History of Atlanta
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The history of Atlanta dates back to 1836, when Georgia decided to build a railroad to the U.S. Midwest and a location was chosen to be the line's terminus. The stake marking the founding of "Terminus
Antebellum Atlanta: State Square and the first Union Station
Western & Atlantic Railroad's Zero Mile Post
Storefronts including Crawford, Frazer & Co.'s slave market on Whitehall Street, 1864
Railyards in Atlanta (1932)
The Western & Atlantic Railroad of the State of Georgia is a railroad owned by the State of Georgia and currently leased by CSX, which CSX operates in the Southeastern United States from Atlanta, Geor
History of Atlanta
…for land out west under the Treaty of New Echota, an act that led to the Trail of Tears. In 1836, the Georgia General Assembly voted to build the Western and Atlantic Railroad to provide a link between the port of Savannah and the Midwest. The initial route of that state-sponsored project was to run from Chattanooga, Tennessee…
One of the W&A's famous locomotives, The General, on display in the railroad's Union Depot in Chattanooga
CSXT 8029 is waiting for another train at the siding at Tunnel Hill, Georgia, on the Western & Atlantic Sub.
Western & Atlantic RR 25¢ bearer certificate, March, 1862
Battle of Allatoona Pass, 1864, for control of the line