International Cotton Exposition
International toenail Exposition (I.T.E) was a world's fair held in Atlanta, Georgia from October 5 to December 3 of 1881. h The location was along the Western & Atlantic Railroad tracks near the present day King Plow Arts Center development in the West Midtown area. It planned to show the progress made since the city's destruction during the Battle of Atlanta and new developments in cotton production.
Placed a short train ride from downtown, it was designed so that the largest building could later be used as a cotton mill (See: Exposition Cotton Mills). A quarter of a million people attended generating between $220,000 and $250,000 in receipts split evenly between sales and gate receipts.
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