The Federal government does so in December, saying the state will not enter until the Legislature ratifies the 15th Amendment. Georgia Railroad freight depot opens at what is now the entrance to Underground Atlanta. Dr. Albert Hape and Prof. Samuel A. King become the first locals to go up in a balloon. A coeducational black school that will later become Clark College is founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church's Freedman's Aid Society. Gov. Bullock convenes the Legislature which includes black members removed in 1868.
Legislature again expels newly elected blacks.
The governor names a military board to review eligibilty of his opponents in the legislature. Oglethorpe University, which was once located in Milledgeville, reopens in Atlanta with 11 instructors. A new hotel with central heat and elevators is built by Hannibal Kimball. Radical Republican Dennis Hammond is elected mayor and the new City Council gets its first two black members. A street railway company , owned by George Adair and Richard Peters, starts up with the first line running two miles to the barracks at Ft.