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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
  - HIKimball house
- Chapter 35 of After the war : a southern tour : May 1, 1865, to May 1, 1866 / by Whitelaw Reid
  - demoralized Atlanta

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

1	Dusty in Memphis (2003)	Dusty Springfield
2	Forever Changes (2003)	Love
3	Harvest (2003)	Neil Young
4	The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society (2003)	The Kinks
5	Meat Is Murder (2003)	The Smiths
6	The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (2003)	Pink Floyd
7	ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits (2004)	ABBA
8	Electric Ladyland (2004)	The Jimi Hendrix Experience
9	Unknown Pleasures (2004)	Joy Division
10	Sign “o" the Times (2004)	Prince
11	The Velvet Underground & Nico (2004)	The Velvet Underground
12	Let It Be (2004)	The Beatles
13	Live at the Apollo (2004)	James Brown
14	Aqualung (2004)	Jethro Tull
15	OK Computer (2004)	Radiohead
16	Let It Be (2004)	The Replacements
17	Led Zeppelin IV (2005)	Led Zeppelin
18	Exile on Main St. (2005)	The Rolling Stones
19	Pet Sounds (2005)	The Beach Boys
20	Ramones (2005)	Ramones
21	Armed Forces (2005)	Elvis Costello
22	Murmur (2005)	R.E.M.
23	Grace (2005)	Jeff Buckley
24	Endtroducing..... (2005)	DJ Shadow
25	Kick Out the Jams (2005)	MC5
26	Low (2005)	David Bowie
27	Born in the U.S.A. (2005)	Bruce Springsteen
28	Music from Big Pink (2005)	The Band
29	In the Aeroplane over the Sea (2005)	Neutral Milk Hotel
30	Paul's Boutique (2006)	Beastie Boys
31	Doolittle (2006)	Pixies
32	There's a Riot Goin' On (2006)	Sly and the Family Stone
33	The Stone Roses (2006)	The Stone Roses
34	In Utero (2006)	Nirvana
35	Highway 61 Revisited (2006)	Bob Dylan
36	Loveless (2006)	My Bloody Valentine
37	The Who Sell Out (2006)	The Who
38	Bee Thousand (2006)	Guided by Voices
39	Daydream Nation (2006)	Sonic Youth
40	Court and Spark (2006)	Joni Mitchell
41	Use Your Illusion I and II (2006)	Guns N' Roses
69*	69 Love Songs (2006)	The Magnetic Fields
42	Songs in the Key of Life (2007)	Stevie Wonder
43	The Notorious Byrd Brothers (2007)	The Byrds
44	Trout Mask Replica (2007)	Captain Beefheart
45	Double Nickels on the Dime (2007)	Minutemen
46	Aja (2007)	Steely Dan
47	People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm (2007)	A Tribe Called Quest
48	Rid of Me (2007)	PJ Harvey
49	Achtung Baby (2007)	U2
50	If You're Feeling Sinister (2007)	Belle & Sebastian
51	Pink Moon (2007)	Nick Drake
52	Let's Talk About Love (2007)	Celine Dion
53	Swordfishtrombones (2007)	Tom Waits
54	20 Jazz Funk Greats (2008)	Throbbing Gristle
55	Horses (2008)	Patti Smith
56	Master of Reality (2008)	Black Sabbath
57	Reign in Blood (2008)	Slayer
58	Shoot Out the Lights (2008)	Richard and Linda Thompson
59	Gentlemen (2008)	The Afghan Whigs
60	Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash (2008)	The Pogues
61	The Gilded Palace of Sin (2008)	The Flying Burrito Brothers
62	Pink Flag (2009)	Wire
63	XO (2009)	Elliott Smith
64	Illmatic (2009)	Nas
65	Radio City (2009)	Big Star
66	One Step Beyond... (2009)	Madness
67	Another Green World (2009)	Brian Eno
68	Zaireeka (2009)	The Flaming Lips
70	Facing Future (2009)	Israel Kamakawiwoʻole
71	It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (2010)	Public Enemy
72	Wowee Zowee (2010)	Pavement
73	Highway to Hell (2010)	AC/DC
74	Song Cycle (2010)	Van Dyke Parks
75	Spiderland (2010)	Slint
76	Kid A (2010)	Radiohead
77	Tusk (2011)	Fleetwood Mac
78	Pretty Hate Machine (2011)	Nine Inch Nails
79	Chocolate and Cheese (2011)	Ween
80	American Recordings (2011)	Johnny Cash
81	Some Girls (2011)	The Rolling Stones
82	You're Living All Over Me (2011)	Dinosaur Jr.
83	Marquee Moon (2011)	Television
84	Amazing Grace (2011)	Aretha Franklin
85	Dummy (2011)	Portishead
86	Fear of Music (2012)	Talking Heads
87	Histoire de Melody Nelson (2013)	Serge Gainsbourg
88	Flood (2013)	They Might Be Giants
89	I Get Wet (2014)	Andrew W.K.
90	Selected Ambient Works Volume II (2014)	Aphex Twin
91	Entertainment! (2014)	Gang of Four
92	Blank Generation (2014)	Richard Hell and the Voidoids
93	Donuts (2014)	J Dilla
94	Smile (2014)	The Beach Boys
95	Definitely Maybe (2014)	Oasis
96	Exile in Guyville (2014)	Liz Phair
97	My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2014)	Kanye West
98	The Grey Album (2014)	Danger Mouse
99	( ) (2014)	Sigur Rós
100	Dangerous (2014)	Michael Jackson
101	Tago Mago (2014)	Can
102	Ode to Billie Joe (2014)	Bobbie Gentry
103	Live Through This (2014)	Hole
104	Freedom of Choice (2015)	Devo
105	Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables (2015)	Dead Kennedys
106	Super Mario Bros. (2015)	Koji Kondo
107	Beat Happening (2015)	Beat Happening
108	Metallica (2015)	Metallica
109	A Live One (2015)	Phish
110	Bitches Brew (2015)	Miles Davis
111	Parallel Lines (2016)	Blondie
112	Workingman's Dead (2016)	Grateful Dead
113	Hangin' Tough (2016)	New Kids on the Block
114	The Geto Boys (2016)	The Geto Boys
115	Dig Me Out (2016)	Sleater-Kinney
116	Sound of Silver (2016)	LCD Soundsystem

Sortable MARTA boardings table 2011 data

† denotes terminal station

Station	Code	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]

^ ^a ^b Roughton, Jr., Bert (June 18, 1988). "Rail-to-air link completed with opening of airport station". The Atlanta Journal Constitution. p. A1.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g 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)
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e AP Reporters (December 21, 1979). "Atlanta Rapid rail opens second leg". The Rock Hill Herald. p. 14.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Hairston, Julie B. (June 30, 2004). "MARTA marks 25 years of trains: Next stop unknown". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. p. B1.
^ ^a ^b Beasley, David (December 6, 1992). "MARTA trains to roll at Bankhead, Doraville". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. p. E15.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e AJC Editorial Staff (May 16, 1985). "Atlanta's air, rail transportation among nation's best". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. p. E5.
^ ^a ^b ^c 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.
^ ^a ^b 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.
^ ^a ^b Shelton, Stacy (December 18, 2000). "MARTA christens 2 new stations – North Fulton riders report few problems". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. p. B1.