Two years later the city adopted a new name-Atlanta. In 1843 the name of the town was changed to Marthasville, in honor of the daughter of former governor Wilson Lumpkin, who had played a key role in bringing the railroad to the area. Both of these actions sparked increased settlement and development in the upper Piedmont section of the state and led to Atlanta’s founding.
Railroad TerminusĪtlanta owes its origins to two important developments in the 1830s: the forcible removal of Native Americans (principally Creeks and Cherokees) from northwest Georgia and the extension of railroad lines into the state’s interior. Issues of race and race relations, dating back to the years before the Civil War (1861-65), have affected the layout of the city and its political structure, municipal services, educational institutions, and sometimes conflicting images as a segregated southern city and a “Black mecca.” And the Atlanta spirit-part civic boosterism, part vision, with a healthy dose of business interests and priorities-has provided the city with an ever-changing set of goals and definitions of what Atlanta is and what it can become. Transportation innovations and their connections to Atlanta helped establish the city as a state and regional center of commerce and finance. The three dominant forces affecting Atlanta’s history and development have been transportation, race relations, and the “Atlanta spirit.” At each stage in the city’s development, these three elements have come into play.
Atlanta Skyline Courtesy of Historic Preservation Division, Georgia Department of Community Affairs.Ītlanta was founded in 1837, a century after Savannah, the state’s oldest city.
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