This occurred after the original seat of Campbellton refused to allow the Atlanta & West Point Railroad line though on account of the anticipated noise, then faded away as Fairburn grew.

* Renford Reese, Ph. D. — son of pioneer sports writer Earnest Reese ( Atlanta Journal-Constitution ); professor, author, founder, Colorful Flags program at Cal Poly Pomona University ; grew up / went to high school in McDonough ( graduated 1985 ).

Louisiana industrialist and inventor William Edenborn maintained the Emden plantation southwest of Atlanta, where he grew peanuts, cotton, and silkworms.

Born into a wealthy family, Blanche grew up as the apple of her father's eye on a plantation outside of Atlanta, Georgia, prior to her relocation to Miami, where she lived with her late husband George.

Barbe, a Florida native who grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, studied drama at the University of Georgia.

Martha grew up in a beautiful Southern mansion, Bulloch Hall, in Roswell, just north of Atlanta, Georgia.

Conley was born in McIntosh County, Georgia, U. S., and grew up in Atlanta.

Ernie Harwell grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, working in his youth as a paperboy for the Atlanta Georgian ; one of his customers was writer Margaret Mitchell.

McNeill grew up in Atlanta, and began his career acting in local and regional productions before becoming a student at The Juilliard School in New York City.

Born Warren Anderson Mathis on March 6, 1977, Sparxxx grew up in a rural area north of LaGrange, Georgia, a town 65 miles southwest of Atlanta.

Food Not Bombs grew throughout the 1990s, and held four international gatherings: in San Francisco in 1992 and 1995, in Atlanta in 1996, and in Philadelphia in 2005.

The city grew up around the street, and Peachtree Street is for Atlanta what Broadway is for the city of New York: the proverbial and legendary heart of the city.

Atlanta grew up on a site occupied by the Creek people, which included a major village called Standing Peachtree.

Saliers was born in New Haven, Connecticut to Don and Jane Saliers and grew up in Decatur, Georgia ( in metro Atlanta ), where her father was a professor at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University.

Note that Birmingham actually grew up around a major junction of north-south and east-west railroads, just as Atlanta, Georgia, did.

As Atlanta grew ever further outwards from its historic center, mansions were constructed along Peachtree Street.

Finck grew up in Marietta, Georgia and played with several unsigned bands based primarily in the Atlanta area, including acts such as Prowess, Bat Your Lashes, Sik Dik ( bandmates of which included Steve " Holiday " Childress and Michael Allen, currently of The Goodies and Greg Thum ), and Impotent Sea Snakes.

McGreevy earned his nickname " Nuf Ced " due to the way he kept peace in his bar: when he grew frustrated with arguments over the Boston Americans ( who would later be renamed the Red Sox ) and the Boston Braves ( who would later move to Milwaukee and, eventually, Atlanta ), he would pound his hand on the bar and declare "' Nuff said !".

Born in Seoul, South Korea to a Korean mother and an African American father, Ward grew up in the Atlanta area.

Lang was born in Dayton, Ohio, and grew up in Atlanta, Georgia.

Westmoreland grew up in metro Atlanta.

Yancey was born in Atlanta and grew up in nearby suburbs.

The phoenix became the official symbol of Atlanta, Georgia in 1888 because it was " reborn " from the ashes after it was burned down in the American Civil War.

Baskett was unable to attend the film's premiere in Atlanta, Georgia because he would not have been allowed to participate in any of the festivities in what was then a city racially segregated by law.

Johnny, distraught because his father has never left him or his mother before, leaves that night under cover of darkness and sets off for Atlanta with only a bundle.

James Baskett was unable to attend the film's premiere because he would not have been allowed to participate in any of the festivities, as Atlanta was then a racially segregated city.

The Atlanta Thrashers and Nashville Predators both had their full rosters protected because they were the two newest teams, only being in existence for one and two years, respectively.

" In another 1986 speech, this time in Atlanta, Irving claimed that " historians have a blindness when it comes to the Holocaust because like Tay-Sachs disease it is a Jewish disease which causes blindness ".

During General William T. Sherman's March to the Sea during the Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War, Sherman spared Roswell because he had a cousin who lived there.

This assumption is likely because this steam engine was the predecessor to the steam locomotives which built Atlanta.

The county also received national media attention because of Lake Lanier, which forms the eastern border of the county, and the scarcity of water resources during a drought that threatened water supplies for the metro Atlanta area and, downstream, areas of Alabama and Florida.

However, because of rapid growth of the Atlanta area, drought, and mishandling of a stream gauge, Lake Lanier has seen record-low water levels.

The assembly also repealed the requirement that new cities must be at least three miles ( 4. 8 km ) from existing cities, because the new city limits border both Roswell and Atlanta.

Perimeter Center, which is the biggest edge city in the Atlanta area, includes many high-rise buildings, including the Concourse Towers, which are often identified locally as the " king and queen " towers because of their distinctive architecture.

The name changed in 1896 because Southern Railway trains would stop on the way from Atlanta to Gainesville to get oak wood for their engines.

Hogansville began because there was a crossroads on Hogan's land of two important routes, the north-south railroad between Atlanta and West Point, and the east-west road to Augusta, now Highway 100.

The town is called Between because it is between two of Georgia's largest cities — Atlanta and Athens are exactly the same distance to Between.

When grading was done for the Atlanta and Richmond Air Line Railway in 1870 and a small depot was built in the community, it was given the name " Wright ’ s Station ", because the nearest resident was William Wright.

' " On February 3 Christina Smith, the city censor of Atlanta, argued that because of " the sordid life it portrayed, the treatment of illicit love, the failure of the characters to receive orthodox punishment from the police, and because the picture would tend to weaken a respect for the law ," Scarlet Street was " licentious, profane, obscure and contrary to the good order of the community.

She was unable to participate in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta because of an injured left knee.

Hooker led his corps ( now designated the XX Corps ) competently in the 1864 Atlanta Campaign under Sherman, but asked to be relieved before the capture of the city because of his dissatisfaction with the promotion of Maj. Gen. Oliver O. Howard to command of the Army of the Tennessee, upon the death of Maj. Gen. James B. McPherson.

Regarding her soon-to-be rap name, Harris told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that she got the name because she is " a spoiled only child.

Jackson's first term as mayor also coincided with the Atlanta Child Murders case between 1979-81, which he played a prominent role in resolving, both in supporting the Atlanta Police and other police forces in the area, but also by endeavoring to calm the huge amount of public tension that arose because of these serial killings.