Historic Nicknames
- Gate City, Gate City of the South, or Gate City of the New South (from Reconstruction through the early 20th century)
- New York of the South (1870s–1890s)
- Chicago of the South (1880s–1900s) - for Atlanta's "new men, new industries, new buildings, and new spirit" - though it was often remarked that the nickname was not quite accurate in terms of the size of Atlanta vs. the much larger Chicago
- The City Too Busy to Hate (during Jim Crow and the Civil Rights struggle)
- Dogwood City
- Convention City of Dixie (Land) (1910s–1920s)
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“If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?”
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