Every record, as a page

This is the store of the records behind the Atlanta map: the 87 lake histories and the entries in the map's four modes, Water (lost lakes, buried creeks, dams), Civil War (the 1864 campaign), Segregation (the color line over time) and Early (the land before the city). What the map shows for most entries comes from its record here. Each record's page puts that text beside the sources it rests on, so you can check a statement against where it came from.

A few things on the map are not in the store. The 1864 site pins in the Civil War mode carry their own source links, and the map's imagery and depth layers are kept separately. A lake's Watermark appears on that lake's page.

AI research agents drafted the written records from public sources and cited them, and a second AI pass checked their claims against those sources. Dam records carry the National Inventory of Dams' own figures. A page says when its sources are thin or partly disagree, and when a location is approximate. Every page names the license of its text and the credit for its record, and links to How we know and to a way to suggest a correction.

Cemeteries and burial grounds, Native American places and a few Civil War sites are shown as places. Their pages give the name, the history, the era, the sources and the same point the map shows, where it shows one. They leave out street addresses and directions. The fuller records are in the members-only edition for history clubs.