Atlanta and environs : a chronicle of its people and events. Volume II / Franklin M. Garrett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garrett, Franklin M. (Franklin Miller), 1906-

Series:

Atlanta and environs : a chronicle of its people and events

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Atlanta (Ga.)--History.

Atlanta (Ga.).

Atlanta (Ga.)--Biography.

Atlanta Metropolitan Area (Ga.)--History.

Atlanta Metropolitan Area (Ga.).

Atlanta Metropolitan Area (Ga.)--Maps.

Physical Description:

1 online resource e (1070 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, 1969.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Atlanta and Environs is, in every way, an exhaustive history of the Atlanta Area from the time of its settlement in the 1820's through the 1970's. Volumes I and II, together more than two thousand pages in length, represent a quarter century of research by their author, Franklin M. Garrett a man called "a walking encyclopedia on Atlanta history" by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. With the publication of Volume III, by Harold H. Martin, this chronicle of the South's most vibrant city incorporates the spectacular growth and enterprise that have characterized Atlanta in recent decades. The work is arranged chronologically, with a section devoted to each decade, a chapter to each year. Volume I covers the history of Atlanta and its people up to 1880 ranging from the city's founding as "Terminus" through its Civil War destruction and subsequent phoenixlike rebirth. Volume II details Atlanta's development from 1880 through the 1930's including occurrences of such diversity as the development of the Coca-Cola Company and the Atlanta premiere of Gone with the Wind. Taking up the city's fortunes in the 1940's, Volume III spans the years of Atlanta's greatest growth. Tracing the rise of new building on the downtown skyline and the construction of Hartsfield International Airport on the city's perimeter, covering the politics at City Hall and the box scores of Atlanta's new baseball team, recounting the changing terms of race relations and the city's growing support of the arts, the last volume of Atlanta and Environs documents the maturation of the South's preeminent city.

Contents:

section 9. The eighteen-eighties

section 10. The eighteen-nineties

section 11. 1900-1909

section 12. 1910-1919

section 13. Recent years

section 14. Recent years.

Notes:

Reprint. Originally published: New York : Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1954.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [1013]-1018) and index.

ISBN:

9786612553066

9781282553064

1282553062

9780820331287

0820331287

OCLC:

647927560