I'm an intown Atlanta resident and love the city
Things I can never remember
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To Do
- Pages for streetcar routes like 3, 17
- History of Atlanta book http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jolomo/Books/AtlantaHistory
- Redo this image and post
Homicide rate by month (2002-2005) - Freedom Park (Atlanta)
- Stone Mountain Trail
- Chastain Park Trail
- Arabia Mountain Trail
- South Decatur Trolley Trail
- Westside Trail
- PATH (Atlanta)
- PATH infobox with trail length, part of town, ease, "combined with street traffic?", etc
- Separate Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta Journal and Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- Mechanics of a classic Grain elevator
- Attempting to get all the info scrounged away on my website into Wikipedia
- Flesh out Category:Atlanta neighborhoods
- William B. Hartsfield should be a much longer article
- Early history of Coca-Cola Company
- Pioneer Atlanta jibes well with F.Garrett
- Create a List of Atlanta viaducts and (possibly) pages for all of them (Wall, Alabama, Spring, Peachtree, Broad, Forsyth, Courtland, Techwood) with pictures of plaques
Mostly Done
projects that used to be on the To Do list
- Add a Joel Hurt page
- History of Atlanta's Ward System
- Add a Lemuel P. Grant page
- Mayors of Atlanta I'm combing through all my history books to try to put together at least a small bio on each mayor
- Article on journalist Alexander St. Clair-Abrams
- Georgia section of U.S. Highway 23
- MARTA makeover -- possibly a Wikiproject
- Make a map that can be color-marked for each intown neighborhood
- The ultimate Brewer & Shipley section w/album covers, etc
Articles started
Maurice Barrymore, Duke Pearson, Lemuel P. Grant, Richard Peters (Atlanta), Battle of Kettle Creek, Brewer & Shipley, Wine tasting, Alex St. Clair Abrams, James Vann, Great Atlanta fire of 1917, Puritan (yacht), Breeze Card, Augusta Canal
Neat Stuff
- I was looking at Thessaloniki and noticed a cool little color chart for the climate which I adapted to Atlanta. Since then it has appeared on Portland, Oregon, Boston, Massachusetts & Baltimore, Maryland — cool!
Book Sources
Most of my Atlanta articles rely on the following books
- Atlanta 1847-1890 (1988) James Michael Russell
- Atlanta and Environs (1954) Franklin Garrett
- Atlanta and Its Builders (1902) Thomas Martin
- Mule to MARTA (1976) Jean Martin
- The Trolley Titans (1981) O.E. Carson
Atlanta music
- Pickin' on Peachtree: A History of Country Music in Atlanta, Georgia (2002), Wayne Daniel, UofI Press, ISBN 0-252-06968-4
- Music and the Making of a New South (2004), Gavin James Campbell, UNC Press (funny William Lawson Peel stories)
Primary Sources
These online sources are interesting as well
- Digital Library of Georgia
- Chapters 13, 14 & 15 of The southern states since the war, 1870-71 / by Robert Somers
- Chapter 35 of After the war : a southern tour : May 1, 1865, to May 1, 1866 / by Whitelaw Reid
Awesome Tools
Articles to ReRead
Perhaps Noteworthy
- from first air mail from Atlanta. Contained in the first mail sent to New York by air from Atlanta is a $9,000 check from the Atlanta federal reserve bank to the New York federal reserve; letters from Mayor Walter A. Sims to Mayor Walker of New York, and to mayor Cook, letters from Postmaster Large to Postmaster Downing, of Fayetteville, Postmaster General New in Washington, D.C., and to Postmaster Kiely, of New York. Also a letter from the president of the Altanta Junior Chamber to the president of the New York Junior Board of Trade.
Checklist for 33 1/3 books
Sortable MARTA boardings table 2011 data
† denotes terminal station
| Station | Code | Lines | WKDay | Sat | Sun | Opened | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Airport† | S7 | 9603 | 7583 | 8255 | June 18, 1988 | [1] | |
| Arts Center | N5 | 6830 | 4198 | 2423 | December 18, 1982 | [2] | |
| Ashby | W3 | 1840 | 1329 | 934 | December 22, 1979 | [3] | |
| Avondale | E7 | 4668 | 2372 | 1468 | June 30, 1979 | [4] | |
| Bankhead† | P4 | 2270 | 1247 | 821 | December 12, 1992 | [5] | |
| Brookhaven/Oglethorpe | NE8 | 2494 | 1434 | 950 | December 15, 1984 | [6] | |
| Buckhead | N7 | 2360 | 1620 | 1109 | June 8, 1996 | [7] | |
| Chamblee | NE9 | 3925 | 2120 | 1563 | December 19, 1987 | [8] | |
| Civic Center | N2 | 2627 | 978 | 739 | December 4, 1981 | [2] | |
| College Park | S6 | 9271 | 5856 | 4398 | June 18, 1988 | [1] | |
| Decatur | E6 | 4358 | 2348 | 1541 | June 30, 1979 | [4] | |
| Dome/GWCC/Philips Arena/CNN Center | W1 | 2481 | 4613 | 2937 | December 22, 1979 | [3] | |
| Doraville† | NE10 | 5331 | 3049 | 2099 | December 12, 1992 | [5] | |
| Dunwoody | N9 | 3727 | 2410 | 1557 | June 8, 1996 | [7] | |
| East Lake | E5 | 1348 | 729 | 540 | June 30, 1979 | [4] | |
| East Point | S5 | 4754 | 2812 | 1973 | August 16, 1986 | [9] | |
| Edgewood/Candler Park | E4 | 1300 | 718 | 484 | June 30, 1979 | [4] | |
| Five Points* | – | 22248 | 12952 | 7622 | December 22, 1979 (East–West) December 4, 1981 (North–South) |
[4] | |
| Garnett | S1 | 1684 | 1073 | 852 | December 4, 1981 | [2] | |
| Georgia State | E1 | 4590 | 1351 | 959 | June 30, 1979 | [4] | |
| H. E. Holmes† | W5 | 6823 | 4579 | 3055 | December 22, 1979 | [3] | |
| Indian Creek† | E9 | 5781 | 3612 | 2581 | June 26, 1993 | [10] | |
| Inman Park/Reynoldstown | E3 | 2963 | 2256 | 1538 | June 30, 1979 | [4] | |
| Kensington | E8 | 7016 | 4366 | 3204 | June 26, 1993 | [10] | |
| King Memorial | E2 | 1497 | 1017 | 686 | June 30, 1979 | [4] | |
| Lakewood/Fort McPherson | S4 | 2146 | 1256 | 885 | December 15, 1984 | [6] | |
| Lenox | NE7 | 3466 | 3356 | 1978 | December 15, 1984 | [6] | |
| Lindbergh Center | N6 | 9294 | 6146 | 4544 | December 15, 1984 | [6] | |
| Medical Center | N8 | 1561 | 484 | 363 | June 8, 1996 | [7] | |
| Midtown | N4 | 5664 | 3509 | 2774 | December 18, 1982 | [2] | |
| North Avenue | N3 | 5378 | 3099 | 1947 | December 4, 1981 | [2] | |
| North Springs† | N11 | 6199 | 2937 | 2298 | December 16, 2000 | [11] | |
| Oakland City | S3 | 4718 | 3219 | 2268 | December 15, 1984 | [6] | |
| Peachtree Center | N1 | 7421 | 4377 | 3111 | September 11, 1982 | [2] | |
| Sandy Springs | N10 | 2356 | 1008 | 664 | December 16, 2000 | [11] | |
| Vine City | W2 | 1081 | 1228 | 1039 | December 22, 1979 | [3] | |
| West End | S2 | 7275 | 4832 | 3013 | September 11, 1982 | [2] | |
| West Lake | W4 | 1848 | 1235 | 921 | December 22, 1979 | [3] |
- Roughton, Jr., Bert (June 18, 1988). "Rail-to-air link completed with opening of airport station". The Atlanta Journal Constitution. p. A1.
- Beasley, David (February 23, 1992). "After two decades, MARTA's course uncertain". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. p. A1.
{{cite news}}: Unknown parameter|coauthor=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - AP Reporters (December 21, 1979). "Atlanta Rapid rail opens second leg". The Rock Hill Herald. p. 14.
- Hairston, Julie B. (June 30, 2004). "MARTA marks 25 years of trains: Next stop unknown". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. p. B1.
- Beasley, David (December 6, 1992). "MARTA trains to roll at Bankhead, Doraville". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. p. E15.
- AJC Editorial Staff (May 16, 1985). "Atlanta's air, rail transportation among nation's best". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. p. E5.
- Goldberg, David (June 8, 1996). "Suburban transit – North Line worth risk for MARTA". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. p. E2.
- Roughton, Jr., Bert (December 20, 1987). "MARTA officials open Chamblee rail station amid union protests". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. p. B3.
- Roughton, Jr., Bert (August 17, 1986). "East Point starts a new era – First MARTA train pulls in as city observes 99th year". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. p. B1.
- Beasley, David (June 25, 1993). "Transit expansion – MARTA on the move – New stations push rail system beyond the Perimeter". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. p. D1.
- Shelton, Stacy (December 18, 2000). "MARTA christens 2 new stations – North Fulton riders report few problems". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. p. B1.