This is the list of mayors of Atlanta — former mayors of the city of Atlanta. (Note: the first mayor presided over the city when its name was Marthasville.) A mayor (Latin maīor better) is the politician who serves as chief executive official of some types of municipalities. ... A city is an urban area, differentiated from a town, village, or hamlet by size, population density, importance, or legal status. ... This article is about the state capital of Georgia. ...
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Atlanta is arguably a poster-child for cities worldwide experiencing rapid urban sprawl, population growth, and commercial development.
Atlanta has such a great economic impact on the state and the surrounding region that cities and towns hundreds of miles away are considered 'exurbs', defined by the fact that people depend on their livelyhoods by commuting to work in the city, rapidly growing what is called Metro Atlanta.
Metropolitan Atlanta is crisscrossed by thirteen freeways (I-75, I-85, I-20, I-575, Georgia 400, Georgia 141, I-675, I-285, Georgia 316, I-985, The Stone Mountain Freeway, The Lakewood Freeway and the Downtown Connector).
Atlanta became the birthplace of the Coca-Cola empire--home to the company's founder, Asa Candler, who erected the Candler Building as a monument to himself, and the location of the early Dixie Coca-Cola Bottling Company Plant.
Another facet of the growing interest in the city's heritage was the Atlanta Historical Society's acquisition of the Swan House in Buckhead as its new headquarters, and two years later its relocation of the antebellum Tullie Smith house to the property as the centerpiece of a recreated vernacular homestead.
Rhodes was born in Kentucky in 1850, and married Amanda Wilmot Dougherty of Atlanta in 1876.
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