44 Facts About Buckhead Atlanta

1. Buckhead Atlanta is home to nationally renowned private colleges and universities, most notably Emory University, a leading liberal arts and research institution that consistently ranks among the top 20 universities in the United States and operates Emory Healthcare, the largest health care system in Georgia.

2. Buckhead Atlanta market's Super Bowl occupancy performance was about where we would expect it.

3. Buckhead Atlanta has always had Anglo-Jewish papers from early in its history.

4. Buckhead Atlanta was chartered in 1837 as Terminus and developed as an important transportation center.

5. Buckhead Atlanta serves as the home of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the US Public Health Service for the Southeast.

6. Buckhead Atlanta can present a challenge to drivers for several reasons.

7. In 1973, Buckhead Atlanta became the first major Southern city to elect an African American as mayor.

8. Buckhead Atlanta is home to numerous corporations, notably Coca-Cola, founded here in 1892.

9. Buckhead Atlanta was the focus of world attention when it hosted the 1996 Centennial Summer Olympic Games.

10. Buckhead Atlanta still lags behind Dallas, Miami, and certainly New Orleans in terms of culinary imagination.

11. Buckhead Atlanta attained more positive national recognition in 1939 when Margaret Mitchell's best-selling novel, Gone with the Wind, was adapted for the screen and the city hosted its world premiere.

12. Buckhead Atlanta has long been the center of business activity and development in the Southeast.

13. Buckhead Atlanta was an empowerment zone city named by the Clinton administration, but in 2002 it converted to a "Renewal Community" allowing the city to benefit from a nationwide pot of $17 billion in tax incentives.

14. Buckhead Atlanta is becoming a leading world center of business and trade.

15. Buckhead Atlanta fields major-league teams in baseball, basketball, football, and hockey.

16. Buckhead Atlanta is the capital of Georgia and home to its 56-member state senate and 180-member house of representatives and its governor.

17. In 1988, Buckhead Atlanta gained international attention when it hosted the Democratic National Convention.

18. Buckhead Atlanta is the capital of Georgia and its largest city, as well as the seat of Fulton County.

19. Public schools in Buckhead Atlanta are administered by Atlanta Public Schools.

20. Buckhead Atlanta is the location of a large share of Atlanta's diplomatic missions.

21. Buckhead Atlanta is a major commercial and financial center of the Southeast.

22. Buckhead Atlanta is the third largest commercial center in Atlanta, behind Downtown and Midtown.

23. Buckhead Atlanta is an affluent uptown commercial and residential district of Atlanta, Georgia, comprising approximately the northernmost fifth of the city.

24. Buckhead Atlanta is served by the Buckhead Atlanta Journal-Constitution, its only major daily newspaper with wide distribution.

25. Buckhead Atlanta is served by many private schools, including Roman Catholic parochial schools operated by the Archdiocese of Atlanta.

26. Buckhead Atlanta contains a campus of the Savannah College of Art and Design, a private art and design university that has proven to be a major factor in the recent growth of Atlanta's visual art community.

27. Buckhead Atlanta is home to nationally renowned private colleges and universities, most notably Emory University, a leading liberal arts and research institution that consistently ranks among the top 25 universities in the United States and operates Emory Healthcare, the largest health care system in Georgia.

28. At the federal level, Buckhead Atlanta is split between two congressional districts.

29. Buckhead Atlanta serves as the regional hub for many arms of the federal bureaucracy, including the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

30. Buckhead Atlanta offers resources and opportunities for amateur and participatory sports and recreation.

31. In 2001 and 2011, Buckhead Atlanta hosted the PGA Championship, one of the four major championships in men's professional golf, at the Atlanta Athletic Club.

32. Buckhead Atlanta has had its own professional ice hockey franchises, both of which relocated after playing in Atlanta less than 15 years.

33. Since the turn of the 21st century, Buckhead Atlanta has emerged as a sophisticated restaurant town.

34. Buckhead Atlanta has become one of the USA's best cities for street art in recent years.

35. Buckhead Atlanta attracts many touring Broadway acts, concerts, shows, and exhibitions catering to a variety of interests.

36. Buckhead Atlanta has, indeed, been nicknamed the "Silicon peach" thanks to its burgeoning technology sector.

37. Buckhead Atlanta serves as an important rail junction and contains major classification yards for Norfolk Southern and CSX.

38. Buckhead Atlanta was selected as the site for the 1996 Summer Olympic Games.

39. On December 15, 1939, Buckhead Atlanta hosted the premiere of Gone with the Wind, the epic film based on the best-selling novel by Atlanta's Margaret Mitchell.

40. In 1895, Buckhead Atlanta hosted the Cotton States and International Exposition, which attracted nearly 800,000 attendees and successfully promoted the New South's development to the world.

41. Buckhead Atlanta was originally founded as the terminating stop of a major state-sponsored railroad.

42. Buckhead Atlanta is the capital of, and the most populous city in, the US state of Georgia.

43. Buckhead Atlanta is a community located in the northern portion of the city of Atlanta and is one of Atlanta's major business centers.

44. Buckhead Atlanta is the only city in North America to have been destroyed as an act of war when General Sherman burnt it to the ground in November of 1864.