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The Capital City Club is a private social club located in Atlanta, Georgia. Chartered on May 21, 1883, it is the oldest private club in the South.

According to its charter, the purpose of the Club is “to promote the pleasure, kind feeling and general culture of its members." The Club presently operates three facilities for the use of its members. The first club house was located at 43 Walton Street. In August 1884, the club moved to a new establishment at 114 Peachtree Street. The present downtown Atlanta club building on Harris Street was dedicated on December 16, 1911. The Capital City Country Club, located in Brookhaven, was leased in 1913 and purchased in 1915. At that time the golf course was increased from nine to eighteen holes. The present country club building was erected in 1928. In 2002 an additional Club facility, the Crabapple Golf Club, was established on 1200 acres in the northern portion of Fulton County, Georgia.

Notable members of Capital City Club include:

• Asa Griggs Candler, Fouunder of the Coca-Cola Company
• Robert W. Woodruff, President of the Coca-Cola Company from 1923 until 1954
• Edwin P. Ansley, Atlanta real estate developer in the early 20th century
• Charles Collier, president of the Cotton States and International Exposition (1895)
• Joel Hurt, founder of the Trust Company of Georgia
• Joseph E. Brown, Civil War Governor of Georgia
• Alexander C. King and Jack Spalding, co-founders of American law firm King & Spalding
• John C. Portman, Jr., American architect and real estate developer
• William B. Hartsfield, American politician
• Alfred W. Jones, developer of Sea Island, Georgia
• Robert A. Toombs, Secretary of State of the Confederate States of America
• Henry W. Grady, famous New South advocate and editor of the Atlanta Constitution
• Robert Tyre "Bobby" Jones Jr., one of the greatest golfers who ever competed, founder of Augusta National Golf Club

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