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

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. It stood at the northwest side of

State Square State Square was the central square of antebellum Atlanta, Georgia. The original Atlanta Union Depot designed by Edward A. Vincent stood in the middle of the square. The square was bounded by Marietta Street (now Decatur Street) on the northeast, ...

, 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 Dr. 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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