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Atlanta is a town in Jackson Township, in the rural northern part of Hamilton County, Indiana.

Atlanta grew out of the merger of three neighboring settlements — Spargerville, Shielville, and Buena Vista — the earliest of which was laid out in 1834, when Irish-born settler Gen. Michael Sheil, remembered as the father of the town, built a trading post in the area in 1836.

The community has been called Atlanta since 1885, most likely named after Atlanta, Georgia, and the town was incorporated in 1900.

Atlanta had 712 residents at the 2020 census, and the 2010 census counted 725 people living in 265 households.

During Indiana's natural gas boom of the late 1800s, Atlanta was a boom town whose tin-plate factories, flour mill, brickyard and other industries employed close to 2,000 people by the turn of the century, but the boom collapsed in the 1930s when the gas field ran dry and the factories moved away.

The Roads Hotel, a Queen Anne-style railroad-era hotel built in 1893, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987, and Atlanta's Carnegie library was constructed in 1916.

Atlanta hosts the Atlanta New Earth Festival, Hamilton County's longest-running and largest festival, held on the fourth weekend of September since 1974, when it started with just 25 vendors; today it brings more than 600 vendors to a town of fewer than 1,000 people.

Just outside town, Roberts Chapel is tied to Roberts Settlement, one of Indiana's most historic African American pioneer communities.

Atlanta's small size is a sharp contrast with Hamilton County as a whole, whose population more than tripled between 1990 and 2020 to about 347,000 people.