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Atlanta & the North
ATLANTA: Now a booming services-industry centre with a population of over 400,000 (and a metro population topping four million), Atlanta – known as ‘The City in a Forest’ – most dramatically expresses the transition from Old South to New. Along its residential streets, magnolia and dogwood trees surround handsome Georgian-style homes, yet only blocks away, some of the country’s most dazzling contemporary buildings are rising at record speed to add to Atlanta’s ever-growing skyline.
The Georgia State Capitol on Washington Street on Capitol Square also houses the Georgia Hall of Fame and the Hall of Flags. The Tomb of Martin Luther King is located at the Ebenezer Baptist Church. The 14-storey CNN Center houses offices, a hotel, a sports arena and the headquarters of the CNN news agency. Underground Atlanta, a restored four-square block shopping and entertainment area, is located near the business centre of Atlanta and is home to the Zero Mile Post, which marks the city’s birthplace. Grant Park contains the Atlanta Zoo, the restored Confederate Fort Walker, and the Cyclorama, a world-famous 123m (406ft) circumference painting of the Battle of Atlanta. Piedmont Park has facilities for swimming and tennis.
THE NORTH: 24km (16 miles) east of downtown Atlanta is Stone Mountain, where gigantic representations of three Confederate heroes – Robert E Lee, Jefferson Davis and ‘Stonewall’ Jackson – have been carved into a cliff-face. Within easy travelling distance of Atlanta are: Augusta, home of the Masters Golf Tournament every April; Dahlonega, an old mining town, where visitors can still pan for gold; and Madison, a historic town that was spared from ruin during Sherman’s March. The nearby Pine Mountain area is noted for its Callaway Gardens and for President Franklin D Roosevelt’s Little White House at Warm Springs. In the old capital of Georgia, Milledgeville, there is a trolley tour six days a week around the town’s historic district.
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