It was uninhabited when it was chosen as a terr. capital in 1836 & named for a president who died that year
The wooded site was still uninhabited, but construction of a capitol 
building... [DOC] [TLE] History - State Capitol - GeorgiaInfo [PAR] The story of how Atlanta came to be Georgia's capital cityand of the gold-
domed ... To trace the history of these capitals, we must go back over 200 years, 
beginning ...