G.E. Nordell's
Atlanta, Georgia
Travel & Business Links Page

official links
Atlanta Metropolitan Area
a few important people
general links
print & broadcast media
food & beverage
lodging
reading material
nearby cities & towns

Indian Country ?

postcard 'Greetings From Atlanta, Georgia'

page under construction {started in mid-2018}

flag of the State of Arizona

Official Government Links & Info
New Mexico covers 114,000 square miles {295,250 square kilometers}.
The state was admitted to the Union on 14 February {the 48th state}.
The popular name is 'Grand Canyon State'.
The state flower is the Saguaro Cactus Blossom; the state bird is the Cactus Wren.
The state animal is 'road kill'.

Official Website of the State of Arizona
Arizona Office of Tourism [requires Flash]
Arizona Scenic Roads [USDOT website]
browse Travel Books / USA / Georgia / Atlanta at Amazon

Atlanta, Georgia Metropolitan Area
is comprised of 30 counties
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_metropolitan_area

metro area core counties

Fulton County (1,041,423)

Gwinnett County (920,260)
Duluth, Georgia - 27 miles north of Atlanta

Cobb County (755,754)
Kennesaw, Georgia Trackside Grill, 2840 S Main St. NW Kennesaw, GA www.TracksideGrill.com Summers Street Restaurant "Casual Dining in Kennesaw" 2689 Summers St. Kennesaw, GA 30144 My Country Kitchen = Home Style Country Buffet! 2740 Summers St. Kennesaw, GA Wildman's Civil War Surplus, 2879 So. Main St. Kennesaw, GA http://www.wildmans-civilwar-surplus.com/ Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park http://www.nps.gov/kemo/index.htm the Southern Museum of Civil War & Locomotive History in Kennesaw, Georgia

DeKalb County (753,253)
Brookhaven [GA] Cherry Blossom Festival [April 2016 = #2]

Clayton County (285,153)
http://www.visitscarlett.com/ = Clayton County GA
The Twelve Oaks Inn [built 1836], 2176 Monticello Street SW in Covington, Georgia

above counties along with five more make up the Atlanta Regional Commission
Cherokee County (247,573)
Douglas County (143,882)
Fayette County (112,549)
Henry County (225,813)
Rockdale County (90,312)

the ten ARC counties and five more form the Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District [est. 2001]
Bartow County (105,054)
Coweta County (143,114)
Hall County (199,335)

Forsyth County (227,967)

Racial Cleansing In America book by Patrick Phillips "Blood At The Root: A Racial Cleansing In America" [2016] by Patrick Phillips
winner of dozens of Best Book or Top Ten Books of The Year awards; covers the 'racial
cleansing' in Georgia's Forsyth County in 1912 • 1912 racial conflict entry at Wikipedia
Kindle Edition from W.W. Norton & Co. [9/2016] for $9.04
W.W. Norton & Co. 8¼x5½ pb [9/2017] for $12.82
W.W. Norton & Co. 9½x6½ hardcover [9/2016] for $17.54

Paulding County (159,445)

the remaining 15 counties in Georgia's Atlanta Metropolitan Area are:
Barrow County (79,061)
Butts County (24,059)
Carroll County (117,812)
Dawson County (24,379)
Haralson County (29,256)
Heard County (11,730)
Jasper County (13,964)
Lamar County (18,599)
Meriwether County (21,049)
Morgan County (18,412)
Newton County (108,078)
Pickens County (31,588)
Pike County (18,217)
Spalding County (65,380)
Walton County (91,600)

A Few Important People
Gov. Janet Napolitano [Flash only]
U.S. Senator Jon Kyl [since 1994]
U.S. Senator John McCain [since 1986]

Afro-American entertainment mogul Tyler Perry is based in Atlanta, Georgia
Tyler Perry Studios [est. 10/2008] in Atlanta, Georgia

General Business Links

browse travel books about New Mexico U.S.A. at Amazon

Rock The Ink tattoo convention [Dec 2009 = #1] in Atlanta, Georgia
Peachtree Village International Film Festival [Aug 2011 = #6] in Atlanta, Georgia
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center [est. 1968] in Atlanta, Georgia

www.high.org High Museum of Art in Atlanta
www.AtlantaFestivals.com incl Jazz in May
www.underground-Atlanta.com
www.AtlanticStation.com
www.WoCCatlanta.com World of Coca-Cola
www.FoxTheatre.org in Atlanta + palaces
https://www.simon.com/mall/lenox-square atlanta
https://www.simon.com/mall/phipps-plaza atlanta
E.U.E./Screen Gems Studios - Atlanta, Georgia
www.PiedmontPark.com in Atlanta
Atlanta Cyclorama & Civil War Museum in Atlanta, Georgia.
The Carter Center [est. 1982] in Atlanta, Georgia

Print & Broadcast Media
http://www.ajc.com/ = Atlanta Journal + Atlanta Constitution

Food & Beverage
Dr. Bombay's Underwater Tea Shop in Atlanta
world's largest drive-in diner is The Varsity in downtown Atlanta
Atlanta Beer [] by Ron Smith and Mary O. Boyle

Lodging
www.EllisHotel.com [built 1913]

Reading Material, Other Media

Northern Arizona
Northern Arizona Zene Magazine

Arizona Highways Magazine "Arizona Highways" Magazine
published by Arizona Department of Transportation
12 issues/12 months [USA only] for $24.00
magazine website

Atlanta Scenes (Images of America Series) isbn=0738515493 Kimberly S. Blass, Rose Michael Paperback, August 2003