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Gone With The Wind
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Chapter-7 Like herself, the town was a mixture of the old and new in Georgia, in which the old often came off second best in its conflicts with the self-willed and vigorous new. happybruce2014 2024-11-30 0107 happybruce2014 2024-11-30 10:29
Chapter-7 Scarlett had always liked Atlanta for the very same reasons that made Savannah, Augusta and Macon condemn it. happybruce2014 2024-11-30 0114 happybruce2014 2024-11-30 10:29
Chapter-7 Atlanta did not care. happybruce2014 2024-11-30 0107 happybruce2014 2024-11-30 10:29
Chapter-7 Let the older towns call Atlanta anything they pleased. happybruce2014 2024-11-30 0102 happybruce2014 2024-11-30 10:29
Chapter-7 They were proud of the place, proud of its growth, proud of themselves for making it grow. happybruce2014 2024-11-30 0115 happybruce2014 2024-11-30 10:29
Chapter-7 They built their fine homes on Whitehall and Washington streets and along the high ridge of land on which countless generations of moccasined Indian feet had beaten a path called the Peachtree Trail. happybruce2014 2024-11-30 0118 happybruce2014 2024-11-30 10:28
Chapter-7 They built their stores around the five muddy red roads that crossed near the depot. happybruce2014 2024-11-30 0114 happybruce2014 2024-11-30 10:28
Chapter-7 They came with enthusiasm. happybruce2014 2024-11-30 0120 happybruce2014 2024-11-30 10:28
Chapter-7 Restless, energetic people from the older sections of Georgia and from more distant states were drawn to this town that sprawled itself around the junction of the railroads in its center. happybruce2014 2024-11-30 0111 happybruce2014 2024-11-30 10:28
Chapter-7 The people who settled the town called successively Terminus, Marthasville and Atlanta, were a pushy people. happybruce2014 2024-11-30 0111 happybruce2014 2024-11-30 10:28
Chapter-7 Why was the place so different from the other Georgia towns? Why did it grow so fast? After all, they thought, it had nothing whatever to recommend it��only its railroads and a bunch of mighty pushy people. happybruce2014 2024-11-30 0108 happybruce2014 2024-11-30 10:28
Chapter-7 The older, quieter cities were wont to look upon the bustling new town with the sensations of a hen which has hatched a duckling. happybruce2014 2024-11-30 0105 happybruce2014 2024-11-30 10:27
Chapter-7 In a space of time but little longer than Scarlett's seventeen years, Atlanta had grown from a single stake driven in the ground into a thriving small city of ten thousand that was the center of attention for the whole state. happybruce2014 2024-11-30 0128 happybruce2014 2024-11-30 10:24
Chapter-7 It had become the crossroads of travel north and south and east and west, and the little village leaped to life. happybruce2014 2024-11-30 0119 happybruce2014 2024-11-30 10:24
Chapter-7 With the completion of the four lines, Atlanta was now connected with the West, with the South, with the Coast and, through Augusta, with the North and East. happybruce2014 2024-11-30 0108 happybruce2014 2024-11-30 10:23
Chapter-7 Born of a railroad, Atlanta grew as its railroads grew. happybruce2014 2024-11-30 0113 happybruce2014 2024-11-30 10:23
Chapter-7 From the same junction point, the young Atlanta, a fourth railroad was constructed southwestward to Montgomery and Mobile. happybruce2014 2024-11-30 0114 happybruce2014 2024-11-30 10:23
Chapter-7 From the old city of Savannah, a third railroad was built first to Macon, in the heart of Georgia, and then north through Gerald's own county to Atlanta, to link up with the other two roads and give Savannah's harbor a highway to the West. happybruce2014 2024-11-30 0112 happybruce2014 2024-11-30 10:23
Chapter-7 From the old city of Augusta, a second railroad was extended westward across the state to connect with the new road to Tennessee. happybruce2014 2024-11-30 0114 happybruce2014 2024-11-30 10:22
Chapter-7 Then the railroad building era really began. happybruce2014 2024-11-30 0108 happybruce2014 2024-11-30 10:22
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