Athens GA West Washington Street Downtown Fall Cityscape Landscape Art

Athens Georgia West Washington Street....by Reid Callaway... more

by Reid Callaway

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Athens GA West Washington Street Downtown Fall Cityscape Landscape Art

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Reid Callaway

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Photograph - Photography

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Athens Georgia West Washington Street....by Reid Callaway
Downtown Fall Cityscape Landscape Art

While capturing the SAE Fraternity House just behind me, this image presented itself to me in this facing east image with wonderful clouds gracing downtown Athens, Georgia. You are looking down W. Washington Street where there are many beautiful trees and fine eateries. I hope you like it! Enjoy!

Athens GA is the home of the University of Georgia Bulldogs.

Athens, officially Athens–Clarke County, is a consolidated city–county and college town in the U.S. state of Georgia. Athens lies about 70 miles (110 kilometers) northeast of downtown Atlanta. The home of the Georgia Bulldogs, The University of Georgia, the state's flagship public university and an R1 research institution, is in Athens and contributed to its initial growth. In 1991, after a vote the preceding year, the original City of Athens abandoned its charter to form a unified government with Clarke County, referred to jointly as Athens–Clarke County. As of 2019, the U.S. Census Bureau's estimated population of the consolidated city-county (all of Clarke County except Winterville and a portion of Bogart) was 126,913; the entire county including Winterville and Bogart had a population of 127,064. Athens is the sixth-largest city in Georgia, and the principal city of the Athens metropolitan area, which had a 2017 estimated population of 209,271, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Metropolitan Athens is a component of the larger Atlanta–Athens–Clarke County–Sandy Springs Combined Statistical Area.

The city is dominated by a pervasive college town culture and music scene centered in downtown Athens, next to the University of Georgia's North Campus. Major music acts associated with Athens include numerous alternative rockbands such as R.E.M., the B-52's, Widespread Panic, Drive-By Truckers, of Montreal and Neutral Milk Hotel. The city is also known as a recording site for such groups as the Atlanta-based Indigo Girls. The 2020 book Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture describes Athens as the model of the indie culture of the 1980s.

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November 10th, 2019