7A - Metropolitan Atlanta
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Atlanta is one of the largest cities in the Southeast, with a population over 500,000, but the total metropolitan area is home to more than 6 million people and is the ninth-largest metropolitan area in the nation. Its airport is considered to be the world’s busiest. In many ways, this city has become the cultural and economic hub of the New South. Founded initially as a railroad town, it was burned to the ground during the Civil War, but rebounded quickly to become a center for commerce and became a focal point for the Civil Rights movement during the 1950’s and 1960’s. Two major topographic features in the metropolitan area deserve special note. Stone Mountain is considered the largest mass of exposed granite rock in the world and is an excellent example of a geologic exfoliation dome. Carved into its massive north face are the likenesses of three heroes of the Confederacy that reach nearly nine stories tall. Soapstone Ridge is an unusual geological formation that is also an important archeological site that was used by Native Americans to carve and shape large stone bowls.Themes
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