Trivia: Which of these was NOT a former name of Atlanta, Georgia?
Marthasville
Thrasherville
Terminus
Peach Grove
The correct answer is Peach Grove
So why is this answer correct? : Before Atlanta was called “Atlanta,” the railroad junction area went by the names Terminus (because it was the end of the railroad line), Thrasherville (after a man named “Cousin John” Thrasher), and Marthasville (in honor of the then-governor’s daughter). Finally, in the 1840s, the city was reincorporated as Atlanta, which became the official state capital in 1877.