Atlanta History
He lit the flame for the 1996 summer Olympics in Atlanta.
Muhammad Ali
He lit the Olympic flame in Atlanta.
Muhammad Ali
The location of the Super Bowl LIII in 2019, where the Patriots won their 6th Super Bowl victory.
Mercedes-Benz Stadium. This was the 1st Super Bowl game played at the stadium and the 3rd in Atlanta.
This Atlanta team was inspired by Dr. King's "I Have A Dream" speech.
The Atlanta Dream, a WNBA team that plays in the league's Eastern Conference.
This business was started by a businesswoman from Atlanta who made her fortune off of women's undergarments.
Spanx founder Sara Blakely was getting ready for a party when she realized she needed an undergarment to create a sleek look for the pants she wanted to wear. She had pantyhose, but she didn’t need the feet, so she cut them off. From that inspirational moment, she went on to solve multiple wardrobe issues for women. In 2012, Forbes named her the world’s youngest self-made billionaire.
This civil rights icon was born on Atlanta's Auburn Avenue in 1928.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The 4th largest aquarium in the world.
The Georgia Aquarium
This city is the location for Truist Park, the home of the Atlanta Braves.
Cumberland, GA in Cobb County. The change from SunTrust Park, the stadium's name for its first three years, follows SunTrust Bank's merger with BB&T to form Truist Financial Corp. The stadium in Cobb County, north of downtown Atlanta, opened in 2017
This Atlanta university got its start on April 11, 1881, in the basement of Atlanta’s Friendship Baptist Church with $100 and 11 students.
Spelman College. Within three months, the school had attracted 80 students and, by the following year, 200 women had enrolled. Spelman is part of the Atlanta University Center Consortium, which includes Morehouse College, Morehouse School of Medicine and Clark Atlanta University in addition to Spelman. The consortium is the world’s oldest and largest association of historically Black colleges and universities.
This company was started in 1886 in the backyard of a pharmacist in Atlanta.
The Coca-Cola Co.
This university started with 47 students and 5 instructors.
Georgia State, which, in 1913, began as an evening school for Georgia Tech.
The most popular attraction inside the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum.
The reason Georgia Tech was founded.
Legislators, civic leaders and business leaders realized the city needed a technological school. As business man Jacob Elsas put it: “We are selling our old raw materials at $5 a ton to states that have trained engineers who fabricate it and sell it back to us at $75 and $100 a ton.”
The significance of Citizens Trust Bank, which opened its doors in 1921 on Auburn Ave.
Citizens Trust was established to serve Atlanta’s urban black community. Under the guidance of L.D. Milton the bank survived the stock market crash of 1929 and the Depression that followed. During his tenure at Citizens Trust, he continued to teach at Morehouse College.
These 2 famous rappers (and couple) made Sandy Springs their home with the purchase of a $5.8M house, complete with its own indoor gun range.
Cardi B. and Offset. The home (which has 5 bedrooms, 7 full bathroom, and 4 half bathrooms) is 22,000 sq feet set on 6 acres. It has a 4 car garage and a wine cellar that fits 1,800 wine bottles.
This tragedy led to the founding of the Woodruff Arts Center.
The 1962 crash of a charter flight at Paris’s Orly airport. The 106 Atlantans who died were members of the Atlanta Art Association, or relatives. Mayor Ivan Allen described them as the backbone of Atlanta’s cultural society, the city’s leading patrons of the arts. Woodruff Arts Center, home to the Alliance Theatre, High Museum of Art and Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, is a memorial that honors them.
This Atlanta Museum honors an American businesswoman and philanthropist who became one of the first African-American female millionaires in the country.
The Madam C.J. Walker Museum, which is housed in the building that was an original Madam C.J. Walker Beauty Shoppe (circa 1950). The museum is located on Hilliard Street NE.
The number of streets in Atlanta that have Peachtree in their name.
70. Named for Peachtree Creek.
Peachtree Creek is perhaps most famous for the Battle of Peachtree Creek, a pivotal 1864 attack in the Atlanta Campaign during the Civil War. When Confederate forces led by Commander John Bell Hood failed to prevent federal troops from crossing the creek, the Union army forged on towards Atlanta. Peachtree Battle Avenue in Buckhead now pays tribute to that legendary fight.
The creek's name goes way back to Georgia's earliest inhabitants, the Cherokee tribe.
This Georgia politician was a Freedom Rider, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and a keynote speaker at the 1963 March on Washington.
John Lewis, who represented Georgia's 5th District. There is a permanent exhibit dedicated to John Lewis in Atlanta's Hartsfield Airport. The National Center for Civil and Human Rights offers a really personal look at the Civil Rights Movement.
This actress, who played a conwoman pretending to be herself in Oceans 12, is an Atlanta native.
Julia Roberts. She was born in Smyrna.
The significance of July 22, 1864. (Hint: it's Civil War-related)
That is the date of the Battle of Atlanta, a crucial turning point in the war when Union forces prevailed. The battle is depicted in the Battle of Atlanta cyclorama at Atlanta History Center.
Atlanta Olympics CEO Billy Payne noticed this outside his office window.
A landfill that became the centerpiece of the Centennial Olympic Park.
This is Atlanta's original Name.
Terminus, a reference to the southern terminus of the Western & Atlantic Railroad. The city’s first official name was Marthasville, for Martha Lumpkin, daughter of Georgia Gov. Wilson Lumpkin. The city became known as Atlanta in 1845. Inspiration for the word “Atlanta” came from the Western & “Atlantic” Railroad.
This Atlanta restaurant was listed in the "Green Book Guide for Travel & Vacation-the Negro Travelers Guide", which directed African-Americans to safe places to eat and sleep during segregation?
Lucy Jackson's Busy Bee Cafe. Still in it's original location, it serves soul food.
The percentage of Fortune 1000 companies that have a presence in Atlanta.
75%