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Revision as of 23:25, 21 February 2012

Atlanta timeline
Seal of the City of Atlanta
Seal of the City of Atlanta
Timeline
before 1820s
1762Standing Peachtree, Native American trading post first mentioned
1820
1821Creek Indians cede land that is now Metro Atlanta
1822Decatur founded
1830
1830Whitehall Tavern built at today's West End
1836Western and Atlantic Railroad approved
1839John Thrasher builds settlement at terminus
1840
1842Name "Atlanta" approved;
Georgia Railroad arrives from Augusta
1846Macon & Western RR connects Atlanta with port of Savannah
1847Atlanta incorporated
1850
pop. 2,572
1850Oakland Cemetery founded
1851W&A RR connects Atlanta to The Midwest
1854Atlanta & La Grange RR connects Atlanta towards the southwest; Atlanta becomes rail hub for entire South
1860
pop. 9,554
1861-1865American Civil War
1864Civil War Atlanta Campaign, burning of Atlanta
1865Civil War ends; slaves freed;
Atlanta University, 1st Atlanta black college, founded
1870
pop. 21,879
1871Horse-drawn streetcars appear, enabling city expansion
1880
pop. 37,409
1880Atlanta surpasses Savannah as Georgia's largest city
1881International Cotton Exposition
1885Georgia Tech founded
1886Atlanta goes "dry";
Coca-Cola first sold;
Henry Grady's "New South" speech in New York
1887Piedmont Exposition;
Inman Park, first garden suburb, founded
1889First electric streetcars enable further expansion of city;
State Capitol building opens
1890
pop. 65,533
1895Cotton States Expo; Booker T. Washington gives "Atlanta Compromise" Speech
1900
pop. 89,872 - metro 419,375
1906Atlanta Race Riot kills 27;
Black businesses move to Sweet Auburn and west side
1910
pop. 154,839 - metro 522,442
1910Restaurants segregated; other Jim Crow laws follow
1913Leo Frank lynching;
Georgia Tech starts "evening college", now Georgia State
1914Coca-Cola president Asa Griggs Candler donates land for Emory University campus in Druid Hills
1917Great Atlanta fire
1920
pop. 200,616 - metro 622,283
1923Spring Street Viaduct opens, downtown rises above train tracks
1930
pop. 270,366 - metro 715,391
1936William B. Hartsfield elected mayor;
Techwood Homes built, first public housing in US
1939Gone with the Wind premiere draws 300,000 to streets
1940s
1946Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) founded
1949Last streetcar line converted to trolleybus
1950
pop. 331,314 - metro 997,666
1950Transit strike, Atlanta Transit Co. takes over transit from Georgia Railway and Power
1952Buckhead annexed
1958Racist terrorists bomb "The Temple", believing Jews support black Civil Rights
1959Trolleybuses, buses, public library desegregated;
Lenox Square mall opens
Metro population hits 1 million
1960
pop. 487,455 - metro 1,312,474
1960Civil Rights sit-ins at Rich's, lunch counters
1961Ivan Allen, Jr. becomes mayor;
Public schools begin token desegregation;
Rich's desegregates restaurant;
John Portman opens Merchandise Mart, kicking off transformation of downtown
1962106 Atlanta art patrons die in Paris air crash
1963Trolleybuses converted en masse to buses
1968Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated
1969Perimeter freeway opens
1970
pop. 496,973 - metro 1,763,626
1973Maynard Jackson becomes first black mayor
1979MARTA opens first rail rapid transit line;
Child murders begin
1980
pop. 425,022 - metro 2,233,324
1980CNN launches, Turner empire takes off
1982Andrew Young becomes mayor
1988Democratic Convention
1990
pop. 394,017 - metro 2,959,950
1992Bank of America Plaza completed, tallest US building outside of NYC and Chicago
1996Summer Olympics
2000
pop. 416,474 - metro 4,112,198
2005Airport becomes world's busiest;
BeltLine plan adopted, adding 40% to city's green space
2008Delta becomes world's largest airline;
Downtown tornadoes
2010
pop. 420,003 - metro (CSA) 5,729,304
2011Atlanta first US city to demolish all public housing projects

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