The Power Play: 100 Years: Lake Burton and Georgia’s Hydroelectric Revolution

<p>At Southern Company, we are honoring the past while we build for the future.</p>
<p>“The Power Play: 100 Years: Lake Burton and Georgia’s Hydroelectric Revolution” is a documentary that will “follow the journey through the decades and trace the little-known historical facts of Georgia’s development of electricity and the people who made it happen.”</p>
<p>Southern Company provided support for this new film that treats viewers to more than 150 years of history, from the formation of Georgia Power to Atlanta’s triumph of hosting the 1996 Olympic games.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.gpb.org/television/shows/gpb-originals/episode/593cf1fd-804c-486c-ae2e-d88038554cfd" target="_blank">Follow along</a> as Henry Atkinson, Georgia Power founder, and Preston Arkwright, his attorney, embrace a vision of the New South that allowed Atlanta to rise from the ashes and become a city of the future.</p>