albany ( awl-bə-nee) is a city in the u.s. state of georgia.located on the flint river, it is the seat of dougherty county, and is the sole incorporated city in that county.located in southwest georgia, it is the principal city of the albany, georgia metropolitan area.the population was 77,434 at the 2010 u.s. census, making it the eighth-largest city in the state.it became prominent in the nineteenth century as a shipping and market center, first served by riverboats.scheduled steamboats connected albany with the busy port of apalachicola, florida.they were replaced by railroads.seven lines met in albany, and it was a center of trade in the southeast.it is part of the black belt, the extensive area in the deep south of cotton plantations.from the mid-20th century, it received military investment during world war ii and after, that helped develop the region.albany and this area were prominent during the civil rights era, particularly during the early 1960s as activists worked to regain voting and other civil rights.railroad restructuring and reduction in the military here caused job losses, but the city has developed new businesses.they used it for making arrowheads and other tools.in 1830 congress passed the indian removal act, and the united states made treaties to extinguish creek and other native american land claims in the southeast.the us army forcibly removed most of the native peoples to indian territory, lands west of the mississippi river.tift and his colleagues named the new town albany after the capital of new york; noting that new york's albany was a commercial center located at the headwaters of the hudson river, they hoped that their town near the headwaters of the flint would prove to be just as successful.it proved to be nowhere near as prosperous.alexander shotwell laid out the town in 1836, and it was incorporated as a city by an act of the general assembly of georgia on december 27, 1838.tift was the city's leading entrepreneur for decades.an ardent booster, he promoted education, business, and railroad construction.during the civil war he provided naval supplies and helped build two ships.he opposed radical reconstruction inside the state and in congress, and was scornful of the yankee carpetbaggers who came in.historian john fair concludes that tift became 'more southern than many natives.'his pro-slavery attitudes before the war and his support for segregation afterward made him compatible with georgia's white elite.this area was developed for cotton cultivation by planters, who used numerous enslaved african americans to clear lands and process the cotton.as a result of the planters' acquisition of slave workers, by 1840 dougherty county's majority population was black, composed overwhelmingly of slaves.the market center for cotton plantations, albany was in a prime location for shipping cotton to other markets by steamboats.in 1858, tift hired horace king, a former slave and bridge builder, to construct a toll bridge over the river.king's bridge toll house still stands.already important as a shipping port, albany later became an important railroad hub in southwestern georgia.seven lines were constructed to the town.an exhibit on trains is located at the thronateeska heritage center in the former railroad station.in the early years following the war, styles, like tift, took great exception to the radical reconstruction program then in force, and advocated for a more moderate response based on his interpretation of georgia's rights under the constitution.styles backed 'constitutional reconstruction' advanced by benjamin h. hill and sought support for the idea from the national democratic party.while on a trip to atlanta in may 1868, to meet with democratic party leaders, styles took measure of the contemporary atlanta newspapers, and found them lacking.
albany georgia | populationdensity | 5350 inhabitants per square kilometre
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