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Vol. I.
SUMMER and WINTER
In Georgia,
By H. T. GATCHELL, M. 1).,
Atlanta, Ga.
[ Oopyrigtited, 1886.:
Atlanta has been written of, in a\
general way, as a health resort for dwel
lers in the low lands of the South.
It is the intention of the writer to
present some data to show that it is
among the best of the low altitude re
sorts for invalids from both north and
south of it.
The city is built on the Chattahoo
chee ridge, at an elevati n of 1,085
feet ab )ve sea-level. The ridge runs
from the Blue Ridge Mountains, in
the northeastern county of the State
of Georgia, with an extreme elevation
of 1,610 feet, and an average width of
fifteen miles, to a point twenty five
miles southwest of Atlanta, where it
-dips into the general level of the coun
try at an elevation of 500 feet.
Northwest of the city the country
descends to the Chattahoochee riv r,
six miles distant, where it rises again,
until 20 miles up the W estern & Atlantic •
Railroad, near Kennesaw Mountain,
at Marietta, it is at an elevation of over
1,100 feet.
The country in and about Atlanta
is seamed and* scarred by the erosive
forces of nature, leaving the Chatta
hoochee ridge to mark the firmer
southern limit of the Blue Ridge Moun
tains in Georgia.
The geological formation is arch
jean, or mother rocks disintegrated to
form a soil not at all detrimental to
health, and responding to fertilizers as
quickly as any other soil in the South,
and when properly tilled, rewarding
the husbandman liberally.
Atlanta is a city of progressive ideas;
a city of money, brains and culture; a
■city of energy, liberality and thrift.
It has been built since 1865, from
blackened walls and lone standing
chimneys, with many a Rachel mourn
ing tor her children, and many a man
with all of his capital in his head and
hands; it has grown to be a thriving
place of nearly 60,000 inhabitants, with
costly public and private buildings of
modern architectural design. Its streets
are well lighted with gas and electric-
A. humorous dare-devil—the very man to su.it my purpose. Bulwer.
THE ATLANTA IST TJ JiZL BE R.
ity; the principal ones are paved with
granite blocks, the sewerage system is
good, as the mortality reprrt will show,
and being constantly bettered. The
water supply is adequate and being
increased by the boring of artesian
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wells, one of which now yields 200,000
gallons a day.
Atlanta is supplied with all of the
public buildings usually found in a
city of its size. The Kimball House
stands at the front of Southern hotels
and the peer of those anywhere. The
building and furnishings cost over
8700,000. The Markham House stands
near it as a popular first-class hotel,
Among others of less prominence is
the home-like National Hotel, which
has a patronage among the solid men
of the country. There are others of
lesser proportions, of eminent respect
ability. Among them may be men
tioned the Metropolitan, Grant House,
Hotel Weinmeister, Adams, Arling
ton, Talmage and others. Through
out the city are many comfortable fam
ily boarding houses. Among the best
known are the Leyden and Mrs. C. D.
Smith’s.
DeGive’s Opera House is frequently
used by gatherings of representative
bodies from all sections of the country,
the ample hotel accommodations mak
ing Atlanta a favorite place for such.
Right here may be mentioned a rea
son for those seeking to escape the rig
orsof a northern winter, or the extreme
heat of a lower latitude, visiting a
city-or its suburbs, all other things be
ing equal, instead of a crowded and
fashionable health resort of small pop
ulation, e. g. one can always suit his
accommodations to his purse.
The millionaire may have rooms en
suite, the person of limited means can
procure good substantial board at from
$5 to 810 per week. In the city, one
may isolate himself from persons who
are diseased, the association with whom
is depressing, ami, if the theory of the
contagiousness of consumption is well
founded, he would not be so likely to
have a ground already sown with the
seeds of disease from being still further
inoculated as he would at a crowded
health resort.
Among the numerous suburban re
sorts near Atlanta no place ranks high
er for salubrity than the pleasant
town of Marietta, twenty miles up the
Western A Atlantic R. R. This place
is at the foot of Kennesaw Mountain,
where Sherman and Johnston brought
their hosts together in a series of the
most sanguinary battles of the age.
Time has not effaced the marks of those
dark days; it has only softened them.
Marietta is at an elevation of over
1,100 feet above tide-water. Its sum
mers are pleasant and its winters in
vigorating —yet, still warm enough for
out-door sports, recreation and exer
cise.
The town is amply supplied with
pleasant hotels and boarding houses.
The Whitlock House, owned and
conducted by Mr. M. G. Whitlock,
is one of the best family hotels in the
South. The Kennesaw House, Glen-
NO. 12.
