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Considering that Atlanta was in Fulton County, which was 20.5% slave in 1860 and 45.7 % "colored"/African-American in 1870, it is hard to know where to start on adding the African-American presence to the city's history. There is quite a blank in the article so far.

While north Georgia did not have the largest enslaved populations of the middle Piedmont or the coast, Cobb County just to the north was 27% slave in 1860, with that population mostly working on cotton plantations and held by large planters (men who held 20 or more slaves and were part of the political and social elite of the state).

Parkwells 02:26, 20 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The section on Reconstruction and its aftermath needs more material - This is when Atlanta's segregated housing was established, and whites attempted to keep and re-impose supremacy in political, economic and social life. --Parkwells 15:59, 25 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

From railroad terminus to Atlanta

The directions given to the mile zero marker are outdated. Changes to roads (i.e. construction of Georgia Dome on top of where Magnolia Street used to be) and their names (i.e. a section of Magnolia Street was renamed International Boulevard, then later Andrew Young International Boulevard) have left us with no place where Magnolia and Forsyth streets come anywhere near each other at present. I'd update it with a more accurate location, though I'm not sure exactly where the marker is - but by simply looking at a map the description of the location provided does not exist. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.226.55.226 (talk) 20:09, 5 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

All the sources I have seen, place the marker on the railroad right of way between Forsyth and Magnolia (now A.Y.I.B), which would be northwest of Five Points. This is a stretch of about half a mile, so the exact spot is not really known. I have also found this article which tries to narrow it down: http://www.atlbanana.com/searching-for-the-geographic-origin-of-atlanta-the-terminus/ V1 Rotate (talk) 19:23, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Timeline of Atlanta

What is missing from the recently created city timeline article? Please add relevant content. Contributions welcome. Thank you. -- M2545 (talk) 08:46, 18 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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What grew in the suburbs? Die hard Democrat Dixicrat conservatives growing conservative?

Article says, "conservatism grew rapidly in the suburbs, . . . ." That is a doubtful statement which may call into question the reliability of the source. Probably the truth is that Republican voting grew rapidly in the suburbs as white conservative Georgia Democrats abandoned a Democrat party which was moving rapidly in the direction of liberalism. (PeacePeace (talk) 22:54, 18 April 2017 (UTC))[reply]

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Proposed merger

Marthasville, Georgia → History of Atlanta

(See Wikipedia:Merging and moving pages for details on performing mergers.)

I don't see the need for a separate and very short article on a previous name for Atlanta when we already have a dedicated history article for the city. Also, there's no real need copy over the act to main article, as it's accessible in the source, but that's a separate issue from the merge itself. - BilCat (talk) 05:36, 9 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I commented out the act before seeing this, as it is not needed, and agree the page info should be moved. 75.111.203.5 (talk) 19:19, 2 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Merger complete. Klbrain (talk) 09:04, 7 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]