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Show AMERICANA Cities To Se Atlanfa-Gate City of the South mi aiim m. imm. u.ii ngi i in ii iiii i 11 i i(. l i .i n iijihiu in mini u m1 V r - c -.. -',.,.. " V ' ' ; ... . ".. . AERIAL VIEW Atlanta, Ga. Atlanta capital of the State of Georgia is one of America's newer, and greater cities. Often called the "Gate City of the South," Atlanta was originally developed de-veloped as a transportation center. Today it is a city of great contrast, boasting diversified commercial activity on one hand, beautiful homes, churches, diversified recreation facilities and gracious living on the other. Atlanta's brief history is drama-packed. drama-packed. Founded in 1837, when a railroad surveyor drove a stake into in-to the ground near what is now known as Five Points (the center of the financial district), it was the turn around point of the state's first railroad and the small town that grew there was called Terminus. Termi-nus. Later the name was changed to Marthasville. In 1847. it was incorporated in-corporated as the city of Atlanta, and in 1868, it was made the state capital. The city had a big part in the Civil War, much of which was dramatized drama-tized in the book, "Gone With the Wind." It was a bustling town of 10,000 when the war began, a strategic stra-tegic point desired by both armies. By 1864, year of the battle and iege of Atlanta, the city was a focal fo-cal point of the war. Burned to the I round by Sherman just before his marcb to the lea, the city was rap idly rebuilt when the war ended. Today, with a population of over 500,000, Atlanta ranks twenty-second among the cities of the United States. The city's 1,690 factories, a quarter of them postwar developments, devel-opments, produce 3,300 different commodities. The city tells more than $400,000,000 worth of its own manufactured goods each year, pours from its warehouses to all parts of the Southeast every type of manufactured goods from soap to automobiles. Things to see in Atlanta include the "Cyclorama," a striking picture pic-ture of the Battle of Atlanta, measuring meas-uring 400 feet around, 50 feet high, and weighing 18,000 pounds. Stone Mountain, 16 miles east, is said to be the largest body of exposed granite in the world. Another favored fa-vored tourist site is the Robert Burns cottage, a copy of the Scottish Scot-tish poet's home. I |