847 Atlanta was incorporated as a city in 1847.

16 The Burning of Atlanta

17 The Phoenix

18 Population in 1870 As a Result of the Civil War, the population of Atlanta grew to nearly 22,000 of which approximately 45% were people of color.

19 Henry Grady, The “New South”

20 Commercial Atlanta circa 1887

21 Too busy to hate? Atlanta’s relentlessly commercial attitude has been the key to its Extraordinary success.

22 John S. Pemberton

23 Asa Candler

24 The Cola Wars

25 Atlanta began to change in demographics

26 The Atlanta Race Riots of 1906

27 Atlanta still thrived

28 The Lynching of Leo Frank in 1915

29 The Great Fire of 1917

30 Coke Bought from Candler in 1919

31 “What’ll you have; what’ll you have?”

32 Coca Cola to the Rescue

33 Techwood Homes

34 Federal Housing Authority Areas surrounding a location are investigated to determine whether incompatible racial and social groups are present, for the purpose of making a prediction regarding the probability of the location being invaded by such groups. If a neighborhood is to retain stability, it is necessary that properties shall continue to be occupied by the same social and racial classes. A change in social or racial occupancy generally contributes to instability and a decline in values

35 The FHA and Redlining …Those having the most favorable effect come first in the list and those exerting the most detrimental effect appear last: 1. English, Germans, Scotch, Irish, Scandinavians. 2. North Italians. 3. Bohemians or Czechoslovakia's. 4. Poles. 5. Lithuanians. 6. Greeks. 7. Russian Jews of the lower class. 8. South Italians. 9. Negroes. 10. Mexicans

36 Gone With the wind

37 Bell Bombers

38 The Centers for Disease Control

39 Martin Luther King Jr.

40 MLK Jr.’s Home

41 Ebenezer Baptist Church

42 The New Church

43 John Portman

44 The Atlanta Mart

45 View From Hyatt’s Glass Elevator

46 Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport

47 Stone Mountain

48 Stone Mountain Sculpture

49 MARTA

50 The MARTA Train Map

51 Visualize World-Class transit in Atlanta

52 Jimmy Carter Library

53 The Woodruff Arts Center

54 Dedication to a community

55 The Shade, by Rodin

56 The Atlanta Braves

57 The Falcons

58 The Hawks

59 Underground Atlanta

60 The 1996 Olympics

61 Ice Hockey

62 The Capitol Building

63 A view of the skyline


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