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re: Athens - The Classic City in Photos
Posted on 7/26/15 at 9:53 am to dallasga6
Posted on 7/26/15 at 9:53 am to dallasga6
i paint a picture, i let others work out the details.
they could have located it near downtown Savannah though. ATL didn't want to help Savvanah though.
pretty sure there was a road b/t atlanta and Nooga, so campus location in n. ga mountains was possible.
plus they could have changed locations in the 1800's sometime. many universities changed locations, wake forest comes to mind.
athens is aight though where it is. make sense for it to be near atlanta, given most of students are from there.
they could have located it near downtown Savannah though. ATL didn't want to help Savvanah though.
pretty sure there was a road b/t atlanta and Nooga, so campus location in n. ga mountains was possible.
plus they could have changed locations in the 1800's sometime. many universities changed locations, wake forest comes to mind.
athens is aight though where it is. make sense for it to be near atlanta, given most of students are from there.
This post was edited on 7/26/15 at 10:01 am
Posted on 7/26/15 at 10:00 am to Jamie Lannister
You are a weird dude sir Jamie.
Posted on 7/26/15 at 10:09 am to Jamie Lannister
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hey could have located it near downtown Savannah though. ATL didn't want to help Savvanah though.
Once again, the University was chartered in 1785. Before any other public university in the country. Atlanta or "Terminus" wasn't even a thought until the late 1830s. The site of the University for a while was basically in the North GA wilderness. Hell, the Creek and Cheorkee Indians were still being removed from the northern parts of the state until 1825.
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pretty sure there was a road b/t atlanta and Nooga, so campus location in n. ga mountains was possible.
Besides all the reasons listed above, Chattanooga didn't exist until the Cherokee were driven out in the 1830's (there's a breathtaking memorial of the Trail of Tears and the removal by the Aquarium up there). So, no, wrong once again.
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plus they could have changed locations in the 1800's sometime. many universities changed locations, wake forest comes to mind.
There would be absolutely no reason for this. Not only was the city of Athens already established around the University and thriving by the mid-1800s, the Civil War meant 1.) no way was there money to spare on relocating a perfectly fine University location, and 2.) the Reconstruction era had Athens in prime location near the new capital of Atlanta.
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