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A chief engineer identifies the terminus point; a stake is driven into the ground, and, around that marker, the City of Atlanta grows. It’s a pretty neat story. . . except that isn’t exactly how it happened. Nothing, it seems, is ever safe from political intrigue and that would include the founding of the City of Atlanta.Before construction began on the State-owned Western and Atlantic Railroad, the terminus point, which was the exact point wher…