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Marine mammal: right whale Fulton County was created in 1853 from the western half of DeKalb County it was named in honor of Hamilton Fulton a railroad official who acted as surveyor for the Western and Atlantic Railroad and also as chief engineer of the state After surveying the area that is now Fulton County Fulton convinced state officials that a railroad rather than a canal should be constructed to connect Milledgeville then the state capital to Chattanooga Tennessee Building the railroad was a precursor of Fulton County's prominence as a major transportation center Organized as settlement increased in the Piedmont section of upland Georgia Fulton County grew rapidly after the American Civil War as Atlanta was rebuilt becoming a center of railroad shipping industry and business, 71/22 86/30 2.6 Guest Rewards 5.6.1 Asia Map of part of Midtown Atlanta 1895. . Atlanta 52/11 All portions of Fulton County outside of the city limits of Atlanta are served by the Fulton County School System, Mauritius (26) Main article: List of people from Georgia (U.S state).

! . Then an off day, Atlanta Georgia business directory Spalding (65,380) An extinct fault line called the Brevard Fault runs roughly parallel to the Chattahoochee River but as its last movements were apparently prehistoric it is considered extinct and not a threat to the region Still minor earthquakes do rattle the area (and all of Georgia) occasionally One notable one was in April 2003 (magnitude 4.6) coming from the northwest its epicenter just across the state line in northeastern Alabama While many people slept through the 5A.M quake it caused a minor panic in others completely unaware of what was happening Similar earthquakes occur in this region called the Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone often felt much more widely across the stronger crust of eastern North America as compared to the west Thus the 1886 Charleston South Carolina earthquake was also felt in Atlanta and throughout the Southeast it caused damage as far as central Alabama and West Virginia Two small earthquakes were also felt on the southeast side near Eatonton in early April 2009 the New Madrid Seismic Zone (near the Missouri-Tennessee borders) and the seismic zone producing the 1886 magnitude 7.3 earthquake are still capable of producing moderate or major earthquakes which the entire Atlanta area will feel moderately or even strongly. In early 1861 Georgia joined the Confederacy (with secessionists having a slight majority of delegates) and became a major theater of the Civil War Major battles took place at Chickamauga Kennesaw Mountain and Atlanta in December 1864 a large swath of the state from Atlanta to Savannah was destroyed during General William Tecumseh Sherman's March to the Sea 18,253 Georgian soldiers died in service roughly one of every five who served in 1870 following the Reconstruction Era Georgia became the last Confederate state to be restored to the Union, Georgia's major fine art museums include the High Museum of Art and the Michael C Carlos Museum both in Atlanta; the Georgia Museum of Art on the campus of the University of Georgia in Athens; Telfair Museum of Art and the SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah; and the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, The causes of this decline were heavily debated the National Highway System and airports both funded by the government competed directly with the railroads who paid for their own infrastructure Progressive Era rate regulation limited the railroad's ability to turn a profit Railroads also faced antiquated work rules and inflexible relationships with trade unions to take one example workers continued to receive a day's pay for 100-to-150-mile (160 to 240 km) work days Streamliners covered that in two hours. Traditions Centerville (CDP) pop 7,148 Main article: Music of Georgia (U.S state) The Savannah Historic District attracts over eleven million tourists each year. .