Franklin Miller Garrett (September 25, 1906 – March 5, 2000) was an American historian, particularly of Atlanta, Georgia. His massive Atlanta and Environs: A Chronicle of its People and Events is a book about the city's history.
Franklin Miller Garrett (September 25, 1906 – March 5, 2000) was an American historian, particularly of Atlanta, Georgia. His massive Atlanta and Environs: A Chronicle of its People and Events is a book about the city's history.
A native of Milwaukee, he moved to Atlanta in 1914. He graduated from Technological High School in Atlanta, Georgia. He joined the Atlanta Historical Society in 1927 (a year after it was founded) which is today known as the Atlanta History Center. He served as historian for the Coca-Cola Company for 28 years. After retirement he devoted his full-time efforts to the Atlanta History Center.
Atlanta and Environs was said to be building on Wallace Putnam Reed's History of Atlanta, Georgia (1889).
Garrett was married to Frances Steele Garrett, who died in September 2005.
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