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INTRODUCTION
This booklet is issued by the Athens Chamber of Com merce of Athens, Clarke County, Georgia. Most people in looking the same over will ask:
Why was the book issued?
It is issued because Athens does not believe it a wise thing to hide from the world the many attractive and good things she has to offer to the world, and through the agency of this little publication the story is to be told.
People, the world over, know that the last government census shows that there is no part of the country which has kept pace in development with the South in the past ten years. Immigration, which for many years went to the West, is turning to the South, and for many reasons the South is certainly the "Land of Promise."
In the following pages, the facts regarding Athens are told, and none of the pictures have been painted too bright. Really, in most cases, a too conservative statement has been made, and the reality is a great deal more attractive than it is possible to show on a printed page.
Athens has for many, many years enjoyed a most en viable reputation as an educational, residential and com mercial city, and in the last four years her growth has been marvelous. The steady prosperous growth is still going on, and now is the time for the prospective settler to come in and help us reap the rich harvest which is cer tain to follow.
Should information be desired on specific subjects, a letter addressed to <3r^6rJIGlWway, Secretary, Athens Chamber of Commerce, Athens, Ga., will have personal and prompt attention. It will always be a pleasure to serve inquiries in a careful fashion, and you have only to command.
THE ATHENS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE,
Athens, Georgia.

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SOME MAIN FACTS

Athens is the county seat and metropolis of Clarke County, situated in the northern part of Georgia, in a healthful, fertile, well watered and well drained section. It has the distributing point of Northeast Georgia and its nearest competitor is Atlanta, 73 miles to the west. It enjoys unusually fine railroad facilities; five roads enter ing the town.
Its principal support is the production, marketing and manufacturing of cotton, although its various other in dustries and its large educational interests contribute largely to its prosperity.
One of the best indications of its healthy and rapid growth is the steady increase of its postal receipts.
It is well paved and sewered and its ample supply of pure water is attested by the very low death rate.
Clarke County is noted far and wide for its excellent sand-clay roads.
It has seven banks, all in a healthy condition. The assessed value of its property is $10,050,000.00. It is the second largest inland cotton market in the State and the eighth largest in the United States. It handled 184,038 bales of cotton the year ending August 81, 1912, having a value of approximately $10,000,000.00. It does a wholesale business of approximately $5,000,000.00 yearly. Its public school system is second to none. Because of its educational institutions, it is rightly called the Classic City of the South.

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HISTORICAL

-XEhens was founded in 1801 and owes its origin to a

grant of 600 acres of land to the State by John Milledge

for the purpose of establishing a "seat of learning." The

University of Georgia, chartered in 1785, graduated its first class here in 1803 and its two buildings were the beginning of a beautiful town which now numbers its handsome residences and public buildings by the hun dreds. For nearly three quarters of a century Athens was content with being the home of the State University but in the course of time other institutions of learning grouped themselves around the University and the wheels of industry began to turn, waking the old town from its peaceful sleep.
SITUATION
Athens is situated on the east fork of the Oconee river, 800 feet above sea level, and is in sight of the Blue Ridge mountains. It is 73 miles east of Atlanta, 105 miles north of Macon, 287 miles northwest of Savannah, (which is. its outlet to the Atlantic), and 110 miles northwest of Augusta. The surrounding country is rolling and the city itself is built on several ridges, which are about 75 feet above, the river. The drainage is perfect, but there are few steep hills, the maximum grade on any principal street being not over .7^ per cent. The city is in the heart of a rich agricultural section adapted to the raising of cotton, grains and hay and ideal for truck farming. Here the luscious seuppernong grape, world-famous for its flavor, grows in riotous profusion. The soils are chiefly red and grey loams with clay sub-soils, rich in plant food. They respond strongly to deep plowing, leguminous crops and commercial fertilizers. Three tons of hay per acre, 100 bushels of oats, 50 bushels of corn or 1% bales of cotton may be easily raised by proper cul tivation and fertilizing.
RAILROADS
Five railroads enter the city, insuring low rates and ample facilities for handling its produce and its manu factured products. These are the Seaboard Air Line, the Southern Railway, the Central of Georgia Railway, (now owned by the Illinois Central), the Georgia Railroad,

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(operated under lease by the Atlantic Coast Line and the Louisville and Nashville Railroads), and the Gainesville Midland. All of these have ample freight depots and at tractive passenger stations except the Gainesville Mid land, which uses the Seaboard Air Line Railway station. The Georgia Railroad, which was chartered in 1833, com pleted its line to Athens in 1840. This road was after wards built to Atlanta, the first railroad entering that city. Several other roads are projected and surveys have been made.

CORPORATE LOUTS

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a circle three miles in diameter. A considerable portion.

of the population, however, lives outside of this circle.

TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE
The town is served by the Western Union and the Postal Telegraph Companies, both of which maintain offices and operate excellent call-bell systems. The South ern Bell Telephone Company operates the only telephone srvice.
FIRE DEPARTMENT
The city has a fine firefighting organization. There are two stations, one of which has just been completed. The equipment consists of two hose wagons, one hookand-ladder truck and combination chemical wagon, and one auto-truck. This equipment is handled by a well drilled, paid force, consisting of a chief and eighteen men. Gravity pressure is used, this ranging from 40 to 60 pounds, which is available at the highest point in the city, making engines unnecessary. With this pressure the pumping capacity of 3,000,000 gallons per day affords ample fire protection. The city is covered by 37 boxes of the Gamewell fire alarm system.
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LIGHT AND POWER
Electric service for light, heat and power is supplied by the Athens Railway and Electric Company, which operates three hydro-electric stations and a large aux iliary steam generating station. The service is excellent and the rates are unusually low. Any amount of horse power is available for manufacturing purposes and man ufacturers in Athens enjoy rates even lower than those communities served from the great Niagara Falls.
Clayton Street, Looking West
STREET RAILWAY
Ten miles of well kept track cover all the principal streets of the city. No city in the South has better service. The schedules are adequate to the needs of the people and the cars are large, clean and comfortable and are equipped with air-brakes and electric heaters.
GAS SUPPLY
The gas supply is ample and of good quality and the city is well covered with mains. The plant has. a daily capacity of 150,000 cubic feet.

Post Office Building
The postoffiee occupies the first floor of the handsome Federal Building. Its receipts indicate by their steady and rapid increase the remarkable growth of the city. The receipts for the past ten years were as follows:
1902 ___ __________________$22,703 1903 ___________________ 25,213 1904 _.__________..______ 28,610 1905 _____________________ 29,778 1906 _____________________ 37,995 1907 _____________________ 39,499 1908 _____________________ 43,523 1909 _____________________ 45,914 1910 _____________________ 51,882 1911 _____________________ 50,940 1912 _____________________ 54,914
HOSPITALS
There are four private hospitals and a movement is on foot to erect a large modern hospital.

The Georgian Hotel

WATER SUPPLY
The city obtains its water from the Oconee river. The pumping station is situated just inside the city limits above the city. From Athens to the head waters of the Oconee there is not a town situated so as to pollute the stream. The pumping is done by electric power and the plant has a capacity of 3,000,000 gallons daily. The water is first pumped into a settling basin, where it goes through the bi-cloride of lime water purification process, from which it flows by. gravity to the filters. The Warren system of filters is used. From the filters it flows, clear and pure, to the intake of the electric pumps which force it into the great standpipe, 150 feet high. Eighteen miles of mains carry it to all parts of the city. Each day samples of water are tested by the City Bacteriologist, so that its purity may at all times be unquestioned.

SEWERS
The topography of the city gives excellent natural drainage and to this is added a system of sewers 23 miles in length. The sewers empty into the Oconee river below the city and a large dam separates this point from the waterworks, thus precluding all possibility of the water supply becoming contaminated.

CHURCHES

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The people of Athens are consistent church-goers and ' the city is well supplied with churches. There are for

white people 3 Methodist, 3 Baptist, 2 Presbyterian, 1

Episcopalian, 1 Christian, 1 Catholic, 1 Synagogue, 1 Tabernacle (Baptist). Besides these, there are numerous

churches for colored people.

ICE SUPPLY
-^^Af 60-ton and 35-ton ice plant supplies the present de mand of the city, and a considerable quantity of ice is shipped to adjoining towns. These two plants have storage capacity of 7,000 .tons.

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BANKS
Seven banks furnish ample financial facilities for the commercial interests of the town. One of these, the Na tional Bank of Athens, ranks first in the State and six teenth in the United States on the roll of honor of Na tional Banks. It pays an annual dividend of 30 per cent. These seven banks have combined capital, surplus and un divided profits of $1,588,208 and total deposits of $2,042,905. Athens is also the home of the Southern Mutual Insurance Company, widely known as one of the strongest financial institutions in the South.
NEWSPAPERS
There are four live, up-to-date newspapers: The Banner, morning daily and weekly. The Herald, evening daily. The Home and Farmstead, semi-monthly. The Clarke County Review, weekly. Of these, The Banner was established in 1832.

TAXES
In spite of its many high-grade public improvements, Athens has an unusually low tax rate. The city rate is $12.00 per thousand, assessed on a valuation of 60 per cent. No specific tax is levied on any business that can be reached by ad valorem taxation. The assessed valua tion for 1913 was $10,050,000, which was an increase of more than $300,000 over the valuation of the previous year. Not only is the city tax rate one of the lowest in the South, but the county rate is also very low, it being approximately $5.00 per thousand. This is probably lower than any county in the State doing an equal amount of road improvement. The State tax is approximately $5.00 per thousand.
FRATERNAL ORDERS
There are many fraternal orders in Athens, among them being the following: Masons, Elks, Knights of Pythias, Odd Fellows, Woodmen of the World.
Elks Home

POPULATION
The census of 1890 showed a population of 8,639; 1900, 10,245; 1910, 14,913. These included only the pop ulation within the city limits. A large part of the city, however, is outside of the city limits and a conservative estimate of the present total population would be 20,500. The proportion of colored to white is variously estimated at from 30 per cent to 40 per cent. During nine months in the year, while the colleges are in session, the population is increased by some 2,000 in addition to the above figures.
Shackelford Building
SPORTS
The Cloverhurst Country Club maintains excellent golf links and tennis courts, and has just finished a handsome clubhouse. There is a fine race-track, where horse races are held every fall. Small game, such as partridges, rab bits, doves, snipe, etc., is found in abundance in the coun try surrounding the city. The Athletic Field of the Uni versity of Georgia is the finest in the South and for the past four years one of the major league teams has held spring practice here.

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PAVING
During the past ten years Athens has spent over $300,000 on permanent street improvement. No city of its size in the South can boast of more paving or better streets. The business section is paved with vitrified brick and wood blocks, streets with grades with Belgian block and the residence streets with Doloway and ma cadam. Granolithic sidewalks are on all the principal streets. The area of paving is made up as follows:
Belgian block, 665,350 square yards. Vitrified brick, 27,222 square yards. Macadam, 100,183 square yards. Wood block, 1,477 square yards. Doloway, 49,000 square yards. Curbing, 87,000 lineal feet. A bond election to authorize the issue of $75,000 in bonds for street improvements has been carried, and the paving work is now in progress.
STREET LIGHTING
The streets are well lighted with 235 6.6 ampere series enclosed arc lamps. The Athens Railway and Electric Company supplies this service at $50.00 per year for each lamp. There are few cities in the United States that obtain street lighting at such a low rate.
Y. M. C. A. AND Y. W. C. A. '
The present Y. M. C. A. building is a handsome struc ture of three stories, which was erected in 1889. Although this building is one of which many large cities would be proud, the phenomenal growth of this institution has made it inadequate. In 1912 a whirlwind campaign re sulted in popular subscriptions amounting to over $100,000. A magnificent new building with athletic grounds occupying an entire city block will soon be at the disposal of the association. -~J?wr cities as small as Athens support an up-to-date Y. W. C. A., but there has just been erected here a home for this association that is modern and ample, costing over $25,000.

PUBLIC BUILDINGS

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The City Hall is a handsome .structure erected in 1903 at a cost of $50,000. The first story is of Georgia granite

and the others are of white brick.

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NEW BUILDINGS
Building permits issued by the City Engineer amounted to $244,000 in 1912, and for January and February, 1913, permits amounting to $40,000 have already been issued. These figures include the new Holman office building, nine stories high, and the Y. W. C. A. building, but do not include the new $200,000 County court-house, the new $100,000 Y. M. C. A. building and the $100,000 Eduoafional Building on the campus of the University of Georgia, which are in the process of erection. Permits already issued for 1913 and those to follow will reach the imposing total of nearly $600,000.

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CITY SCHOOLS
The system of public schools is in all respects the equal of any in the South. The present system was put into effect in 1886. At that tune, there were six schools with twenty teachers and 1,085 pupils; there are now ten schools with seventy teachers and more than 2,800 pupils. The system has a central library of over 6,000 volumes, from which the various primary schools may draw. The list of schools is composed of one High School, five day schools for white pupils, two night schools for white pu pils, two kindergartens for white pupils and three schools for colored pupils. In addition to these there are several private schools for white pupils and no less than five private schools for colored pupils. The most important of the colored schools is Knox Institute, which offers to colored youths a through course in manual arts.
An election authorizing the issue of $100,000.00 in bonds for extensions to the public school system has been carried and the work of improving an already excellent school system is going on.
COLLEGES
The claim of Athens as an educational center will be appreciated when it is stated that in addition to the pub lic and private schools there are the following colleges: University of Georgia, Georgia College of Agriculture, State Normal School and Lucy Cobb Institute. A brief description of these will not be out of place.
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
Georgia was the first state to make any provision for a State college. As early as 1785, an act was passed looking to the establishment of a university, but lack of funds delayed the actual establishment of it until 1801. All of the state educational institutions form a part of the university system and are under the jurisdiction of its Board of Trustees. Branches of the University are located in Atlanta, Augusta, Milledgeville, Dahlonega and other points in the State. During its history" of more than

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a century the University has enrolled more than 8,000 students and has conferred nearly 4,000 degrees. The history of its students is largely the history of the State. At the present time, the institution is giving instruction to nearly 1,000 students annually in Athens. A teachers' college is conducted each summer.
STATE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE
Four years ago, the College of Agriculture was reor ganized. A modern building 72 feet by 264 feet and three stories high was erected here at a cost of $100,000.00. In addition to this, the college has $65.000.00 worth of equip ment, consisting of laboratory apparatus for training in soils, agricultural chemistry, cotton industry, horticul ture, forestry, agronomy, dairying, veterinary science, animal husbandry and farm mechanics. There are also a large dairy barn, a general farm barn, a horticultural barn and orchard, experimental barn, a veterinary hos pital and a poultry barn. A tremendous influence is being exterted on the agricultural interests and rural life of the State.
STATE NORMAL SCHOOL
The Normal School was founded in 1891 by an act of the legislature. It is located on an extenison of Prince Avenue, just outside of the city limits. It then had one building; it now has eight school buildings, 45 teachers and a total enrollment of nearly 850. Since the founding of the school, over 9,500 students have registered. The school has a handsome library building, costing $25,000, which was donated by Mr. Carnegie. At present the equipment of the school is inadequate to care for all the students who apply for admission and large numbers are turned away each year for lack of room.
LUCY COBB INSTITUTE
Lucy Cobb Institute was founded in 1858. The object of its founders was to provide a high grade private school for the young women of Athens. Its high curriculum and air of culture soon drew to it, however, young women

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from all over the State and it has been conducted for many years as a select boarding school, limited to about 60 boarding pupils and 75 day pupils. The departments of music, art and oratory are especially fine. Especial care is devoted to the health of the students. During its history of 54 years, there has never been a death among its students and only one or two cases of serious illness.
About $350,000 is expended annually by the State, county, city and private institutions for maintaining the educational establishments in Athens and Clarke County.
CLIMATE
Situated in the foothills of the Blue Ridge, Athens is near enough to enjoy all of the advantages and none of the disadvantages of the mountains. It has an altitude of 800 feet above sea level. The thermometer rarely reg isters higher than 92 degrees or lower than 20 degrees above zero. These temperatures are extreme and of short duration. The mean temperature in summer is 74 and in winter 47 degrees. These figures show that Athens is well adapted for either a summer or winter resort. Even when the days are hottest, the nights are comparatively cool. There is always a breeze and refreshing sleep may

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State Normal School

be enjoyed. The weather during the greater part of the winter is almost like Indian Summer. United States weather records show an average annual rainfall of 52 inches. This is well distributed throughout the year; there is no "rainy season."
Situated as it is with excellent natural drainage, an adequate system of sewers and an abundance of pure water, an enviable health record is to be expected. The death rate of Athens is the lowest in the State and the second lowest among all of the cities in the United States making reports to the government. Evansville, Ind., is the only other city making report to the government which has a death rate lower than Athens and even there the white death rate is higher than the white death rate of Athens.
INDUSTRIES
The principal industry is, of course ,the production, marketing and manufacture of cotton, but other enter prises are many and varied. Fully 4,000 horsepower is
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An Athens Residence
used in the various industries, of which over 90 per cent is electric power, making practically a smokeless city. Among the enterprises there are: two lumber plants, five cotton mills, two fertilizer plants, two cotton oil mills, one knitting mill, two shirt factories, one plow fac tory, two machine shops and foundries, one wagon fac tory, two ice plants, one large green house, one pottery, three brickyards, one cotton compress, one overall fac tory, two mattress factories. There are many other smaller enterprises in successful operation. A large tan nery has just been incorporated and a $500,000 cotton mill is under construction. The total annual pay roll of Athens industries is over three quarters of a million dol lars and the value of its manufactured products is over four millions. The average weekly payroll for the city is $14,870.00. In addition to the above there are four wholesale grocery houses, two wholesale hardware houses, two wholesale dry goods houses and one wholesale shoe house, which do a total annual business of nearly five

million dollars. Also located here is the most modern laundry and dry cleaning plant in the South. Located here also is one of the most successful construction com panies in this part of the United States, they constructing large buildings in every section of the South.
For the season ending August 31,1912, Athens handled
184,038 bales of cotton, having an approximate value of $10,000,000. About 40,000 bales of this were brought in by wagons. Cotton is essentially a ready money crop and the effect of the enormous value of this volume of cotton on the prosperity of the city may be easily appreciated.
A large compress having the capacity of two bales per minute handles the bulk of this immense volume of cot ton.
Athens is the second- largest inland cotton market in the State and ranks eighth in the United States.
A fact usually overlooked by prospective investors in Athens enterprises is the enormous amount of money spent by the students of the various State and private educational institutions located here. A large percentage of this comes from outside of the city and its effect on the prosperity of the city is the same as that of the pay rolls of its industries.

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The Athens Pottery Company
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INCORPORATED 1912

The only Modern Pottery Plant in the South which makes a High Grade of Floral Ware, and has expert workmen to do the work

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DAILY and WEEKLY
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THE BEST IMPRESSION
"Printing that's Different'
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An order for little cards has the personal attention which is given to the illustrated book-work business that takes pages and pictures.
The "Banner Printery" is ready for any job that comes to it--ready to do 'it justice--to do it well, and to be in position to do it again.

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149 Lumpkin St.

ATHENS, GA.

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ATHENS, GA.

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