Metropolitan Frontiers: Atlanta, 1835-2000
Cost: $20.00Tour Length: Half Day
Activity Level: Easy to Moderate
From Indian settlements and the railroads, through the Civil War and Gone with the Wind, to the Civil Rights movement and the city's growth into an international metropolis and host of the 1996 Olympic Games, Atlanta's story is a fascinating one. That story is told in this ground-breaking exhibition with hundreds of rare objects, antique clothing, historic photographs, original documents, video presentations, and special areas for hands-on exploration.
Highlights include a bowl partially carved in a soapstone boulder, ca. 1000 B.C.; an entire 1894 shotgun house moved from southwest Atlanta; an 1898 horse-drawn fire engine with a steam-driven pump used by the Atlanta fire department in the city's tragic 1917 fire; a 1920 Hanson car built in Atlanta and one of only two known in existence; a scale model of the Tom Moreland Interchange at the intersection of I-285 and I-85, known as "Spaghetti Junction; and more. The exhibition also points visitors to historic sites in the city for further exploration.
Metropolitan Frontiers: Atlanta, 1835-2000 is funded in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and by the Georgia Council for the Arts and the Georgia Humanities Council through the Georgia Folklife Program.