Is Underground Atlanta underground? Why is it named that?
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Underground Atlanta History\n\n1836 - 1860: Atlanta Begins as a Railroad Town\n\nIn the antebellum South, cotton was king, and the prosperity of the planters depended on moving that all-important crop from plantation to market.  In 1836, the State of Georgia chartered the 138-mile-long Western & Atlantic Railroad, linking Chattanooga to mid-Georgia.  To this day, the Zero Milepost still stands next to Underground Atlanta, marking the southern end of that line.  As other rail lines built up, a bustling new community emerged at the crossroads, a town which would come to bear the names Terminus, Thrasherville, Marthasville, and finally, Atlanta.   On the eve of the Civil War, Atlanta – with a population of 10,000 – had already become the trade and cultural center of the South.  Lower Alabama Street, between Peachtree Street and Central Avenue, was the city's center, which was to become Underground Atlanta.\n\n1861 - 1864: Atlanta Becomes a Confederate Supply  Depot\n\nThe State of Georgia seceded from the Union in January 1861.  The Civil War, bloodiest of American conflicts, raged for four years.  Atlanta was the railroad center of the South, and a prime target for Union commanders.  General William T. Sherman, known for his scorched-earth tactics, had Atlanta in the crosshairs.  Union troops shelled the city’s center in The Battle of Atlanta, on July 22, 1864.  A gas lamp damaged in the assault still stands inside Underground Atlanta at Peachtree and Lower Alabama Streets. In “Gone with the Wind”, author Margaret Mitchell writes about the railroad depot, which stood where Underground is now, between Pryor Street and Central Avenue.  Scarlett O'Hara and doctors worked frantically over Confederate soldiers inside the depot, which became a triage hospital.  General Sherman burned the depot – and nearly everything else in Atlanta – to the ground.  One month after the siege began, Atlanta was surrendered to federal troops.  A Union camp was established near Underground Atlanta.\n\n1866-1920: "The Phoenix City" Rises from the Ashes\n\nAfter the war, heartbroken yet determined Atlantans sifted through the rubble of their once great city to start anew.  Reconstruction efforts zeroed in (again) around the Zero Milepost.  Atlanta became a boomtown, and would double its population to 22,000 in just five years.  In 1869, engineers with the Georgia Railroad Freight Depot built an impressive three-story head house, state-of-the-art in its time.  Called Union Station Depot, a single-story structure still remains to this day, and stands next to Underground Atlanta.  It is the oldest building downtown.  In the 1870's, a bustling business district emerged nearby.  Banks, hotels, saloons, grain wholesalers, law offices, and a whiskey distillery all sprang up near the train station.  Packinghouse Row, which comes to life in present-day Underground Atlanta, was on the northern side of Lower Alabama Street between Pryor and Central.  In 1887, just one-half block from Union Station, Coca-Cola was first served at Jacob's Pharmacy on Peachtree Street.  By 1900, Union Station Depot served 100 trains a day with direct rail service from New York, Cincinnati, Knoxville, Chattanooga, Macon, Augusta and Columbus. By 1910, several iron bridges had been constructed to cross the rail tracks at Union Street. Local architect Haralson Bleckley proposed that new concrete bridges be built to replace the iron bridges. A linear mall at bridge level would connect the concrete viaducts and create a series of public plazas.\n\n1920 - 1929: The Viaducts Create a “City Beneath the Streets”\n\nAs the new century took off, Atlanta began to take on a new look.  Following the Chicago School of architecture, multi-story "skyscraper" office buildings cropped-up in the downtown area, and the city became a business and retail center.  In the 1920's, construction of concrete "viaducts" elevated the streets of downt
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Yes.  The underground railroad was not a real railroad.  It involved basically smuggling people through Southern states until they reached a Northern state where there was no slavery.
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It's most probably it's metro system, called the 'tube', or London Underground. But the way you put the question is a little bit strange ... what do you mean by 'infrastructure'?
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That's why they're called downtown: if they didnt, it wouldnt be 'downtown' anymore. downtown is supposed to be the CENTER of everything. Its like this: someone puts an important building (like a company building) somewhere. People want to live close. And then other people go and put there companies and buildings and shops there because of the people. And then it gets crammed. \n\nits just as simple as that.
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B\n\nAtlanta was a hub for the southern rail system. They also had industry for producing arms for the southern military.\n\nSherman had orders not to level Atlanta, however he was told not to allow the trains to fall back in to southern hands, so he burnt them. The fire spread to the city and well the rest is history.
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-Atlanta boasts a variety of museums on subjects ranging from history to fine arts, natural history, and beverages. Prominent among them are sites honoring Atlanta's participation in the civil rights movement. Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in the city, and his boyhood home on Auburn Avenue in the Sweet Auburn district is preserved as the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site. Meetings with other civil rights leaders, including Hosea Williams and current Congressman John Lewis, often happened at Paschal's, a diner and motor inn which was a favorite for "colored" people, banned from "white" restaurants in an era of racial segregation and intolerance. King's final resting place is in the tomb at the center of the reflecting pool at the King Center.\n\nOther history museums and attractions include the Atlanta History Center; the Atlanta Cyclorama and Civil War Museum (a huge painting and diorama in-the-round, with a rotating central audience platform, that depicts the Battle of Atlanta in the Civil War); the Carter Center and Presidential Library; and the Margaret Mitchell House and Museum.\n\nThe arts are represented by several theaters and museums, including the Fox Theatre. The Woodruff Arts Center is home to the Alliance Theatre, Atlanta Symphony, High Museum of Art, and Atlanta College of Art. Museums geared specifically towards children include the Fernbank Science Center and Imagine It! Atlanta's Children's Museum. The High Museum of Art is the city's major fine/visual arts venue, with a significant permanent collection and an assortment of traveling exhibitions. The Atlanta Opera, which was founded in 1979 by members of two struggling local companies, is arguably the most important opera company in the southeastern United States and enjoys a growing audience and international reputation.\n\nAtlanta features the world's largest aquarium, the Georgia Aquarium, which officially opened to the public on November 23, 2005. The aquarium features over 100,000 specimens in tanks holding approximately eight million gallons of water. One unique museum is the World of Coca-Cola featuring the history of the world famous soft drink brand and its well-known advertising. Adjacent is Underground Atlanta, a historic shopping and entertainment complex situated under the streets of downtown Atlanta. In addition the Atlantic Station, a huge new urban renewal project on the northwestern edge of Midtown Atlanta, officially opened in October of 2005. While not a museum per se, The Varsity is the main branch of the long-lived fast food chain, featured as the world's largest drive-in restaurant.\n\nThe heart of the city's festivals is Piedmont Park. In 1887, a group of prominent Atlantans purchased 189 acres (0.76 km²) of farmland to build a horse racing track, later developed into the site of the Cotton States International Exposition of 1895. In 1904, the city council purchased the land for $99,000, and today it is the largest park in metro Atlanta, with more than 2.5 million visitors each year. The grounds were part of the Battle of Peachtree Creek – a Confederate division occupied the northern edge on July 20, 1864 as part of the outer defense line against Sherman's approach. Next to the park is the Atlanta Botanical Garden. Zoo Atlanta, home to its own panda exhibit, is located in Grant Park.\n\nJust east of the city, Stone Mountain is the largest piece of exposed granite in the world. On its face are giant carvings of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Stonewall Jackson. It is also the site of impressive laser shows in the summer. A few miles west of Atlanta on I-20 is the Six Flags Over Georgia Theme Park, which opened near the city in 1967, and was the second theme park in the Six Flags chain.\n\nPopular annual cultural events include:\n\nAtlanta Dogwood Festival, a Spring arts and crafts festival at Piedmont Park. \nMusic Midtown - Three-day music fest
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Tool and a Perfect circle are my favorites. I love underground.\n\nI also like hard core thugged out nigga gangsta music for real. but perfect cirlce and tool are my favorites
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There is one in or near Monroe, GA. I hear they may be building one closer to Atlanta, possibly Stone Mountain, but I don't think there is one there now.
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an easy way of saying it is Industrialized has that sound of the keyboard behind it (most of the time) and underground is more of a hard rap
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I hate to say it but I'm from Atlanta, thank the lord I'm not from the 4th District otherwise I'd move.\n\nShe's just another "race card" playing idiot like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Ray Nagin.
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If you call the local police dept and ask, they have to tell you if they are there.  It is public record.  Althought that might be had in Atlanta.
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I am Chingy. Just kidding.\n\nWell, if you ever want to know the album names, go to www.cdnow.com\n\nI'll try to help you out though...no, I cant.\n\nJermaine Dupri sings Welcome to Atlanta though. Good luck!
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Porn is determined by "community standards," so it depends on where you live. Metro Atlanta would probably have no restrictions other than those adopted as federal standards (child, animal, etc.)\n\nAdditional::\n\n"With the exception of child pornography, the legal status of Internet pornography is still somewhat unsettled. The legality of pornography has been traditionally determined by the Miller test, which dictates that community standards are to be used in determining whether a piece of material is obscene. Thus, if a local community determines a pornographic work to meet its standard for obscenity then it could be banned."\n\nSource: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_Internet_pornography
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The word 'Source' makes no sense.  Do you mean resource?  In that case, I'd call it 'mass transit'.
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Interestingly enough, the reason a 'flat' is called that is to distinguish it from a house. Homes used to be very skinny, with several small stories stacked on upon another. The single apartment, with neither upstairs nor downstairs, was called a 'flat' dwelling. If you lived in a flat it was a given that you were just a renter, and not a homeowner. \nCigarettes are called fags as an abbreviation for faggot, which means a bundle of burning sticks and that's what cigarettes looked like to people, when they were first introduced. Elevators are called lifts (because that's what they do).\nThere are also differences in spelling, such as tyre for tire. The bottom line is that the English language evolved in Britain, and many of them think the language used in North America has gotten completely out of hand and strayed far from its roots!\nI, too, enjoy reading English novels and particularily enoy some of the characters that inhabit the backgrounds of the stories. \nHope this is useful.\nHmmm -- checking this before sending it out, I notice that Yahoo has put in a row of asterisks where I had spelled out the complete word that means a bundle of sticks. Try looking up eff, aye, gee, gee, oh, tee in your dictionary, and you'll see that it is a word with absolutely no sexual significance whatsover.
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Back in 1987, it was near Hyde Park, specifically Inverness Rd, between Queensbay & Bayswater Tube Stations. I was there on vacation with my Mom & was completely safe walking around alone.  I imagine it hasn't changed as it was an established area. Tube (underground subway) is very convenient - especially when you get the unlimited monthly pass.
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The new eternal flame device was fed by an underground line designed and created by the Institute of Gas Technology of Chicago. However, the flame had been temporarily diverted and continued to burn during this period.\n\nJackie O came up with the idea and officially "lit" the flame after JFKs burial service.  There is a similar flame for the Unknown Solider and the Arch de Triumph