Atlanta grew because the city of Decatur did not want to become the railroad terminus in the 1830s, thus a spot at the Thrasherville encampment in western DeKalb was picked to become Terminus and then Marthasville, before becoming Atlanta a few years after its founding.

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.

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 Atlanta Falcons Adviser Board is made up of eleven members: Arthur M. Blank, Henry L. “ Hank ” Aaron, Steve Bartkowski, Glenda Hatchett, David E. Homrich, Felker W. Ward, Jr., Carl Ware, Bill Bolling, Dr. Robert M. Franklin, Ingrid Saunders Jones and Andrew Young ( Ambassador ).

Cycling is a growing mode of transportation in Atlanta, more than doubling since 2009, when it comprised 1. 1 % of all commutes ( up from 0. 3 % in 2000 ).

The Rockies were broken up after the 1997 season when an aging Galarraga signed with the Atlanta Braves as a free agent.

In addition, late-season call up Jeremy Hermida, a highly-regarded prospect who has been compared to the Atlanta Braves ' Jeff Francoeur, hit a pinch-hit grand slam in his first major-league at-bat and a game-tying two-run homer in the last game of the season.

Upon their return to Atlanta, the couple take up residence in the bridal suite at the National Hotel while their new home on Peachtree Street is being constructed.

The Padres played host to the Atlanta Braves on April 20, 1978, and with two out in the top of the fourth inning, Atlanta's Jeff Burroughs hit a ground ball up the middle.

The Broncos opened the second half by driving 74 yards to the Atlanta 20-yard line, but ended up scoring no points after Elam's 38-yard field goal attempt sailed wide right.

The debate quieted for a time, then arose again in the mid-1990s, when a " Committee for a Libertarian Majority " ( CLM ) was formed and met in Atlanta, Georgia, and worked up several proposals to alter many aspects of the Libertarian Party's operations.

Looking up into atrium of the Hyatt Regency Atlanta, first of Portman's atrium hotels

Kile made his first postseason appearance in Game 1 of the 1997 National League Division Series against the Atlanta Braves, giving up only two hits but suffering a hard-luck 2 – 1 loss.

It was during the 1972 – 73 season that the Flyers shed the mediocre expansion team label and became the intimidating Broad Street Bullies, a nickname coined by Jack Chevalier and Pete Cafone of the Philadelphia Bulletin on January 3, 1973 after a 3 to 1 brawling victory over the Atlanta Flames that led Chevalier to write in his game account, " The image of the fightin ' Flyers spreading gradually around the NHL, and people are dreaming up wild nicknames.

In the offseason, the Bulls gave up Lucas to the Toronto Raptors, Brewer to the New York Knicks, Korver to the Atlanta Hawks, Watson to the Brooklyn Nets and Aşık to the Houston Rockets, but brought back Kirk Hinrich.

SavetheRbraves. com set up an online petition, hoping to convince Atlanta officials that Richmond would rally to support the Braves.

I-24 makes up the majority of a high-traffic corridor between St. Louis, Missouri, and Atlanta, Georgia.

McKinney of Atlanta and Hosea Williams, who was on the Atlanta City Council, took up the march plans instead.

In the 1890s, The Atlanta & Knoxville Railroad ( later renamed the Marietta & North Georgia Railroad when it could not be completed to Knoxville ) built a branch line up through the middle of the county.

In 1996, the Olympic Torch was relayed through the city during the weeks leading up to the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia.

In 1996, the Olympic torch run passed through the city during the weeks leading up to the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta.

After the fall of Atlanta, a detachment of Sherman's cavalry was sent to raid the county ; but the Confederate Home Guard, made up of men too old for military duty, left the mountains on which Cornelia is situated and met the Yankee raiders at a narrow pass about four miles east of the town.

" " Coming out of the south, the heaviest impacts would be in Atlanta, in Nashville, St. Louis, Kansas City, moving across through Salt Lake City, through downtown Las Vegas, up to Yucca Mountain.

It was soon offered for syndication and picked up by the Toronto Star and The Atlanta Constitution.

During that time, she appeared regularly on the country music show " TV Ranch " on WAGA-TV in Atlanta ; she was so short, the host would lower a stand microphone as low as it would go and stand her up on a wooden crate to reach it.

Although his career had progressed successfully, Vaughan checked into a rehabilitation hospital in Atlanta, Georgia to give up a cocaine and alcohol habit and returned to touring with the band.