![The Underground sign in Atlanta, GA from the AJC](https://sites.gsu.edu/historyofourstreets/files/2024/04/image-a69ed67705672d35.jpg)
![Overview of the Underground in Atlanta, GA from the AJC](https://sites.gsu.edu/historyofourstreets/files/2024/04/image-91bd7a5102dd99c4.jpg)
Atlanta historically served as a connection for railroads and since then has economically boomed. In 1835, the state of Georgia was determined to build a railway to the Northwest, from the Tennessee line to the southwestern bank of the Chattahoochee River, and through Athens, Madison, Milledgeville, Forsyth, and Columbus.3 Eventually, Atlanta became the center for the South. With the consistent growth in population, Atlanta has rapidly developed and evolve from the Civil War to the 1996 Olympics, the existence of the Underground became a result of this.4 The shopping and entertainment district in the heart of downtown Atlanta, also known as “the city beneath the city”, holds rich history and culture. Today it stretches across 50 Upper Alabama St SW which was historically constructed along the zero-mile post sometime during the 1920s.
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