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
Edward Loines Pemberton "James R. Grant and Co". "The Philatelic Record", edited by Maitland Burnett, was founded in 1879 in Pemberton's memory. Pemberton's first advertisement as a stamp dealer appeared in the "Boys Own Magazine" in October 1862. In 1869, Adelaide Fenton recorded that William Dudley Atlee was Pemberton's clerk. In 1871 Pemberton formed the stamp company "James R. Grant and Co." After his death his business was taken over by A.H. Wilson, and continued under the name of "Pemberton, Wilson & Co." It was eventually acquired by Theodor Buhl. Edward Loines Pemberton Edward Loines Pemberton (10 December 1844 – 12 December 1878)