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Athens (City and county-seat)

city and county-seat of the city. Pop. about 200,000. See GREECE. the Central of Georgia, the Southern and the Seaboard Air Line railroads; 67 miles E. of Atlanta, the State capital. It is in a cotton-growing region; has a large trade in that staple; and contains cotton and woolen, cottonseed oil, bobbin, and hosiery mills, iron works, furniture factories, and other industrial plants. It is the seat of the University of Georgia, the State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Lucy Cobb Institute, and a State Normal School.

There are electric light and street railway plants, banks, several hotels, and daily, weekly, and monthly periodicals.

Pop. (1910) 14,913; (1920) 16,748.