Show How Now City Got Title Atlanta received the title of ot The Gate City at a banquet held In Charleston S. S C. C In 1850 according to Robert F. F Maddox Madder In a speech at Mayor Sims' Sims dinner to visiting railroad railroad rail raU road officials at the Biltmore hoteL I They had a big celebration In Charleston when the railroad from Charleston to Memphis was completed corn com Mr Maddox said Bald Atlanta and other cities clUes sent representatives Atlanta was an Inland city while tho the others were located on navigable na waterway wa wa- The mayor of Atlanta was waa called on to respond to the toast 4 Atlanta At- At lanta Tanta the Gate City of the South and the city elty has held this honorable title ever since I l' l I |