Atlanta: From Fort to Force

Atlanta, Georgia 2630 Ridgewood Rd.

The War of 1812

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

The British and the Creeks

Cherokee Leaders

Fort Peachtree Replica

The Trail of Tears

The Trail of Tears

Terminus

Marthasville

Wilson Lumpkin

Marthasville

Marthasville Ale, Atlanta’s first Microbrewery in 1994

“Sweet Georgia Brown”

Atlanta, 1847

• Atlanta was incorporated as a city in 1847.

The Burning of Atlanta

The Phoenix

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.

Henry Grady, The “New South”

Commercial Atlanta circa 1887

Too busy to hate?

• Atlanta’s relentlessly commercial attitude has been the key to its Extraordinary success.

John S. Pemberton

Asa Candler

The Cola Wars

Atlanta began to change in demographics

The Atlanta Race Riots of 1906

Atlanta still thrived

The Lynching of Leo Frank in 1915

The Great Fire of 1917

Coke Bought from Candler in 1919

“What’ll you have; what’ll you have?”

Coca Cola to the Rescue

Techwood Homes

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

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

Gone With the wind

Bell Bombers

The Centers for Disease Control

Martin Luther King Jr.

MLK Jr.’s Home

Ebenezer Baptist Church

The New Church

John Portman

The Atlanta Mart

View From Hyatt’s Glass Elevator

Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport

Stone Mountain

Stone Mountain Sculpture

MARTA

The MARTA Train Map

Visualize World-Class transit in Atlanta

Jimmy Carter Library

The Woodruff Arts Center

Dedication to a community

The Shade, by Rodin

The Atlanta Braves

The Falcons

The Hawks

Underground Atlanta

The 1996 Olympics

Ice Hockey

The Capitol Building

A view of the skyline