Atlanta
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- Names
Atlanta
Terminus
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Located in northwest central Georgia; in Civil War was key Confederate supply depot; burned by Sherman in 1864; epitomizes "New South" attitude of return to "business as usual" since Civil War; financial and commercial capital of the southeastern US and a leading national city.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Canby, Historic Places (1984); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); Library of Congress HABS/HAER (1987-); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
- Born
Bobby Abrahamson (American, born 1966)
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