. Atlanta, yesterday, today and tomorrow. ><^. FROM HAMLET TO CITY 17 and hardship. Some four thousand of the Indiansdied also. As individuals are born in hours of agony, soalso are empires, but, 0, the tragedy of it! The eviction of the Indians from Georgia beganon May 24, 1838, five years after the first househad been built upon the ground where Atlantanow stands. This cabin remained the only one inthe vicinity until about the time the Indians werescheduled to go. Then in 1839, with much talk ofrailroads coming in, the solitude began to be brok-en by the sound of the axe and the saw. J
. Atlanta, yesterday, today and tomorrow. ><^. FROM HAMLET TO CITY 17 and hardship. Some four thousand of the Indiansdied also. As individuals are born in hours of agony, soalso are empires, but, 0, the tragedy of it! The eviction of the Indians from Georgia beganon May 24, 1838, five years after the first househad been built upon the ground where Atlantanow stands. This cabin remained the only one inthe vicinity until about the time the Indians werescheduled to go. Then in 1839, with much talk ofrailroads coming in, the solitude began to be brok-en by the sound of the axe and the saw. JohnThrasher, a merchant, came in and erected ahouse, and was followed by. several others. ThenThrasher laid the first stone in what was to be-come a mighty commercial structure by opening ageneral merchandise stores tinder the name ofJohnson and Thrasl^er. , Btit, if anyone shouldhave asked Mr. Thrasher the (Commonplace ques-tion, ^^Hows business? he would not have foundthe gentleman very enthusiastic, for trade lang-uished to such an extent that t
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