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Opinions on Atlanta?

What is your opinion on the city of Atlanta and the in-town suburbs?


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For what it's worth, here's a great site about Atlanta:

http://www.atlantatimemachine.com/downtown/list.htm

This guy collects archive photos of various spots in Atlanta and takes current photos at the same locations.

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Why are you YELLING!

https://www.wabe.org/why-ga-has-second-highest-number-counties-us/

"When you ask a group of Georgians how the state ended up with 159 counties, there’s a story you’ll probably hear: Georgia’s counties were designed so that farmers in a mule-drawn wagon could get to the courthouse and back within the course of a day.

According to this explanation, counties would have to be really small and so Georgia, a pretty big state, had to create a lot of them.

“That’s really an apocryphal story, as far as I know,” said Glenn Eskew, a history professor at Georgia State University. “I’ve never seen any law in the state code that stipulated that.”

Eskew says the mule drawn wagon explanation, even if not factual, does tell us something about why many of the state’s counties were created.

“In Georgia, the population was so rural and spread out, that by having a structure of the county government, you were able to connect the very disperse, rural population with some governmental entity,” he said.

But there is more to the story than that.

“One reason I think that Georgia has so many of these things, 159, was not just so that the citizens would be able to get access to government, but also so that rural Georgia would be able to control the state,” Eskew said."
Good story...can you tell us the story about RED CLOUD
 
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