| January 4, 1887 |
Piedmont Driving Club (horses, not cars) in Atlanta is formed by 100 white men (a requirement to join the club)
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Piedmont Park |
| April 9, 1887 |
Piedmont Exposition is officially proposed
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Piedmont Park |
| April 14, 1887 |
The Gentlemen's Driving Club agrees that "Doc" Walker's estate is the future home of the club |
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Piedmont Park |
| April 19, 1887 |
Gentleman's Driving Club agrees to purchase the 189-acre tract of Doc Walker. |
| May 5, 1887 |
First contract awarded for a building on the campus of Georgia Tech. (Tech Tower)
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| May 28, 1887 |
First track and field contest held at the University of Georgia
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University of Georgia, Athens (UGA) |
| June 1, 1887 |
Future Gov. Hoke Smith buys an interest in the Atlanta Journal and becomes president of the paper
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| June 28, 1887 |
The name Coca-Cola is trademarked by John S. Pemberton. He registered it in his name, not the name of the Pemberton Chemical Company.
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John Stith (Styth) Pemberton |
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Coca-Cola |
| July 1, 1887 |
Doc Walker deeds his land to the Gentleman's Driving Club for $38,000. It will become Piedmont Park. |
| August 6, 1887 |
Just west of Macon, in Bibb County, nine members of Tom Woolfolk's family were murdered with an ax.
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Bibb County, Georgia |
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Tom Woolfolk and the Woolfolk Family murders |
| August 28, 1887 |
Woodrow and Ellen Wilson have the second of their three daughters at Ellen's aunt's house in Gainesville, Georgia
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Woodrow Wilson |
| October 8, 1887 |
Piedmont Park opens (for whites only)
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Piedmont Park |
| October 10, 1887 |
The Piedmont Exposition opens
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Piedmont Park |
| October 17, 1887 |
U. S. President Grover Cleveland visits the Piedmont Exposition in Atlanta
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Piedmont Park |
| October 22, 1887 |
Piedmont Exposition (Atlanta) is completed.
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| November 8, 1887 |
John Henry "Doc" Holiday dies from tuberculosis in Glenwood, Colorado.
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Doc Holliday (John Henry Holliday)
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