Because back in the day, all the region s major railways converged in the city.In 1837 the town of Terminus sprang up at the end point of a railroad line. Though the name was changed from Terminus to Marthasville to Atlanta, by 1847 Atlanta was incorporated and was quickly becoming an important regional transportation hub. When the Civil War erupted, Atlanta was a town of less than ten thousand inhabitants, but it had already billed itself as the ��Gate City of the South.�� The moniker was a bit of self-promotion but was grounded in truth: the region��s major railways converged in the city.
After the Civil War Atlanta was called the gate city because it was the gate to the new south
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