atlanta: from fort to force
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Atlanta: From Fort to Force. Atlanta, Georgia 2630 Ridgewood Rd. The War of 1812. The War of 1812 also known as The Creek Wars had an impact on the development of Atlanta. The British and the Creeks. Cherokee Leaders . Fort Peachtree Replica. The Trail of Tears. The Trail of Tears. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Atlanta: From Fort to Force
Atlanta, Georgia 2630 Ridgewood Rd.
The War of 1812
• The War of 1812 also known as The Creek Wars had an impact on the development of Atlanta.
The British and the Creeks
Cherokee Leaders
Fort Peachtree Replica
The Trail of Tears
The Trail of Tears
Terminus
Marthasville
Wilson Lumpkin
Marthasville
Marthasville Ale, Atlanta’s first Microbrewery in 1994
“Sweet Georgia Brown”
Atlanta, 1847
• Atlanta was incorporated as a city in 1847.
The Burning of Atlanta
The Phoenix
Population in 1870
• As a Result of the Civil War, the population of Atlanta grew to nearly 22,000 of which approximately 45% were people of color.
Henry Grady, The “New South”
Commercial Atlanta circa 1887
Too busy to hate?
• Atlanta’s relentlessly commercial attitude has been the key to its Extraordinary success.
John S. Pemberton
Asa Candler
The Cola Wars
Atlanta began to change in demographics
The Atlanta Race Riots of 1906
Atlanta still thrived
The Lynching of Leo Frank in 1915
The Great Fire of 1917
Coke Bought from Candler in 1919
“What’ll you have; what’ll you have?”
Coca Cola to the Rescue
Techwood Homes
Federal Housing Authority
• Areas surrounding a location are investigated to determine whether incompatible racial and social groups are present, for the purpose of making a prediction regarding the probability of the location being invaded by such groups. If a neighborhood is to retain stability, it is necessary that properties shall continue to be occupied by the same social and racial classes. A change in social or racial occupancy generally contributes to instability and a decline in values
The FHA and Redlining
• …Those having the most favorable effect come first in the list and those exerting the most detrimental effect appear last: 1. English, Germans, Scotch, Irish, Scandinavians. 2. North Italians. 3. Bohemians or Czechoslovakia's. 4. Poles. 5. Lithuanians. 6. Greeks. 7. Russian Jews of the lower class. 8. South Italians. 9. Negroes. 10. Mexicans
Gone With the wind
Bell Bombers
The Centers for Disease Control
Martin Luther King Jr.
MLK Jr.’s Home
Ebenezer Baptist Church
The New Church
John Portman
The Atlanta Mart
View From Hyatt’s Glass Elevator
Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport
Stone Mountain
Stone Mountain Sculpture
MARTA
The MARTA Train Map
Visualize World-Class transit in Atlanta
Jimmy Carter Library
The Woodruff Arts Center
Dedication to a community
The Shade, by Rodin
The Atlanta Braves
The Falcons
The Hawks
Underground Atlanta
The 1996 Olympics
Ice Hockey
The Capitol Building
A view of the skyline