The Atlanta Terminal Station, pictured circa 1905, was designed in a Renaissance revival style by architect P. Thornton Marye. The structure, a pioneer work in reinforced concrete, was razed in 1971. The New Georgia Encyclopedia does not hold the copyright for this media resource and can neither grant nor deny permission to republish or reproduce the image online or in print. Requests for permission to publish or reproduce the resource should be submitted to the Georgia Archives.

Augusta's Riverwalk development includes a convention center, a museum, shops, and other amenities, with a park along the riverfront. The Riverwalk was created as part of the city's downtown revitalization effort. The New Georgia Encyclopedia does not hold the copyright for this media resource and can neither grant nor deny permission to republish or reproduce the image online or in print. All requests for permission to publish or reproduce the resource must be submitted to the rights holder.

World-famous evangelist Billy Graham has held four crusades in Georgia—one in Augusta, in 1948, and three in Atlanta, in 1950, 1973, and 1994. Each of these large revivals drew thousands of people from across the South. Graham grew up on a dairy farm in Charlotte, North Carolina. In 1939 he was ordained by a church in the Southern Baptist Convention and went on to attend the Florida Bible Institute (later Trinity College) in Trinity, Florida.

With more than forty years of experience, Bobby Ross remains one of the few football coaches to have enjoyed success at both the collegiate and professional levels. In 1990, as head coach at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in Atlanta, he led the Yellow Jackets to an undefeated season and a share of the national title. Four years later he took the San Diego Chargers of the National Football League (NFL) to Super Bowl XXIX, where they were defeated by the San Francisco 49ers.

An unusually large number of notable bodybuilders and weight lifters have hailed from Georgia. They include two Mr. Americas, a Mr. Olympia, two “World’s Strongest Man” claimants, one of the world’s greatest female power lifters, and a world champion arm wrestler. Georgia is also the home of two of the most successful weight-lifting programs in the nation. Early Developments The first of these preeminent Georgia athletes was Bob Hoffman, so-called Father of American Weight Lifting, who was born in Tifton in 1898.