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 continued by the Reverend R.B. Earée after Pemberton's death. In 1872, when John Walter Scott held the first stamp auction in Europe, Pemberton provided one of the first expert reports on the genuineness of two 20 cent St. Louis Postmaster Provisional stamps which were considered by many to be forgeries. Pemberton was an active contributor to many philatelic journals, including "The Stamp-Collector's Magazine" and "The Philatelist". He was editor of "The Stamp-Collector's Review and Monthly Advertiser" from January 1864. In 1872 he started "The Philatelical Journal", dedicated to advanced philately, which was the house organ of his stamp dealing firm