Atlanta rose from the ashes after it burned down, but it didn't just pop up from train tracks in the 1800s like the books say. The Creek and Cherokee Nations built Atlanta in the 1700s when the area between Bankhead and Buckhead was an intersection called Standing Peachtree.
When people make "Atlanta roads are terrible" jokes, it's because they paved over ancient Creek hunting trails. When people make "too many Peachtree Streets" jokes it's the colonists' fault for confusing peach trees with a giant pine tree that the Cherokee ritually lit on fire. And please stop making that joke because it expired when GPS was invented.
