Atlanta
a city of Georgia, the county-seat of Fulton co., and the capital of Georgia. It is on the Atlantic, Birmingham and Atlantic, the Georgia, the Louisville and Nashville, the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis, the Seaboard Air Line, the Southern, and other railroads. Atlanta is the most important industrial and commercial center of the Southeast and is also the financial center and the central distributing point for the Southeast. It lies in the heart of one of the richest regions of the world, as yet largely undeveloped. It had in V ATLANTES 1920 over 600 factories manufacturing over 1,000 different articles, with a product of about $80,000,000 per year.
These factories give employment to over branch offices of manufacturing plants located outside the city.
The most ATLANTIC OCEAN along the coast for 10 miles; has an average width of 4 of a mile, and is from 4 to 5 miles from the mainland. At several miles of bathing beach, a magknown to coastwise sailors. The city has several miles of bathing beach, a maging houses, electric lights, public schools, a very large number of hotels and boarding houses, electric lights, public schools, churches of the principal denominations, several National banks, and daily, weekably the first all-the-year-round resort ably the first all-the-year-round resort in the United States, its splendid climate giving it a large popular patronage even population varies, but is estimated at from 400,000 to 500,000. Pop. (1910)