Atlanta was founded as a railroad’s dead end — now it’s HQ to Coca-Cola, Delta and UPS
- World’s busiest airport for 27 of the last 28 years
- Coca-Cola was invented here in 1886
- Home Depot, Delta and UPS are all headquartered here too
- The Peach State, 4th to ratify the Constitution (1788)
How Georgia’s digital economy grew
Atlanta is founded as "Terminus"
The literal surveyed endpoint of the Western & Atlantic Railroad. It was renamed Marthasville in 1843, then Atlanta in 1845.
A corporate hub built on a railroad junction
Atlanta wasn’t founded organically — it was staked out in 1837 as the endpoint of the Western & Atlantic Railroad, and by 1846 two more rail lines converged on the same spot. That connectivity is still the city’s defining asset. Four major headquarters converge on one metro today: Coca-Cola (invented in Atlanta in 1886), Delta Air Lines (headquartered there since 1941), Home Depot (founded in the area in 1978) and UPS (moved its HQ from Seattle in 1991). Eighteen Fortune 500 companies are headquartered statewide, sixteen of them in metro Atlanta — the 8th-highest concentration of any US metro.
The world’s busiest airport, verified current
Hartsfield-Jackson has held the #1 spot for passenger traffic every year since 1998 except 2020. The most recent full-year figures, released by the industry’s own governing body in 2026, show Atlanta handled 106.3 million passengers in 2025 — ahead of Dubai and Tokyo Haneda, the third-highest total on record for the airport itself.
How Georgia businesses buy websites
Metro Atlanta’s corporate giants get the headlines, but most of Georgia’s businesses are the trades, clinics and shops serving Atlanta’s suburbs, Savannah’s port economy, and towns across the rest of the state.
Trades and home services
Metro Atlanta sprawls across dozens of counties — be specific about which ones you actually serve.
Professional and B2B services
A logistics and corporate hub rewards clarity about exactly what you do and for whom.
Shops and hospitality
Clear hours and location, readable on a phone, matter as much in Macon or Savannah as they do in Atlanta.
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What was Atlanta’s original name when it was founded in 1837?
Why FastSites works here
A city that turned a railroad dead-end into the world’s busiest airport understands the value of a strong, simple foundation done right. A one-page site, live in days, at a published price, is that same instinct applied to a small business’s website.