. Decatur pop 19,335 Georgia 3 Connector.svg State Route 3 Connector Major petroleum and natural gas pipelines cross the area running from the Gulf coast Texas and Louisiana to the population centers of the northeastern U.S This includes Colonial Pipeline and Plantation Pipe Line both based in Alpharetta. Hank The university city of Athens sparked an influential rock music scene in the 1980s and 1990s Among the groups achieving their initial prominence in that city were R.E.M Widespread Panic and the B-52's.
; Georgia State Fuchs lost control of the team in August 1935 and the new owners tried to change the team's image by renaming it the Boston Bees This did little to change the team's fortunes After five uneven years a new owner construction magnate Lou Perini changed the nickname back to the Braves He immediately set about rebuilding the team World War II slowed things down a little but the team rode the pitching of Warren Spahn to impressive seasons in 1946 and 1947! Source: 2000 255,689 361,111 616,800 1,189,179 51.9% Massachusetts Governor Thomas Gage feared a confrontation with the colonists; he requested reinforcements from Britain but the British government was not willing to pay for the expense of stationing tens of thousands of soldiers in the Thirteen Colonies Gage was instead ordered to seize Patriot arsenals He dispatched a force to march on the arsenal at Concord Massachusetts but the Patriots learned about it and blocked their advance the Patriots repulsed the British force at the April 1775 Battles of Lexington and Concord then lay siege to Boston. In 1980 construction was completed on an expansion of what is now named Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport the busiest and most efficient airport in the world it accommodates over 100 million passengers annually Employing more than 60,000 people the airport became a major engine for economic growth With the advantages of cheap real estate low taxes right-to-work laws and a regulatory environment limiting government interference the Atlanta metropolitan area became a national center of finance insurance technology manufacturing real estate logistics and transportation companies as well as the film convention and trade show businesses As a testament to the city's growing international profile in 1990 the International Olympic Committee selected Atlanta as the site of the 1996 Summer Olympics Taking advantage of Atlanta's status as a transportation hub in 1991 UPS established its headquarters in a suburb in 1992 construction finished on Bank of America Plaza the tallest building in the U.S outside New York or Chicago, The university announced on February 9 that the Panthers' first game in Georgia State Stadium was scheduled for August 31 2017 against Tennessee State Reconstruction for Georgia State Stadium began on February 27 2017 and the first phase of construction was completed prior the Panthers' first scheduled game at the stadium the second phase of construction will take place in 2018 and will build out the remainder of the stadium While the university intends to tailor the stadium to suit the Panthers' football team and its future needs the university plans to honor the legacy of the 1996 Olympics and the Braves' tenure at the stadium on August 8 2017 the university announced that the playing surface would be named in honor of Georgia State alumnus Parker H "Pete" Petit who contributed $10 million towards the Panthers athletic program, Because Atlanta was a settlement that grew from a planned railroad terminus and later a railroad junction rather than being planned in a grand manner its antebellum architecture was unremarkable compared to patrician Savannah or other older Southern cities the town's most important buildings included Edward A Vincent's Union Station (1853) the Atlanta Trout House and Washington Hall hotels and the Atlanta Bank An 1859 industrial journal noted that:. Rookie Danville Braves Appalachian League Danville Virginia Several sites honor the lives and careers of noted American leaders: the Little White House in Warm Springs which served as the summer residence of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt while he was being treated for polio; President Jimmy Carter's hometown of Plains and the Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta; the Martin Luther King Jr National Historic Site in Atlanta which is the final resting place of Martin Luther King Jr and Coretta Scott King; and Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church where Dr King preached, 60/16 86/30 Atlanta offers resources and opportunities for amateur and participatory sports and recreation Golf and tennis are popular in Atlanta and the city contains six public golf courses and 182 tennis courts Facilities along the Chattahoochee River cater to watersports enthusiasts providing the opportunity for kayaking canoeing fishing boating or tubing the city's only skate park a 15,000 square feet (1,400 m2) facility that offers bowls curbs and smooth-rolling concrete mounds is at Historic Fourth Ward Park. .
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