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Title: Atlanta
A Twentieth-Century City

Author: Atlanta Chamber of Commerce

Release Date: March 29, 2010 [EBook #31822]

Language: English

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ATLANTA

A TWENTIETH-CENTURY
CITY

The Illuminated Cover of
this Pamphlet is a reproduction
of the Famous Picture
"ATLANTA BY NIGHT"
published by Harper's Weekly
in the issue of October 10th,
1903, and here presented by
courtesy of Harper & Bros.

ISSUED BY THE
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
1904

THE BYRD PRINTING CO., ATLANTA

[Illustration: UNION PASSENGER STATION.]

How Atlanta Grew.

[Illustration: Coat of Arms]

The Atlanta of to-day is a growth of thirty-eight years. Twice has the
upbuilding of a city on this site demonstrated its natural advantages.
Within a few years before the war Atlanta had become a bustling town of
11,000 inhabitants, and during the three years which intervened before its
destruction the place was the seat of varied and important industries,
whose principal object was to sustain the military operations of the
Confederacy. It was also a depot for the distribution of supplies to the
surrounding country and a forwarding station for the commissary department
of the army.

After its baptism of fire in November, 1861, when the inhabitants had been
dispersed by the exigencies of war, and of more than 2,000 houses only 300
remained, the city took a new start, and its great growth dates from that
time. It is therefore, a city of the new regime, erected on the ruins of
the old.

The coat of arms of Atlanta fittingly typifies this remarkable history. No
city on the continent has survived such destruction. No city has twice
attained prominence with such rapidity. Atlanta's foundation reaches back
to the forties, and far-seeing men recognized it then as the plac