Atlanta, Georgia, USA
1916

Atlanta, at-lan'ta, a city, capital of Georgia, and seat of justice of Fulton co., is situated on an elevated ridge dividing the waters of the Chattahoochee River from the rivers that now into the Atlantic, at an altitude of 1050 feet above the level of the sea. It has a remarkably healthy and equable climate, the mean annual temperature being about 60° Fahrenheit, with a cool and salubrious atmosphere. Lat. 33° 44' N. ; Ion. 84° 20' W. It is 7 miles SE. of the Chattahoochee River. Several railroads (Atlanta and West Point, the Seaboard Air Line, the Southern, etc.) converge at Atlanta, mostly trunk lines, and leading from such important cities as Augusta, 171 miles distant; Knoxville, Tenn. ; Savannah, etc. Atlanta has an extensive and rapidly increasing trade, particularly in cotton, dry goods, and horses and mules ; the tobacco trade is the largest south of Richmond.

There are several hundred industrial establishments, prominent among which are manufactories of furniture, street-cars, paper, cotton goods, agricultural implements, etc. ; there are extensive foundries and machine-shops, and lumber- and planing-mills. Upward of 40 newspapers are published here. Atlanta is laid out in the form of a circle, with a diameter of 3$ miles, and with the Union Depot as the centre. The chief public buildings are the custom house, state capitol, containing a library of over 50,000 volumes, opera-house, court-house, city-hall, and chamber of commerce. Atlanta has an excellent system of public schools, and contains numerous educational institutions of a high order for both white and colored students, foremost among which are the Atlanta University; Clark University, connected with which are Gammon Theological Seminary and normal and industrial departments ; Georgia School of Technology, medical colleges, etc.

Atlanta was settled in 1840 ; was incorporated as the village of Marthasville in 1842, as Atlanta in 1847. Pop. in 1850, 2572; in 1860, 9554; in 1870, 21,879; in 1880, 37,409; in 1890, 65,533 ; in 1900, 89,872. It was entered by the Union troops under General Sherman, Sept. 2, 1864, after a siege of several weeks. He destroyed the business portion of the city on leaving it in the following November. Important expositions were held here in 1881 and 1895. South of the city are the large McPherson Barracks.

Lippincotts New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns, Resorts, Islands, Rivers, Mountains, Seas, Lakes, Etc., in Every Portion of the Globe, Part 1 Angelo Heilprin Louis Heilprin - January 1, 1916 J.B. Lippincott - Publisher

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