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Atlanta timeline
Seal of the City of Atlanta
Seal of the City of Atlanta
before 1820s
1762Standing Peachtree, Native American trading post first mentioned
1820s
1821Creek Indians cede land that is now Metro Atlanta
1822Decatur founded
1830s
1830Whitehall Tavern built at today's West End
1836Western and Atlantic Railroad approved
1839John Thrasher builds settlement at terminus
1840s
1842Name "Atlanta" approved
Georgia Railroad arrives from Augusta
1846Macon & Western RR connects Atlanta with port of Savannah
1847Atlanta incorporated
1850s
1850Oakland Cemetery founded
1851W&A RR connects Atlanta to The Midwest
1854Atlanta & La Grange RR connects Atlanta towards the southwest; Atlanta become the rail hub for the entire South
1860s
1861-1865American Civil War
1864Civil War Atlanta Campaign, burning of Atlanta
1865Civil War ends; slaves freed
Atlanta University, 1st Atlanta black college founded
1870s
1871Horse-drawn streetcars appear, enabling city expansion
1880s
1880Atlanta surpasses Savannah as Georgia's largest city
1885Georgia Tech founded
1886Atlanta goes "dry"
Coca-Cola first sold
Henry Grady's "New South" speech in New York
1887Inman Park, first garden suburb, founded
1889First electric streetcars enable further expansion of city
1890s
1900s
1906Atlanta Race Riot kills 27
Black businesses move to Sweet Auburn and west side
1910s
1910Restaurants segregated; other Jim Crow laws follow
1913Leo Frank lynching
1914Coca-Cola president Asa Griggs Candler donates land for Emory University campus in Druid Hills
1917Great Atlanta fire
1920s
1930s
1939Gone with the Wind premiere draws 300,000 to streets
1940s
1946Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) founded
1950s
1952Annexation of Buckhead