It is said that, even at the present stage of Southern urbanization, such a city as Atlanta is not distinctly unlike Columbus or Trenton.

That night a note written in Slocum's hand and dated from inside the captured city came to Sherman stating that the Twentieth Corps was in possession of Atlanta.

In 1965, after a stadium ( Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium ), was built, the city of Atlanta felt the time was right to start pursuing professional football.

NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle, who had been moving slowly in Atlanta matters, was spurred by the AFL interest and headed on the next plane down to Atlanta to block the rival league's claim on the city of Atlanta.

Former commissioner Pete Rozelle and Smith made the deal in about five minutes and the Atlanta Falcons brought the largest and most popular sport to the city of Atlanta.

Atlanta is mostly encircled by Interstate 285, a beltway locally known as " the Perimeter " that has come to mark the boundary between “ Inside the Perimeter ” ( ITP ), the city and close-in suburbs, and “ Outside the Perimeter ” ( OTP ), the outer suburbs and exurbs.

Although Atlanta ’ s lack of bike lanes may deter many residents from cycling, the city ’ s transportation plan calls for the construction of 226 miles of bike lanes by 2020, with the BeltLine helping to achieve this goal.

Atlanta has a reputation as the " city in a forest " due to an abundance of trees that is unique among major cities.

The city is home to the Atlanta Dogwood Festival, an annual arts and crafts festival held one weekend during early April, when the native dogwoods are in bloom.

However, the problem is being addressed by community organizations and city government: Trees Atlanta, a non-profit organization founded in 1985, has planted and distributed over 75, 000 shade trees in the city, while Atlanta ’ s government has awarded $ 130, 000 in grants to neighborhood groups to plant trees.

The city became the supply and logistics base for Sherman's 1864 Atlanta Campaign.

:* Battle of Ezra Church, July 28, 1864, Sherman's failed attack west of Atlanta where the railroad entered the city.

Atlanta is under siege ( September 1864 ), " hemmed in on three sides ," it descends into a desperate state while hundreds of wounded Confederate soldiers lie dying or dead in the city.

NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle, who had been moving slowly in Atlanta matters, was spurred by the AFL interest and headed on the next plane down to Atlanta to block the rival league's claim on the city of Atlanta.

Mitchell sponsored a second cruiser named after the city of Atlanta, USS Atlanta ( CL-104 ).

I had come to New Orleans two years earlier after graduating college, partly because I loved the city and partly because there was quite a noted art colony there.

So the verdict was `` death at the hands of a person or persons unknown '', and the elite of the city, accepting Delphine's testimony, welcomed her and the doctor back into the fold.

It was to provide a safe and spacious crossing for these caravans, and also to make a pleasance for the city, that Shah Abbas 2, in about 1657 built, of sun-baked brick, tile, and stone, the present bridge.

Miriam had not yet goaded him into mentioning her directly, but one can feel the generalized anger in Wright's remarks to reporters when he was asked, one morning on arrival in Chicago, what he thought of the city as a whole.

Samuel Gorton was born at Gorton, England, near the present city of Manchester, about 1592.

It was not until we had returned to the city to live, while I was still at Brown and Sharpe's, that I felt the full impact of evangelical Christianity.

It is remembered and has been commemorated by a bust in a park and a square in the city which was renamed Piazzo Lauro Di Bosis after the war.

The U.N.-chartered plane which was flying from the conference city of Ndola in Northern Rhodesia had been riddled with machinegun bullets last weekend and was newly repaired.

As we understand, this directive was given to all city and county employes.

The city was a center of manufacture, especially in textiles, and also because of the beauty of some of its surroundings, a residence for many owners of the great industries in north Alabama.

the rather pleasant white city was on the hill where the chief stores were.

For the old preacher who had been there twenty-five years was dead, and the city mourned him.

Port Jervis, basking in the foothills, was the city of God.

The city had recently given him a small salary, but it was not enough to supply even necessities.

The doctor sat down rather wearily, caressing the hen and remarking that the city was not the place for a poultry-loving man, but no sooner was the remark out than a knock at this door obliged him to cover the hen with his greatcoat once more.

But that year was different, for just as the city, in the form of my street clothes, had intruded upon my mountain nights, so an essential part of the summer gave promise of continuing into the fall: Jessica and I, about to be separated not by a mere footbridge or messhall kitchen but by the immense obstacle of residing in cruelly distant boroughs, had agreed to correspond.

From proud pool-owners to perpetual hosts and handymen was a short step -- no more than the change from city clothes to trunks.

It was reported to Welch's office that a thief in the city jail had attempted suicide.

The big factories which are relatively near the centers of our cities -- the rubber factories in Akron, Chrysler's Detroit plants, U.S. Steel's Pittsburgh works -- often began on these sites at a time when that was the edge of the city, yet close to transport ( river ), storage ( piers ) and power ( river ).

There were lights glinting in the city, too, even though it was now dark enough for a few stars to become visible.

Left alone while her husband was miles away in the city, the modern wife assumed more and more duties normally reserved for the male.

The expense of this type of organization in religious life, when one recalls the number of city churches which deteriorated beyond repair before being abandoned, raises fundamental questions about the principle of Protestant survival in a mobile society ; ;

The city exported meat, wool, wine, fruit and wheat by the time Grey left in 1845, contrasting with a low point in 1842 when one-third of Adelaide houses were abandoned.

The city suffered extreme overcrowding and deplorable sanitary conditions up to 1875 when the medieval fortifications were finally abandoned as a limit to building operations and new, less miserable quarters were built in the eastern part of the city, where drainage of waste liquids was easiest.

Founded in 437 BC, the city was finally abandoned in the 8th century AD.

The trail, which stretches and originates from Comstock Park, follows an abandoned railroad bed into the center of the city.

When the Japanese army approached Wuhan in the fall of 1938, Chiang's forces abandoned the city without a fight and withdrew farther inland, to Chongqing.

La Isabela was abandoned and Santo Domingo became the new capital, and remains the oldest continuously inhabited European city in the Americas.

Isokelekel and his descendants initially occupied the stone city, but later abandoned it.

Kaminaljuyu was first occupied between 1200 and 1000 BC and the city continued to be inhabited for about 2000 years before it was abandoned in the Late Classic Period of Mesoamerican chronology ( 600 – 900 AD ).

Others settled down in what today is Los Barrios or even further away, in the ruins of the abandoned city of Algeciras.

After the devastating 1354 earthquake, the Greek city of Gallipoli was almost abandoned, but swiftly reoccupied by Turks from Anatolia, the Asiatic side of the straits, making Gallipoli the first Ottoman position in Europe, and the staging area for their expansion across the Balkans.

Because the royal leadership essentially abandoned the city, the mobs soon had the support of the French Guard, including arms and trained soldiers.

The city was abandoned by 1450.

The Taliban abandoned Kabul and the United Front came to take control of the city.

The Arabian city of Ubar ( Iram of the Pillars ) was abandoned after much of the desert city and its primary water source collapsed into a sinkhole.

Repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt, the city slowly declined and was abandoned in the Byzantine era.

The Arabian city of Ubar ( Iram of the Pillars ) was abandoned after much of the desert city and its primary water source collapsed into a sinkhole.

As sea levels retreated ( the shoreline is 7m lower today than in 1000 ) the city was no longer accessible from the ocean and was abandoned.

* Paestum-Greek and Roman city south of Naples, abandoned due to climate change.

Now ready to enter Canaan, the Israelites abandoned the idea of attacking the Canaanites head-on in Hebron, a city in the southern part of Canaan.

Somewhere between 2600 BCE and 2000 BCE, the city seems to have been largely abandoned in favor of the new nearby settlement of Nausharo when the Indus Valley Civilisation was in its middle stages of development.