| February 5, 1867 |
Stone Mountain Granite and Railway Company purchases Stone Mountain for $37,000 |
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Stone Mountain |
| February 14, 1867 |
The Augusta Baptist Institute is founded. With dilapidated infrastructure, no records and almost no funds, this was one of the first schools for African-Americans in the state. |
| March 25, 1867 |
Gutzon Borglum (John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum) born in Bear Lake, Idaho
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John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum |
| March 31, 1867 |
General John Pope arrives by train to the city of Atlanta, marking the second occupation of both Atlanta and Georgia
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| May 28, 1867 |
Morris Rich opens a dry goods store in Atlanta (36 Whitehall)
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| July 5, 1867 |
James Moore Wayne dies, Washington D. C.
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| September 9, 1867 |
Nine soldiers from Fort McPherson roam through Shermantown (a town of freedmen around Wheat St., today's Auburn Ave.), vandalizing homes and beating blacks. Note: Shermantown was a common name for African American communities in Georgia after the War Between the States (Civil War)
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| October 9, 1867 |
Atlanta's Oakland Cemetery makes its final purchase of land (total 88 acres).
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Oakland Cemetery |
| October 22, 1867 |
Edmund A. Ware is elected the first president of Atlanta University. |
