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Zero Mile Post Historical Marker
Zero Mile Post State Historical
Marker
Located on the interior wall of the
Georgia Building Authority's police headquarters on the first
floor of the parking garage immediately adjacent to the southern
entrance to Underground Atlanta. To visit the marker, you must
enter the main entrance of the parking garage from Central Ave.
and ride an elevator down to the first floor. Enter the GBA police
headquarters and you will find the marker mounted on a wall next
to the Zero
Mile Post monument.
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ZERO MILE POST
- This Zero Mile Post marks the
Southeastern Terminus of the
- Western and Atlantic Railroad,
about which a settlement grew and
- eventually became Atlanta. This
railroad, to Chattanooga, Tennessee,
- was built, and still is owned
by the State of Georgia. It was authorized by the State Legislature
December 21, 1836. The route was surveyed
by Colonel Stephen Harriman Long, Chief Engineer, May 12,
1837 to November 3, 1840. Construction began
March, 1838.
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- The original terminus was between
the present Forsyth and Magnolia
- Streets. It was moved here in
1842. The settlement which sprang up
was called Terminus. It was incorporated as the town of
Marthasville, December 23, 1843. The name
was changed to Atlanta, December 29,
1847. It was incorporated as the City of Atlanta, December 29, 1847, with corporate limits extending
one mile in every direction from the
State Depot which was between here and
what is now Pryor Street.
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- The railroad placed mile posts
beginning here in 1850. A new City
Charter approved February 28, 1874 redefined the corporate
limits as a circle one mile and a half in
every direction from this mile post.
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- 060-124 GEORGIA HISTORICAL
COMMISSION 1958
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