Atlanta Georgia, USA, Drone Film From Above, A Travel Tour

Atlanta, city, the capital of Georgia, U.S., and seat of Fulton county (but also partly in DeKalb county). It lies in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the northwestern part of the state, just southeast of the Chattahoochee River. Atlanta is Georgia’s largest city and the principal trade and transportation center of the southeastern United States. It is the core of an extensive metropolitan area that includes 20 counties and cities such as Decatur, East Point, and Marietta. Pop. (2010) 420,003; Atlanta–Sandy Springs–Marietta Metro Area, 5,268,860; (2020) 498,715; Atlanta–Sandy Springs–Alpharetta Metro Area, 6,089,815.

Atlanta owes its existence to the railroads, the routes of which were determined by geography. Lying as it does at the southern extremity of the Appalachian Mountains, it became the gateway through which most overland traffic had to pass between the southern Atlantic Seaboard and regions to the west. In 1837 a spot near what is now Five Points, in the center of the present-day city, was selected for the southern terminus of a railroad that was subsequently built northward to Chattanooga, Tennessee. The location was known first as Terminus and then as Marthasville; in 1845 it was renamed Atlanta for the Western and Atlantic Railroad. Several other rail lines had converged on the city by 1860.

During the American Civil War (1861–65), Atlanta became a supply depot, a site of Southern war industries, and the keystone of Confederate rail transportation east of the Mississippi River. It was thus the prime military objective of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman’s invasion of Georgia from Chattanooga, known as the Atlanta Campaign. Sherman inflicted heavy casualties on Confederate forces during the Battle of Atlanta, on July 22, 1864, but the city did not fall to his Union troops until several months later, on September 1. It was then converted into a military camp. On November 15 Sherman departed Atlanta on his devastating March to the Sea, but not before much of the city had been burned.

Here are the top 10 tallest buildings in Atlanta, based on height:

Bank of America Plaza: 1,023 ft (312m)
SunTrust Plaza: 871 ft (265m)
One Atlantic Center: 820 ft (250m)
191 Peachtree Tower: 770 ft (235m)
Westin Peachtree Plaza: 723 ft (220m)
Georgia-Pacific Tower: 697 ft (212m)
Promenade II: 691 ft (210m)
AT&T Midtown Center: 677 ft (206m)
3344 Peachtree: 665 ft (203m)
1180 Peachtree: 657 ft (200m)

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