Atlanta

Atlanta was an important city in the "new south."

In 1880, Sister Cecilia Carroll, RSM, and three companions traveled from Savannah, Georgia to Atlanta to minister to the sick. With just 50 cents in their collective purse, the sisters opened the Atlanta Hospital, the first medical facility in the city after the Civil War.

Around 1900, Atlanta's wealthier inhabitants began to develop land north of the city. In 1904, Amos G. Rhodes (who had founded the Rhodes Furniture Company in 1875) built a mansion on Peachtree Street north of 10th Street called "Rhodes Hall".

In 1907, Peachtree Street, the main street of Atlanta, was busy with streetcars and automobiles.
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Jacob Skot: John Barlow: (1912-1927) Settled down with family and wrote for Jeffersonian (populist magazine) Gus Johnson : (1908-1917)**