Golden Age

HISTORY

Newspaper

  • Religious newspaper published in Atlanta. Reported prominently on the prohibition movement. Founded by William David Upshaw, prohibitionist, author of "Echoes from a Recluse," and U.S. representative from Georgia from 1919-1926, in February 1906.

  • "Piety in Home--Power in the Life--Purity in the State"--motto

  • L.G. Broughton [Baptist minister and founder of the Tabernacle Infirmary (later the Georgia Baptist Hospital, Atlanta)], Sam P. Jones, Alex W. Bealer [Baptist minister], Charles Spurgeon Jackson [President of Bessie Tift College], A.C. Dixon, Arthur E. Ramsaur [editor of the Calhoun Times, Gordon County in 1904], and William D. Upshaw associated with the paper, see Cherokee Advance, January 26, 1906.

City

County

Superior Court Districts

  • 1833 - Coweta Circuit

  • 1869 - Atlanta Circuit

Population - Census

  • 1880 49,137

  • 1890 84,665

  • 1900 117,363

  • 1910 177,733

  • 1920 232606

  • 1930 318587

ALREADY DIGITIZED BY DLG

  • None

FILM HOLDINGS

  • Mar 1906- Aug 1907

  • Sep 1907- Apr 1909

  • May 1909- Feb 1911

  • Mar 1911- Apr 22, 1915