Pemberton Place Pemberton Place Pemberton Place, located in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, just north of Centennial Olympic Park in the Luckie Marietta district, is a complex that is home to the Georgia Aquarium, the World of Coca-Cola, and the Center for Civil and Human Rights. It is named after John Pemberton, the inventor of Coca-Cola. The area was originally ten city blocks of businesses, residences, etc.; it started to decline in the mid-20th century and by the early 1990s was considered a "long forgotten district of downtown". The Coca-Cola Company acquired property in the area and built Coca-Cola Olympic City there, for the
John C. Pemberton Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia, where his mother and father had been buried. Despite a supposed decision that the Confederate Pemberton would be interred elsewhere; he ended up in an obscure area of the cemetery. His sisters Rebecca Clifford Pemberton Newbold (1820-1883) and Anna Clifford Pemberton Hollingsworth (1816-1884) and brother Israel Pemberton (1813-1885, a railroad engineer) were buried at Laurel Hill shortly thereafter. Other later Pemberton family burials at Laurel Hill would include his brothers who fought for the Union, Lt. Andrew Jackson Pemberton (1831-1900) and Pvt. Clifford Pemberton (1835-1897), his widow, sons John Jr. (1853-1934) and Francis (1856-1923) and