The History of Atlanta: 1782-1910

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  • First Written Record of Standing Peachtree

  • Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin

  • Fort Peachtree was built

  • Period: to

    Creeks and the Cherokees forced to surrender their land

  • ATL opened for white settlement

  • Hardy Ivy, first permanent white settler

  • Western and Atlantic Railroad was built from Chattanooga to ATL

  • ATL was named Terminus

  • ATL name changed to Marthasville

  • ATL became ATL

  • Oakland Cemetery opened

  • Civil War

  • Sherman destroyed ATL

  • All 5 railroads back in operation

  • ATL became the capital

  • John S. Pemberton created COCO-COLA

  • Joe Jacobs Pharmacy began selling COCO-COLA

  • ATL had 12 railroad lines

  • COCO-COLA company founded by Asa Candler

  • Alonzo Herndon founded the Atlanta Life Insurance Co.

  • ATL Race Riot

  • ATL had 40 railroad lines