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. 2000 416,474 5.7% Atlanta is home to professional franchises for four major team sports: the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League and Atlanta United FC of Major League Soccer the Braves who moved to Atlanta in 1966 were established as the Boston Red Stockings in 1871 and are the oldest continually operating professional sports franchise in the United States the Braves won the World Series in 1995 and had an unprecedented run of 14 straight divisional championships from 1991 to 2005 the Braves have a new home as of 2017 having moved from Turner Field to Suntrust Park which is in the Atlanta Metropolitan area 10 miles (16 km) northwest of downtown Atlanta in Cumberland/Galleria Georgia. Atlanta's 343 parks nature preserves and gardens cover 3,622 acres (14.66 km2) which amounts to only 5.6% of the city's total acreage compared to the national average of just over 10% However 64% of Atlantans live within a 10-minute walk of a park a percentage equal to the national average in its 2013 ParkScore ranking the Trust for Public Land reported that among the park systems of the 50 most populous U.S cities Atlanta's park system received a ranking of 31 Piedmont Park in Midtown is Atlanta's most iconic green space the park which underwent a major renovation and expansion in recent years attracts visitors from across the region and hosts cultural events throughout the year Other notable city parks include Centennial Olympic Park a legacy of the 1996 Summer Olympics that forms the centerpiece of the city's tourist district; Woodruff Park which anchors the campus of Georgia State University; Grant Park home to Zoo Atlanta; Chastain Park which houses an amphitheater used for live music concerts; and the under construction Westside Park at Bellwood Quarry the 280-acre green space and reservoir project slated to become the city's largest park when fully complete in the 2020s the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area in the northwestern corner of the city preserves a 48 mi (77 km) stretch of the river for public recreation opportunities.

6 Sports 3.1 Population White 71.0% 65.1% 59.7% June 8 2012 1.2 Move to Augusta 110 2311 Wagonways (or tramways) using wooden rails hauled by horses started appearing in the 1550s to facilitate the transport of ore tubs to and from mines and soon became popular in Europe Such an operation was illustrated in Germany in 1556 by Georgius Agricola in his work De re metallica This line used "Hund" carts with unflanged wheels running on wooden planks and a vertical pin on the truck fitting into the gap between the planks to keep it going the right way the miners called the wagons Hunde ("dogs") from the noise they made on the tracks. . Railroad management designed complex systems that could handle far more complicated simultaneous relationships than could be dreamed of by the local factory owner who could patrol every part of his own factory in a matter of hours Civil engineers became the senior management of railroads the leading American innovators were the Western Railroad of Massachusetts and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in the 1840s the Erie in the 1850s and the Pennsylvania in the 1860s. Vte Atlanta Georgia business directory Historical population. 73 2617 Of the 376,377 households 30.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them 35.7% were married couples living together 15.7% had a female householder with no husband present 44.4% were non-families and 35.4% of all households were made up of individuals the average household size was 2.36 and the average family size was 3.15 the median age was 34.2 years. . . Sat 21st 3.4 Religion Technology Square M Atlanta has had its own professional ice hockey franchises both of which relocated after playing in Atlanta less than 15 years the National Hockey League (NHL) has had two Atlanta franchises: the Atlanta Flames began play in 1972 before moving to Calgary in 1980 while the Atlanta Thrashers began play in 1999 before moving to Winnipeg in 2011 Atlanta also had an Alliance of American Football team the Atlanta Legends which played in 2019 but the league's football operations were reportedly suspended and the team folded.