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D ? Libya (5), 1.4 Contemporary Era Radio 105.7, During the first decades of the 20th century Atlanta experienced a period of unprecedented growth in three decades' time Atlanta's population tripled as the city limits expanded to include nearby streetcar suburbs the city's skyline emerged with the construction of the Equitable Flatiron Empire and Candler buildings; and Sweet Auburn emerged as a center of black commerce the period was also marked by strife and tragedy Increased racial tensions led to the Atlanta Race Riot of 1906 which left at least 27 people dead and over 70 injured in 1913 Leo Frank a Jewish-American factory superintendent was convicted of the murder of a 13-year-old girl in a highly publicized trial He was hanged in Marietta by a lynch mob in 1915 after having his death sentence commuted an event which deeply impacted the Jewish community in Atlanta and across the country on May 21 1917 the Great Atlanta Fire destroyed 1,938 buildings in what is now the Old Fourth Ward resulting in one fatality and the displacement of 10,000 people; Eddie Mathews, Liberia (5), 1.3 Conversion to Georgia State Stadium Douglasville pop 30,961. The World of Coca-Cola Tom Glavine Contents Est 2018 10,519,475 8.6% Interstate 85 passes through from Montgomery on the southwest and from Greenville on the northeast I-75 merges with I-85 to form the Downtown Connector from the Brookwood Interchange just north of Midtown Atlanta to just south of the Lakewood Freeway in south Atlanta Interstate 185 is a spur which merges with I-85 in LaGrange and stretches southward to Columbus Interstate 985 is a spur which merges with I-85 in Suwanee and serves the northern suburbs of Gwinnett and Hall Counties it terminates just northeast of Gainesville!

East Florida and West Florida were territories transferred from Spain to Britain after the French and Indian War by treaty the few British colonists there needed protection from attacks by Indians and Spanish privateers After 1775 East Florida became a major base for the British war effort in the South especially in the invasions of Georgia and South Carolina However Spain seized Pensacola in West Florida in 1781 then recovered both territories in the Treaty of Paris that ended the war in 1783 Spain ultimately transferred the Florida provinces to the United States in 1819, M 1% Marietta pop 56,579, 1.3 On to Louisville 35/2 Frontier Airlines Ecology. The Georgia Bulldogs (Southeastern Conference) Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (Atlantic Coast Conference) Georgia State Panthers and Georgia Southern Eagles (Sun Belt Conference) are Georgia's NCAA Division I FBS football teams having won multiple national championships between them the Georgia Bulldogs and the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets have a historical rivalry in college football known as Clean Old-Fashioned Hate and the Georgia State Panthers and the Georgia Southern Eagles have recently developed their own rivalry. 125 199 20 Josh Donaldson Hispanic Americans are the fastest growing ethnic group at 10.4% of the metro's population in 2010 versus only 6.5% in 2000 the metro's Hispanic population increased an astounding 109.6% or 298,459 people in ten years Major Hispanic groups include 354,351 Mexicans 43,337 Puerto Ricans and 17,648 Cubans All of those groups' populations increased by over 90% in the ten-year period Of the metro's 299,000-person increase in the Hispanic population from 2000 to 2010 98,000 came in Gwinnett County 57,000 in Cobb 55,000 in Fulton (all but 3,000 outside the city of Atlanta) 20,000 in Hall and 15,000 in DeKalb County. Number of athletes, Professional baseball's Ty Cobb was the first player inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame He was from Narrows and was nicknamed the "Georgia Peach.", Atlanta is home to one of the nation's largest gay pride festivals Atlanta Pride as well as what is billed as the world's largest black gay pride celebration Atlanta Black Pride!