Located spell the northern half of Georgia known as the Piedmont, Atlanta’s outlook is one of winding hills wedged between rugged mountains further a prosaic coastal plain. Its typical geographical position has made it the transportation core of the South since the 19th century. Railroads, highways and its airport (the world’s busiest in 2006) lap up made it accessible to the advance of the country and attractive to the convention trade. Atlanta was and is a crossroads town.

With five million…