100 Georgia the Story of Atlanta: an incubator for many large enterprises
Atlantans, it was found by the hundreds on Christmas Day 1855, we observe the lighting of the city of the first road gas lantern. The event also marked the birth of Atlanta Gas Light Co., Atlanta, the oldest store.
Atlanta Gas Light operated throughout the Battle of Atlanta in 1864, but its gas plants were destroyed, while Union General William T. Sherman army began its march from the sea by the destruction of all military on the Confederates.
Today, given that AGL Resources, it’s a New York Stock Exchange distributes natural gas in Georgia and several other countries.
The company is also No. 717 on the Fortune 1000 list of largest U.S. companies based on 2006 revenue - one of 26 companies of its kind in Georgia, 22 U-Bahn in Atlanta.
This concentration of large enterprises, Atlanta and Georgia in the upper ranks of American cities and states as sites of major public enterprises - until he was in New York, Houston and Chicago.
And while Georgia has been a magnet to attract large companies to change any other, its soil fertile soil has also been the home-grown companies such as Atlanta Gas Light, has grown over time, national or international .
Coca-Cola Co. is at the bottom of the hands of the most famous in Atlanta.
It comes on 8 May 1886, when John S. Pemberton druggist a set of new uses in a pot with three legs in his backyard, drink and sold as drinking wells. Like many elixirs time, it was known as “good for what ails you.
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