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Atlanta is an unincorporated community in the western United States, located in Elmore County, Idaho.. Historical Home in Atlanta. It was founded in 1864 during the Civil War as a gold and silver mining community and named by Southerners after a rumored Confederate victory over General Sherman in the Battle of Atlanta, which turned to be wholly false, but the name stuck.
Atlanta Motor Speedway (formerly known as the Atlanta International Raceway from 1960 to 1990) is a 1.540 miles (2.478 km) quad-oval intermediate speedway in Hampton, Georgia. The track has hosted a variety of sanctioning bodies since its inaugural season of racing in 1960, including NASCAR and IndyCar .
The airport is located 2 NM (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) northeast [1] of Nuuk Centrum.The former suburbs of Nuuk, such as Nuussuaq, Quassussuup Tungaa, and Qinngorput, incorporated into the town in the last decade, have brought the city closer to the airport.
Federal Penitentiary Atlanta 1920 postcard. The United States Penitentiary, Atlanta (USP Atlanta) is a low-security United States federal prison for male inmates in Atlanta, Georgia. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice. The facility also has a detention center for pretrial and ...
A blizzard (see: 1993 Storm of the Century) caught much of the Southeast off-guard in 1993, dumping 4.5 inches (11.4 cm) at the Atlanta airport on March 13, and much more than that in the suburbs to the north and west, as well as in the mountains. Dallas, a suburb about 30 miles or 48 kilometres to the west-northwest, received 17.5 inches (44.5 ...
Fulton County Airport covers an area of 985 acres (399 ha) at an elevation of 841 feet (256 m) above mean sea level.It has two asphalt paved runways: 8/26 is 5,797 by 100 feet; and 14/32 is 4,158 by 100 feet (1,267 x 30 m). [1]
The Atlanta campaign was a series of battles fought in the Western Theater of the American Civil War throughout northwest Georgia and the area around Atlanta during the summer of 1864.
The Masquerade is a mid-sized concert venue located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.It is located in Kenny's Alley, the lowest level of Underground Atlanta.The venue first opened in 1989 at the historic DuPre Excelsior Mill, a century-old former manufacturing plant.