Atlanta and Environs: A Chronicle of Its People and Events (Volume One)
Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr
Published: Jun 01, 1969
Number of pages: 4
ISBN-13: 9780820302638
Description: Atlanta and Environs is, in every way, an exhaustive history of the Atlanta Area from the time of its settlement in the 1820s through the 1970s. Volumes I and II, together more than two thousand pages in length, represent a quarter century of research by their author, Franklin M. Garrett a man called "a walking encyclopedia on Atlanta history" by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. With the publication of Volume III, by Harold H. Martin, this chronicle of the South's most vibrant city incorporates the spectacular growth and enterprise that have characterized Atlanta in recent decades.