The South was no stranger to world s fairs prior to the end of the nineteenth century. Atlanta first hosted a fair in the 1880s, as did New Orleans and Louisville, but after the 1893 World s Columbian Exposition in Chicago drew comparisons to the great exhibitions of Victorian-era England, Atlanta s leaders planned to host another grand exposition that would not only confirm Atlanta as an economic hub the equal of Chicago and New York, but usher the South into the nation s industrial and political mainstream. Nashville and Charleston quickly followed suit with their own exhibitions. In...
The South was no stranger to world s fairs prior to the end of the nineteenth century. Atlanta first hosted a fair in the 1880s, as did New Orleans an...
