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词条 Athens, Georgia
释义

  1. History

     Timeline 

  2. Geography

     Climate 

  3. Demographics

  4. Government

  5. Economy

     Businesses  Tourism  Competitiveness 

  6. Arts and culture

     Points of interest  Music 

  7. Education

     Clarke County School District  Private schools  Colleges and universities 

  8. Media

     Newspapers  Radio and television 

  9. In popular culture

  10. Infrastructure

     Transportation  Highways  Airports  Alternative  Public transit  Bus  Rail  Utilities  Healthcare 

  11. Sister cities

  12. Notable people

  13. References

  14. Bibliography

  15. External links

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Athens, officially Athens–Clarke County, is a consolidated city–county and college town in the U.S. state of Georgia. Athens lies about {{convert|70|mi|0|abbr=on}} northeast of downtown Atlanta, a Global City and the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, being in the top ten of the largest metropolitan areas in the nation.[5] It is a component of the larger Atlanta–Athens–Clarke County–Sandy Springs Combined Statistical Area, a trading area.[6] The University of Georgia, the state's flagship public university and a R1 research institution, is in the city and contributed to its initial growth. In 1991, after a vote the preceding year, the original City of Athens abandoned its charter to form a unified government with Clarke County, referred to jointly as Athens–Clarke County.[7] {{as of|2017}}, the U.S. Census Bureau's estimated population of the consolidated city-county (all of Clarke County except Winterville and a portion of Bogart) was 125,691; the entire county including Winterville and Bogart had a population of 127,064.[8] Athens is the sixth-largest city in Georgia, and the principal city of the Athens metropolitan area,[9] which had a 2017 estimated population of 209,271, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.[10] The city is dominated by a pervasive student culture and music scene centered on downtown Athens, next to the University of Georgia's North Campus.[11] Major music acts associated with Athens include numerous alternative rock bands such as R.E.M., the B-52's, Widespread Panic, and Neutral Milk Hotel. The city is also known as a recording site for such groups as the Atlanta-based Indigo Girls.

History

In the late 18th century, a trading settlement on the banks of the Oconee River called Cedar Shoals stood where Athens is today. On January 27, 1785, the Georgia General Assembly granted a charter by Abraham Baldwin for the University of Georgia as the first state-supported university. Sixteen years later, in 1801, a committee from the university's board of trustees selected a site for the university on a hill above Cedar Shoals, in what was then Jackson County. On July 25, John Milledge, one of the trustees and later governor of Georgia, bought {{convert|633|acre|ha}} from Daniel Easley and donated it to the university. Milledge named the surrounding area Athens after the city that was home to the Platonic Academy of Plato and Aristotle in Greece.[12]

Athens officially became a town in December 1806 with a government made up of a three-member commission.[13] The university and town continued to grow with cotton mills fueling the industrial and commercial development. Athens became known as the "Manchester of the South" after the city in England known for its mills. In 1833 a group of Athens businessmen led by James Camak, tired of their wagons getting stuck in the mud, built one of Georgia's first railroads, the Georgia, connecting Athens to Augusta by 1841, and to Marthasville (now Atlanta) by 1845. In the 1830s and 1840s, transportation developments and the growing influence of the University of Georgia made Athens one of the state's most important cities as the antebellum era neared the height of its development. The university essentially created a chain reaction of growth in the community which developed on its doorstep.[14]

During the American Civil War,[15] Athens became a significant supply center when the New Orleans armory was relocated there to what is now called the Chicopee building. Fortifications can still be found along parts of the North Oconee River between College and Oconee St. In addition, Athens played a small part in the ill-fated Stoneman's Raid when a skirmish was fought on a site overlooking the Middle Oconee River near what is now the old Macon Highway.[16] As in many southern towns, there is a Confederate memorial. It is on Broad Street, near the University of Georgia Arch.

During Reconstruction, Athens continued to grow. The form of government changed to a mayor-council government with a new city charter on August 24, 1872, and Captain Henry was elected as the first mayor of Athens.[17] Henry Beusse was instrumental in the city's rapid growth after the Civil War. After serving as mayor, he worked in the railroad industry and helped bring railroads to the region, creating growth in many of the surrounding communities. Freed slaves moved to the city, where many were attracted by the new centers for education such as the Freedmen's Bureau. This new population was served by three black newspapers: the Athens Blade, the Athens Clipper, and the Progressive Era.[18]

In the 1880s, as Athens became more densely populated, city services and improvements were undertaken. The Athens Police Department was founded in 1881 and public schools opened in fall of 1886. Telephone service was introduced in 1882 by the Bell Telephone Company. Transportation improvements were also introduced with a street paving program beginning in 1885 and streetcars, pulled by mules, in 1888.

By its centennial in 1901, Athens was a much-changed city. A new city hall was completed in 1904. An African-American middle class and professional class grew around the corner of Washington and Hull Streets, known as the "Hot Corner", where the Morton Building was constructed in 1910.[19] The theater at the Morton Building hosted movies and performances by black musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, and Duke Ellington. In 1907 aviation pioneer Ben T. Epps became Georgia's first pilot on a hill outside town that would become the Athens-Ben Epps Airport. Athens got its first tall building in 1908 with the seven-story Southern Mutual Insurance Company building.{{citation needed|date=December 2010}}

During World War II, the U.S. Navy built new buildings and paved runways to serve as a training facility for naval pilots. In 1954, the U.S. Navy chose Athens as the site for the Navy Supply Corps school. The school was in Normal Town in the buildings of the old Normal School. It closed in 2011 under the Base Realignment and Closure process. The {{convert|56|acre}} site is now home to the University of Georgia/Medical College of Georgia Medical Partnership, the University of Georgia College of Public Health, and other health-related programs

In 1961, Athens witnessed part of the civil rights movement when Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes became the first two black students to enter the University of Georgia.[20] Despite the Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling in 1954, the Athens–Clarke County school district remained segregated until 1964.

Timeline

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|title = Timeline of Athens, Georgia
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  • 1801
    • Franklin College opens.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
    • Clarke County formed (from part of Jackson County).[21]
  • 1806 - Town of Athens incorporated.{{sfn|Hellmann|2006}}
  • 1808 - Georgia Express newspaper begins publication.[22]
  • 1810
    • Jackson Street Cemetery in use (approximate date).
    • Population: 273.
  • 1832 - Southern Banner newspaper in publication.[22]
  • 1834 - Camak House and T. R. R. Cobb House built (approximate date).
  • 1841 - Railroad begins operating.[23]
  • 1842 - Joseph Henry Lumpkin House built.[25]
  • 1850 - Population: 1,661.
  • 1856
    • Oconee Hill Cemetery established.[23]
    • Benjamin H. Hill House built.
  • 1859 - Lumpkin Law School and Lucy Cobb Institute (girls school) established.{{sfn|Federal Writers' Project|1940}}{{sfn|Hynds|1974}}
  • 1870 - Population: 4,251.
  • 1871 - Athens becomes seat of Clarke County.[23]
  • 1872
    • City of Athens incorporated.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
    • State School of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts opens.{{sfn|Federal Writers' Project|1940}}
  • 1882 - Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery established.[24]
  • 1883 - Synagogue built.[25]
  • 1891
    • Electric streetcar begins operating.[23]
    • Ladies Garden Club organized.[24]
  • 1895 - State Normal School opens.{{sfn|Hellmann|2006}}
  • 1896 - Electric lighting introduced.[23]
  • 1900 - Population: 10,245.
  • 1903 - University of Georgia College of Pharmacy founded.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1904 - City Hall built.[23]
  • 1906 - School of Forestry founded.{{sfn|Britannica|1910}}
  • 1908 - Southern Mutual Insurance Company building constructed.[23]
  • 1910 - Morton Theatre in business.[35]
  • 1912 - School of Commerce founded.
  • 1914
    • Reese Street School founded.[24]
    • Clarke County Courthouse built.[23]
  • 1917 - Athens Ben Epps Airport opens.
  • 1924 - Athens Country Club founded.[26]
  • 1928 - WTFI radio begins broadcasting.[23]
  • 1929 - University's Sanford Stadium opens.[23]
  • 1932 - University of Georgia begins administering previously separate colleges of agriculture, education, law, etc.{{sfn|Thomas|2009}}
  • 1938
    • WGAU radio begins broadcasting.[27]
    • University of Georgia Press established.
  • 1940 - Population: 20,650.
  • 1948 - Georgia Museum of Art opens.[23]
  • 1949 - State Farmers Market established near Athens.{{sfn|Federal Writers' Project|1940}}
  • 1954 - Prince Avenue Drive-In cinema in business.[28]
  • 1958 - Athens Area Vocational-Technical School founded.
  • 1959 - Athens Historical Society organized.[29][30]
  • 1963 - Beechwood Shopping Center in business.[23]
  • 1965 - Daily News in publication.[22]
  • 1971 - Clarke Central High School opens.
  • 1976
    • Athens Transit bus begins operating.[23]
    • The B-52's musical group formed.
  • 1977 - Georgia Theatre in business.
  • 1979 - Pylon musical group begins performing.
  • 1980
    • Georgia Square Mall in business.[23]
    • R.E.M. musical group formed.[23]
  • 1987 - Athens-Clarke County Correctional Institution built.
  • 1990 - Population: 45,734.
  • 1991 - Governments of Athens and Clarke County consolidate.{{sfn|Hellmann|2006}}
  • 1992 - Athens-Clarke County Library's Heritage Room (for local history) established.[29]
  • 1996 - Part of 1996 Summer Olympics takes place in Athens.[23]
  • 2000
    • City-county website online (approximate date).[31]
    • Population: 100,266.
  • 2001
    • Athens Institute for Contemporary Art founded.
    • Athens Banner-Herald newspaper in publication.
  • 2007 - Paul Broun becomes U.S. representative for Georgia's 10th congressional district.[32]
  • 2010 - Population: 115,452.[33]
  • 2011 - Nancy Denson becomes mayor.
  • 2015 - Jody Hice becomes U.S. representative for Georgia's 10th congressional district.[34]
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Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the balance has a total area of {{convert|118.2|sqmi|1}}, of which {{convert|117.8|sqmi|1}} is land and {{convert|0.5|sqmi|1}} (0.41%) is water.

Athens lies within the humid subtropical climate zone, with hot, humid summers and mild to moderately cold winters. Annual rainfall averages {{convert|49.7|inch}}. Light to moderate snowfall can occur in winter. In the spring, frequent thunderstorms can sometimes become severe, even producing tornadoes. The city itself sits on a series of anomalous hills, unique to the Piedmont region.

Climate

Athens has a humid subtropical climate.[35] Its climatic regime is in many ways typical of Southeastern United States with long and hot summers transitioning into short and cool winters, but with precipitation being consistently high throughout the year. Normal monthly temperatures range from {{convert|43.5|°F|1}} in January to {{convert|80.6|°F|1}} in July; on average, maxima reach {{convert|90|°F|0}} or higher and stay below {{convert|40|°F|0}} on 58 and 5.8 days annually, and there are 48 days annually with a minimum at or below freezing.[58]

Official record temperatures range from {{convert|−4|°F|0}} on January 21, 1985 to {{convert|109|°F|0}} on June 29, 2012;[58] the record cold daily maximum is {{convert|18|°F|0}} on January 30, 1966, while, conversely, the record warm daily minimum is {{convert|79|°F|0}} as recently as August 11, 2007.[58] Temperatures rarely fall below {{convert|10|°F|0}}, having last occurred January 7, 2014.[58] The average window for freezing temperatures is November 5 to March 24, allowing a growing season of 225 days.[58]

Precipitation is relatively well spread (though the summer months are slightly wetter), and averages {{convert|46.3|in|mm|sigfig=3}} annually, but has historically ranged from {{convert|28.61|in|mm|abbr=on}} in 1954 to {{convert|71.39|in|mm|abbr=on}} in 1964.[58] Snowfall is sporadic, averaging {{convert|2.9|in|cm|1}} per winter, but has reached {{convert|13.6|in|cm|1}} in 2010–11.[58]

{{Weather box|location = Athens, Georgia (Ben Epps Airport), 1981–2010 normals,[36] extremes 1857–present
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|Mar high F = 66.2
|Apr high F = 74.0
|May high F = 81.8
|Jun high F = 88.7
|Jul high F = 91.4
|Aug high F = 89.9
|Sep high F = 84.0
|Oct high F = 74.4
|Nov high F = 65.2
|Dec high F = 55.7
|year high F= 73.7
|Jan low F = 33.1
|Feb low F = 36.3
|Mar low F = 42.5
|Apr low F = 49.3
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|Jun low F = 66.4
|Jul low F = 69.8
|Aug low F = 69.3
|Sep low F = 62.7
|Oct low F = 51.5
|Nov low F = 42.4
|Dec low F = 35.0
|year low F= 51.5
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|Jan precipitation inch = 4.05
|Feb precipitation inch = 4.48
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|Apr precipitation inch = 3.15
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|Jun precipitation inch = 4.18
|Jul precipitation inch = 4.47
|Aug precipitation inch = 3.53
|Sep precipitation inch = 3.94
|Oct precipitation inch = 3.55
|Nov precipitation inch = 3.82
|Dec precipitation inch = 3.73
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|Jul snow inch = 0
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|Jan snow inch = 1.4
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|Mar snow inch = 0.8
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|Apr precipitation days = 8.2
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|Jun precipitation days = 10.8
|Jul precipitation days = 10.5
|Aug precipitation days = 9.1
|Sep precipitation days = 7.7
|Oct precipitation days = 6.8
|Nov precipitation days = 8.6
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|Sep snow days = 0
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|Feb snow days = 0.4
|Mar snow days = 0.2
|Apr snow days = 0
|May snow days = 0
|Jun snow days = 0
|year snow days= 1.7
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Demographics

{{US Census population
|1810= 273
|1850= 1661
|1860= 3848
|1870= 4251
|1880= 6099
|1890= 8639
|1900= 10245
|1910= 14913
|1920= 16748
|1930= 18192
|1940= 20650
|1950= 28180
|1960= 31355
|1970= 44342
|1980= 42549
|1990= 45734
|2000= 100266
|2010= 115452
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|estimate=125691
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As of the census[4] of 2010, there were 100,266 people, 39,239 households, and 19,344 families residing in the city. The population density was 851.5 people per square mile (328.8/km²). There were 41,633 housing units at an average density of 353.6 per square mile (136.5/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 64.71% White, 27.37% Black or African American, 0.21% Native American, 3.15% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 3.11% from other races, and 1.41% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 6.39% of the population.

The large population increase from 1990 to 2000 reflects the altered boundaries that came with the consolidation of Athens and Clarke County, not just the influx of new residents.

There were 39,239 households out of which 22.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 32.3% were married couples living together, 13.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 50.7% were non-families. 29.9% of all households were made up of individuals and 5.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.35 and the average family size was 2.95.

In the city, the population was spread out with 17.8% under the age of 18, 31.6% from 18 to 24, 27.3% from 25 to 44, 15.3% from 45 to 64, and 8.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 25 years. For every 100 females, there were 95.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 93.4 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $28,118, and the median income for a family was $41,407. Males had a median income of $30,359 versus $23,039 for females. The per capita income for the balance was $17,103. About 15.0% of families and 28.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 25.2% of those under age 18 and 13.5% of those age 65 or over.

Government

{{Expand section|date=March 2009}}
  • Legislative: The government is headed by an elected mayor and 10 elected commissioners from 10 equally divided districts. Previously, they have been formed from 8 geographical districts and 2 super-districts covering districts 1–4 and 5–8
  • Executive: The Unified Government of Athens-Clarke County's day-to-day operations are overseen by a manager appointed by the Mayor and Commission. There are 26 main departments, divisions and offices under the managerial group
  • Judicial: Athens-Clarke County houses Magistrate, Juvenile, Municipal, Probate, State and Superior Courts. Superior Court covers the Western Judicial Circuit, which also includes Oconee County.[40]

Economy

Businesses

Athens is home to a growing number of young technology companies including Docebo, Roundsphere, and Cogent Education. The city is also home to more established technology companies such as Partner Software, Peachtree Medical Billing, and Digital Insight.

Athens is home to several pharmaceutical manufacturing and biotechnology companies such as Merial and Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. The University of Georgia also hosts its own biotechnology research centers mostly from the lower east side of town bordering Oconee county.

Independent publisher Hill Street Press is headquartered here. Authors with previous, or current, residence in the city include Pulitzer Prize winners Deborah Blum and Edward Larson, as well as Judith Ortiz Cofer, Reginald McKnight and Coleman Barks.

Tourism

Each spring, there are bicycle races collectively known as the Twilight Series. One is the Athens Twilight Criterium.

Competitiveness

In 2010 the average household rent in Athens was $962. The national average was $1087.[41] Of the Athens population 25 years of age or older, 39.3% have earned a bachelor's degree or higher.[42]

Arts and culture

The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia has been, since 1982, the official state art museum.

Culture coexists with the university students in creating an art scene, music scene and intellectual environment. The city has music venues, restaurants, bars, and coffee shops that cater to its creative climate.

Points of interest

  • One of the remaining two double-barreled cannons produced during the American Civil War is here.
  • The "Tree That Owns Itself," which is now an offspring of the original tree
  • The Georgia Museum of Art, the official state museum of art, at the University of Georgia
  • The State Botanical Garden of Georgia at the University of Georgia
  • The University of Georgia Campus & Arboretum
  • St. Mary's Steeple, home of the First R.E.M. show and site for newly founded renovation.[43]
  • The Globe bar was voted by Esquire magazine as the third top bar in America in 2007.[44]
  • Founded in 1955, Allen's is Athens' oldest bar and grill despite closing in 2004, re-opening in 2007, and closing again in November, 2011.[45]
  • Network Translations, Inc. developed here. It produced the PIX firewall which was later purchased by Cisco Systems.{{citation needed|date=June 2012}}
  • Sandy Creek Park.[46]

Music

{{Main|Music of Athens, Georgia}}

The music of Athens, Georgia, includes a wide variety of popular music and was an important part of the early evolution of alternative rock and new wave. The city is well known as the home of chart-topping bands like R.E.M. and The B-52s, and several long-time indie /rock hip-hop groups. The Athens music scene grew in the early 1970s and later during the 1980s with the Georgia Theatre and 40 Watt Club as the aforementioned bands scored breakout hits. Other notable bands were Widespread Panic, Dreams So Real, Indigo Girls, Vigilantes of Love, Matthew Sweet, The Method Actors, Love Tractor, Pylon, Flat Duo Jets, The Primates, Modern Skirts, The Whigs, and Corey Smith.

National acts that have come out of Athens include: The Whigs, Reptar, Danger Mouse, Dreams So Real, alternative duo Jucifer, Servotron, Vic Chesnutt, Drive-By Truckers, Elf Power, Neutral Milk Hotel, Lera Lynn, The Sunshine Fix, Colt Ford, Velocirapture, Brantley Gilbert, Corey Smith, Harvey Milk, The Olivia Tremor Control, of Montreal, Widespread Panic, Perpetual Groove, Five Eight, Dead Confederate, Thayer Sarrano, Jet by Day, Mothers, and Athens Boys Choir. R.E.M. members Michael Stipe, Mike Mills and Peter Buck still maintain residences in Athens. The photo book, Athens Potluck, by Jason Thrasher documents the musical legacy of the town.[47]

Every summer since 1996 the city has hosted AthFest, a nonprofit music and arts festival in the downtown area.[48]

Education

Clarke County School District

The Clarke County School District supports grades pre-school to grade twelve. The district consists of fourteen elementary schools, four middle schools, and three high schools (one non-traditional).[49] The district has 791 full-time teachers and 11,457 students {{as of|2010|lc=y}}.[50]

Private schools

  • Athens Christian School (grades K-12)
  • Athens Montessori School (grades K-8)
  • Downtown Academy (grades K-3)
  • Saint Joseph Catholic School (grades K-8)
  • Monsignor Donovan Catholic High School (grades 9–12)
  • Double Helix STEAM School (grades 5-8)
  • Al Huda Islamic Center of Athens Sunday School (5 years and older) [51]

Colleges and universities

  • The University of Georgia (UGA), the state's flagship public research university, is the oldest and 2nd largest institution of higher learning in Georgia. Founded in 1785, it was the first state-chartered university in the United States.[52]
  • Athens Technical College is a Technical College System of Georgia public college. It offers certificates, diplomas, and associate degrees in business, health, technical, and manufacturing-related fields.[53]
  • Augusta University (AU) through its Medical College of Georgia has a Medical Partnership [54] with the University of Georgia housed at the University of Georgia Health Science Campus,[55] and the AU College of Nursing has had a campus in Athens [56] since 1974.[57]
  • Piedmont College[58] established a campus in Athens in 1995.[59][60]

Media

{{see also|List of newspapers in Georgia (U.S. state)|List of radio stations in Georgia (U.S. state)|List of television stations in Georgia (U.S. state)}}

Newspapers

Athens Banner-Herald publishes daily. UGA has an independent weekly newspaper, The Red & Black. Flagpole Magazine is an alternative newspaper publishing weekly.

Radio and television

Local radio stations include:

  • WPLP-LP Bulldog 93.3 FM is Athens' locally owned and operated adult album alternative station
  • WPUP 100.1 FM, Athens top 40 station featuring all of today's hits. Owned by Cox Radio
  • WMSL 88.9 FM, a religious station featuring traditional Christian music and teaching
  • WUOG 90.5 FM, UGA's student-run radio station
  • WUGA 91.7 and 94.5 FM, an affiliate of Georgia Public Broadcasting and National Public Radio also broadcasting from the UGA campus
  • WPPP-LP 100.7 FM (Hot 100), a low-power, non-commercial alternative/progressive rock station
  • WRFC (AM) 960 AM, ESPN Radio (formerly Athens' local Top 40 music station during the 1960s and 1970s). Owned by Cox Radio.
  • WGAU 1340 AM, news and talk. Owned by Cox Radio.
  • WXAG 1470 AM, urban gospel music

In addition, WFSH-FM 104.7 FM, a contemporary Christian music station, is licensed to Athens but based in Atlanta. Atlanta-based Rhythmic Top 40 station WSBB-FM (95.5 The Beat) was formerly licensed to Athens (and also the former home of country station WNGC, which now broadcasts at 106.1) but has since changed its city of license to Doraville, Georgia.{{Citation needed|date=February 2010}}

Athens is part of the Atlanta television market. Two Atlanta-market television stations, WGTV (channel 8) and WUVG (channel 34), are licensed to Athens. However their transmitters are in the Atlanta metropolitan area. WGTV broadcasts from the top of Stone Mountain. From 2009 until 2015, UGA operated a television station, WUGA-TV (formerly WNEG-TV) from studios on the UGA campus, but maintained its transmitter near Toccoa, its city of license; what is now WGTA has since moved its studios back to Toccoa after being sold by UGA.

In popular culture

The 1940 film The Green Hand was shot in Athens, using local townspeople and students and faculty from the University of Georgia as its cast. The film had its premiere in Athens in January 1940, at an event attended by Governor Eurith D. Rivers.

The movie Darius Goes West was shot in Athens.[61]

The 1980–81 ABC-TV television series Breaking Away (based on the 1979 film of the same name) was filmed in and around Athens, and made use of the university buildings, and local stone quarries for filming locations.{{citation needed|date=July 2013}}

In 2000, the fictional Ithaca University scenes in Road Trip were filmed on the North Campus of the University of Georgia.[62]

In 2009, a town, namely 'Rayford', which was loosely based on Athens, appeared in the video game Left 4 Dead 2.{{citation needed|reason=seems dubious. Need RS if so loose that clear identity cannot be made|date=November 2013}}

In 2012, Trouble with the Curve was partially filmed at The Globe in downtown Athens.[63]

Also in 2012, The Spectacular Now was filmed entirely in Athens and the surrounding area.[64]

Infrastructure

Transportation

Highways

The city is the focus of U.S. Highways U.S. Route 29 (US 29), US 78, US 129, US 441, and Georgia State Route 72 (SR 72), and near the eastern terminus of SR 316 and the southern terminus of SR 106. Other state routes in Athens are SR 8 and SR 15, which follow US 29 and US 441 respectively, SR 10 which follows US 78 east and west of Athens but deviates to US 78 Bus. to go through Athens, and SR 15 Alt. which starts at the SR 10 Loop interchange at Milledge Avenue and follows Milledge and Prince Avenues to US 129 which it follows to the north. The SR 10 Loop serves as a limited-access perimeter. The city is bisected east to west by Broad Street/Atlanta Highway (US 78 Bus. and SR 10) and north to south by Milledge Avenue (SR 15 Alt.). Lumpkin Street, Prince Avenue (SR 15 Alt.), North Avenue, and Oconee Street (US 78 Bus.) along with Broad Street are major thoroughfares radiating from downtown. College Station Road and Gaines School Road are major thoroughfares on the east side of Athens, along with US 78 east (Lexington Road). On the west side, most major thoroughfares intersect US 78 Bus. (Broad Street/Atlanta Highway), including Alps Road/Hawthorne Avenue, Epps Bridge Parkway, and Timothy Road/Mitchell Bridge Road.

Airports

Athens-Ben Epps Airport (FAA code AHN) has been operational since 1917. It is east of downtown outside Georgia State Route 10 Loop and north of US Route 78. AHN qualifies for air service to be provided under the Essential Air Service provisions. SeaPort Airlines provides commercial air service to Nashville International Airport, TN. Until 2012, Georgia Skies and Wings Air provided commercial air service to Atlanta, and until 2008 (prior to either airline's current AHN service), US Airways provided service to Charlotte. Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport (ATL) is the primary point of departure and arrival for Athenians due to the relative lack of air service to AHN.[65]

Alternative

Athens encourages use of alternative transportation. Bike lanes are provided on major thoroughfares. A rail-to-trail redevelopment is being considered to connect Downtown with the East Side. Organizations such as BikeAthens support and encourage biking. Skateboarding and small scooters are also common sights around UGA campus and Downtown.

Public transit

Bus

Athens Transit provides intracity transit seven days per week.[66] UGA Campus Transit provides fare-free 24 hours/5 days a week transit around the University of Georgia campus, Milledge Avenue and Prince Avenue on the way to UGA's newest campus, the Health Sciences Campus.[67] Southeastern Stages, a subsidiary of Greyhound Lines,[68] provides intercity bus services.[69] Low cost curbside bus service to Atlanta and Charlotte is also provided by Megabus.

Rail

Athens has no direct passenger rail service; the closest Amtrak stations are in Atlanta, Gainesville, and Toccoa. Until the 1960s the Seaboard Air Line Railroad's daily Cotton Blossom, Washington - Atlanta, Silver Comet, New York - Birmingham and Tidewater, Norfolk - Birmingham service stopped in the SAL's Athens depot at College Avenue and Ware Street, north of downtown. Train service to Athens ended with the last run of the Silver Comet in 1969.[70][71][72][73] Freight service is provided by CSX[74] and Athens Line,[75] the latter having leased tracks from Norfolk Southern. The Georgia Department of Transportation has proposed the city as the terminus of a commuter line that links Atlanta and Gwinnett County along the Georgia 316 corridor.[76]

Utilities

Electric service in Athens-Clarke is provided by two customer-owned electric cooperatives, Walton EMC and Jackson EMC, as well as by Georgia Power, a subsidiary of Southern Company. Water utility is provided by the city. Garbage is provided by private companies according to customer purchase, though the city does offer municipal garbage pick up as a service. Natural gas is supplied by Atlanta Gas Light through various marketers within the deregulated market.

Healthcare

Sister cities

{{See also|List of sister cities in the United States}}

Notable people

{{columns-list|colwidth=30em|
  • Leonard Postero - Radio Personality, Leonard’s Losers
  • Coleman Barks – poet, interpreter of the 13th-century Sufi poet Rumi
  • Kevin Barnes – founding member of the band of Montreal
  • Kim Basinger – film actress
  • Bill Berry – founding member of R.E.M.
  • John Berry – singer
  • Fred Birchmore - adventurer and centenarian
  • Byron Bowers – Stand Up Comedian
  • Brian Bowles – martial artist
  • Titus Burgess - actor and singer
  • Frank Bush Nfl Assistant Coach Phil Campbell - farmer and politician
  • Henry Hull Carlton - member of the U.S. House of Representatives[77]
  • Bradford Cox – indie rock musician
  • Bob Cole – composer
  • Jeff Daniels – actor, born in Athens[78]
  • Leila Denmark – pediatrician and supercentenarian
  • Ben T. Epps – aviation pioneer
  • Colt Ford – country musician
  • Adam Frazier - MLB player
  • Marianne Gordon – actress
  • Henry W. Grady – journalist and orator; helped reintegrate the former Confederate States[79]
  • Willie Green – former NFL player
  • Forrest Griffin – MMA fighter
  • Young Harris – judge, philanthropist, and namesake of Young Harris College
  • Henry R. Jackson – Major General in the Georgia militia during the Civil War
  • Wadsworth Jarrell – artist
  • Andy Johnson – former NFL player
  • John Kasay – Carolina Panthers kicker
  • Brian Kemp – The Governor of Georgia
  • Todd Kimsey – actor (Seinfeld)[80]
  • Leo Kottke – acoustic guitarist
  • NeNe Leakes - reality TV star and actress, raised in Athens
  • Jeff Mangum – indie folk musician (lived in Athens until the early 2000s)
  • Eaddy Mays – television and film actress
  • Brian McCann – MLB player, born in Athens[81]
  • Mary Jackson McCrorey, educator, mission worker
  • Lou McGarity – jazz trombonist
  • Zach Mettenberger - NFL quarterback
  • Fred Mills – classical music professor and Grammy nominee
  • Mike Mills – founding member of R.E.M.
  • Quentin Moses – football linebacker for the Miami Dolphins, born in Athens
  • Madeleine Peyroux – jazz singer, songwriter, and guitarist, born in Athens
  • Edwin Pope - Miami sportswriter, born in Athens
  • Dunta Robinson – NFL player
  • Claire Merritt Hodgson Ruth – second wife of baseball great Babe Ruth
  • Mildred Seydell – one of the first female newspaper journalists in Georgia
  • Chuck Smith – former NFL defensive end
  • Scott Spillane – musician, The Gerbils and Neutral Milk Hotel
  • Lucy May Stanton – artist known for portrait miniatures[82]
  • Michael Stipe – founding member of R.E.M.
  • Keith Strickland – musician, composer and founding member of The B-52s
  • Fran Tarkenton – Hall of Fame quarterback
  • Laura Slade Wiggins – actress and musician
  • Cindy Wilson – founding member of The B-52s
  • Ricky Wilson – founding member of The B-52s
  • Eve Carson - 2004, slain Student Body President of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

}}

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  • {{cite journal |journal=Bulletin of the University of Georgia |volume=14 |title= Negroes of Athens, Georgia |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001650914 |year=1913 }}
  • {{Citation

|publisher = University of Georgia Press
|publication-place = Athens
|author = Federal Writers' Project
|title = Georgia: a Guide to Its Towns and Countryside
|publication-date = 1940
|series= American Guide Series
|chapter= Athens
|chapterurl= https://archive.org/stream/georgiaaguidetoi008333mbp#page/n28/mode/1up |via=Internet Archive
|page=1+
| ref = {{harvid|Federal Writers' Project|1940}}
}}
  • {{cite book |author= Kenneth Coleman |title=Confederate Athens|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ivfdhkbc89UC|publisher=University of Georgia Press|isbn=978-0-8203-3438-7 |year=2009 |orig-year= 1967

}}
  • {{cite book|author= Ernest C. Hynds |title=Antebellum Athens and Clarke County, Georgia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F3jXcKhBqnsC |publisher=University of Georgia Press|isbn=978-0-8203-3446-2 |year=2009 |orig-year= 1974

| ref = {{harvid|Hynds|1974}}
}}
  • James K. Reap, Athens: A Pictorial History (Virginia Beach, Va.: Donning Communications, 1982).
  • {{citation |title =Athens Historian |publisher=Athens Historical Society |oclc=36821172 }} 1996-
  • {{cite book|author1=Conoly Hester|author2=Albert L. Hester|title=Athens, Georgia: Celebrating 200 Years at the Millennium |publisher=Community Communications|isbn=978-1-885352-28-6 |location=Montgomery, Ala. |year= 1999

}}
Published in 21st century
  • {{cite book

|author=Paul T. Hellmann
|title=Historical Gazetteer of the United States
|year= 2006
|publisher=Taylor & Francis
|isbn=1-135-94859-3
|chapter= Georgia: Macon
|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=REtEXQNWq6MC
|pages=
| ref = {{harvid|Hellmann|2006}}
}}
  • {{cite book|author= Frances Taliaferro Thomas |title=A Portrait of Historic Athens & Clarke County|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o-8jFTZDrIwC |edition=2nd |publisher=University of Georgia Press|isbn=978-0-8203-3044-0 |year=2009

| ref = {{harvid|Thomas|2009}}
}}
  • {{cite book|editor1= Suzanne M. Leland |editor2=Kurt Thurmaier|title=City-County Consolidation: Promises Made, Promises Kept?|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ksV6dg8YlE8C|year=2010|publisher=Georgetown University Press|isbn=1-58901-622-X

|chapter=Unification promises and outcomes: the case of Athens and Clarke County, Georgia
|author= Dan Durning and Paula Sanford
| ref = {{harvid|Durning|2010}}
}}
  • {{cite book |series=Postcard History Series |title= Athens |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=cQaMPnfjoiQC |location= Charleston, S.C. |publisher= Arcadia |ISBN= |year= 2011

}}
  • {{cite book|author= Michael J. Gagnon |title=Transition to an Industrial South: Athens, Georgia, 1830-1870|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w7FNvyYj7wIC |publisher=Louisiana State University Press |isbn=978-0-8071-4510-4 |year= 2012

}}{{refend}}

External links

{{Commons category|Athens, Georgia}}{{wikivoyage|Athens (Georgia)|Athens, Georgia}}
  • Athens-Clarke County Guide
  • Athens-Clarke city/county government official site
  • OnlineAthens – Athens Banner-Herald
  • Athens profile, Georgia Encyclopedia
  • Athens Historic Newspapers Archive in the Digital Library of Georgia
  • Georgia Music Hall of Fame
  • Athens-Clarke County Library
  • Antebellum Athens and Clarke County, Georgia by Ernest C. Hynds in the Digital Library of Georgia
  • [https://www.athenshistorical.org/index Athens Historical Society]
  • {{citation |work=New Georgia Encyclopedia |publisher=Georgia Humanities Council |title= Athens |url= http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/counties-cities-neighborhoods/athens }}
  • {{cite web |url=http://www.libs.uga.edu/athens/history.html |publisher=University of Georgia Libraries |title=Athens-Clarke County Guide: History }}
  • {{cite web |url=http://www.athenslibrary.org/athens/departments/heritage/resources/subject-guides/athens |publisher= Athens-Clarke County Library |author= Heritage Room |title= Subject Guides: Athens }}
  • Items related to Athens, Georgia, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)
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