Synopses & Reviews
Atlanta and Environs is, in every way, an exhaustive history of the Atlanta Area from the time of its settlement in the 1820s through the 1970s. Volumes I and II, together more than two thousand pages in length, represent a quarter century of research by their author, Franklin M. Garrett—a man called “a walking encyclopedia on Atlanta history” by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. With the publication of Volume III, by Harold H. Martin, this chronicle of the South’s most vibrant city incorporates the spectacular growth and enterprise that have characterized Atlanta in recent decades.
The work is arranged chronologically, with a section devoted to each decade, a chapter to each year. Volume I covers the history of Atlanta and its people up to 1880—ranging from the city’s founding as “Terminus” through its Civil War destruction and subsequent phoenixlike rebirth. Volume II details Atlanta’s development from 1880 through the 1930s—including occurrences of such diversity as the development of the Coca-Cola Company and the Atlanta premiere of Gone with the Wind. Taking up the city’s fortunes in the 1940s, Volume III spans the years of Atlanta’s greatest growth. Tracing the rise of new building on the downtown skyline and the construction of Hartsfield International Airport on the city’s perimeter, covering the politics at City Hall and the box scores of Atlanta’s new baseball team, recounting the changing terms of race relations and the city’s growing support of the arts, the last volume of Atlanta and Environs documents the maturation of the South’s preeminent city.
Review
"Definitive . . . An exhaustive history of the city, which, in its faithful attention to minutiae, effectively captures the flavor of Atlanta."—Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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"A boon to the historian, the genealogist and to the average citizen who wants to fill himself in on the background of the leading Southeastern city."—Augusta Chronicle-Herald
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“A very competent and well-written history.”—American Reference Books Annual
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“A very model of local historical writing . . . A history that will long stand as the definitive story of Atlanta.”—Richmond News-Leader
About the Author
Franklin M. Garrett was director of the Atlanta Historical Society and a member and curator of the Georgia Historical Society. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution once praised him as "a walking encyclopedia on Atlanta history."
Table of Contents
VOLUME ISECTION
I — A Prelude to The Coming of the White Man
II — Standing Peachtree
III — The Eighteen-Twenties
CHAPTER
1—1821-1822-1823
2—1824
3—1825
4—1826
5—1827
6—1828
7—1829
SECTION IV— The Eighteen-Thirties
CHAPTER
8—1830
9—1831
10—1832
11—1833
12—1834
13—1835
14—1836
15—1837
16—1838
17—1839
SECTION V — The Eighteen-Forties
CHAPTER
18—1840
19—1841
20—1842
21—1843
22—1844
23—1845
24—1846
25—1847
26—1848
27—1849
SECTION VI — The Eighteen-Fifties
CHAPTER
28—1850
29—1851
30—1852
31—1853
32—1854
33—1855
34—1856
35—1857
36—1858
37—1859
SECTION VII — The Eighteen-Sixties
CHAPTER
38—1860
39—1861
40—1862
41—1863
42—1864
43—1865
44—1866
45—1867
46—1868
47—1869
SECTION VIII — The Eighteen-Seventies
CHAPTER
48—1870
49—1871
50—1872
51—1873
52—1874
53—1875
54—1876
55—1877
56—1878
57—1879
VOLUME II
SECTION IX — The Eighteen-Eighties
CHAPTER
58—1880
59—1881
60—1882
61—1883
62—1884
63—1885
64—1886
65—1887
66—1888
67—1889
SECTION X — The Eighteen-Nineties
CHAPTER
68—1890
69—1891
70—1892
71—1893
72—1894
73—1895
74—1896
75—1897
76—1898
77—1899
SECTION XI— 1900-1909
CHAPTER
78—1900
79—1901
80—1902
81—1903
82—1904
83—1905
84—1906
85—1907
86—1908
87—1909
SECTION XII— 1910-1919
CHAPTER
88—1910
89—1911
90—1912
91—1913
92—1914
93—1915
94—1916
95 1917
96—1918
97 1919
SECTION XIII — Recent Years
CHAPTER
98 — The Nineteen-Twenties
SECTION XIV — Recent Years
CHAPTER
99 — The Nineteen-Thirties
100 — Epilogue
Bibliography
Index