Atlanta - A Twentieth-Century City

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Atlanta, by Atlanta Chamber of CommerceThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.netTitle: AtlantaA Twentieth-Century CityAuthor: Atlanta Chamber of CommerceRelease Date: March 29, 2010 [EBook #31822]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ATLANTA ***Produced by Meredith Bach and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. (This file wasproduced from images generously made available by TheInternet Archive/American Libraries.) ATLANTAA TWENTIETH-CENTURY CITY The Illuminated Cover ofthis Pamphlet is a reproductionof the Famous Picture“ATLANTA BY NIGHT”published by Harper’s Weeklyin the issue of October 10th,1903, and here presented bycourtesy of Harper & Bros. ISSUED BY THEAtlanta Chamber of Commerce1904THE BYRD PRINTING CO., ATLANTA UNION PASSENGER STATION. How Atlanta Grew.HE Atlanta of to-day is a growth of thirty-eight years. Twice has the upbuilding of a city on this site demonstrated itsT 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 importantindustries, whose principal object was to ...