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the vast expanse important products are cotton goods, fertilizers, cart wheels, machinery, lumber, terra cotta, bricks, wagons, furniture, cottonseed oil, etc. It is an important educational center, having 52 institutions of learning in addition to 64 public schools and commercial colleges.
Among the leading institutions of higher education are the Georgia School of Technology, Emory University, Oglethorpe University, and Lanier University. There are also several colleges for women, including the Agnes Scott College, Scott College and Conservatory, and Elizabeth Mather College, and five colleges for negroes. There are 18 public North and South America, and extending parks and playgrounds, a fine public from the Arctic to the Antarctic Oceans; library, a State lib library, the State capitol, greatest breadth, between the W. coast city hall, custom house, Carnegie library, of northern Africa and the E. coast of and other important public buildings. Florida, 4,150 miles; least breadth, be- There is an auditorium with a seating tween Norway and Greenland, 930 miles; capacity of 8,000 in which performances superficial extent, 25,000,000 square are given annually by the Metropolitan Grand Opera Co. There are 20 banks and trust companies. The bank clearings in 1919 amounted to $3,219,186,317. ings in 1919 amounted to $3,219,186,317. was $145,670,012, and of personal property $58,237,329. There were in 1920 erty $58,237,329. There were in 1920 disposal plant which was erected at a cost of nearly $4,000,000. The Federal cated in the city. Atlanta is an important city for the publication of newspapers and periodicals. The city was founded in 1837 as papers and periodicals. The city was founded in 1837 as Terminus, and was finally named Atlanta.
It was almost entirely destroyed by Sherman after the Battle of Atlanta in 1864. The increase in population following the Civil War was rapid. Pop. 1864. The increase in population follow- ing the Civil War was rapid. Pop. 154,839; (1920) 200,616.