Short answers, pulled from the story.
Residents approved the name change and incorporated the city on the 29th of December 1847. The settlement first bore the name Terminus before becoming Thrasherville after a local merchant built homes and a general store.
Confederate General John Bell Hood ordered the destruction of public assets on the 1st of September 1864, before retreating from Atlanta. Union forces under General William Tecumseh Sherman laid siege to the city for four months and later ordered the burning of remaining military assets on the 11th of November 1864.
Maynard Jackson became Atlanta's first Black mayor in 1973 after African Americans exercised their newly enforced voting rights. Public schools desegregated in 1973, nearly twenty years after the Supreme Court ruling.
The 2020 United States census reported that Atlanta had a population of 498,715 people. Between 2000 and 2010, the city gained 22,763 white residents while losing 31,678 Black residents.
Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport handled an estimated 93.7 million passengers in 2022 and has been the world's busiest by passenger traffic since 1998 except for 2020. Delta Air Lines operates the largest airline hub at this facility and serves as metro Atlanta's biggest employer.