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Oakland City is annexed into Atlanta
Oakland City, Atlanta, Georgia
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Oakland City incorporated as its own town in 1894, southwest of Atlanta and separate from it. Sixteen years later Atlanta swallowed it. The street grid of bungalows and craftsman houses survived the annexation and is now a National Register historic district.
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