Handbook of the City of Atlanta
A Comprehensive Review of the City's Commercial, Industrial and Residential Conditions (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Handbook of the City of Atlanta: A Comprehensive Review of the City's Commercial, Industrial and Residential Conditions<br><br>The Atlanta of to-day is a growth of thirty-two years. Twice ha the upbuilding of a city on thi3 site demonstrated its natural advantages. Within a few year before the war Atlanta had become a bustling town of 11,000 inhabitants, and during the three years which intervened before it destruction the place was the scat 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 sup. plies to the surrounding country and a forwarding station for the commissary department of the army.<br><br>After its baptism of lire in November, 1S04, when the inhabitants had been dispersed by the exigencies of war, and of more than 1,000 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.<br><br>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 a place of promise, destined to be an important railroad center and a seat of commerce. This conception of the new city had been accepted as a true one when it was destroyed by fire, and since its new birth in reconstruction days the old spirit arose and lighted the new path of Atlanta to a greater destiny.<br><br>The capitol of the State was brought here from Milledgeville when the new city was hardly out of the ashes of war, and this gave a great impetus to its growth, which was further insured in 1877, when the people of Georgia voted to make Atlanta their capital. Its rapidly developing business and manufactures were brought to the attention of the whole country by the Cotton Exposition of 18S1, which was a point of departure for the tremendous development of the Southeastern States during the decade between lSSOand 1800. This development found a splendid illustration in the great Cotton States and International Exposition of 1895.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.