The Atlanta Hotel, also known as Thompson's Hotel, was one of the original hotels in

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, United States. It stood at the northwest side of

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, pre-war Atlanta's central square, on the northwest side of Pryor Street between Decatur Street (then Marietta Street) and what is now Wall Street (which before the war was the railroad track). The hotel was run by Joseph Thompson. The future vice-president of the

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, was stabbed in 1848 on the hotel's steps ("piazza") by Judge Francis H. Cone over a political argument. The hotel was destroyed during

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References

Robert Scott Davis, ''Civil War Atlanta'', p.20

M. Thomas Inge, ''High Times and Hard Times'', p.86
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