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 Seat of Fulton County
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