Rails through the Wiregrass

by H. Roger Grant

The Georgia & Florida Railroad began with bright promise, but like many other enterprises in the early twentieth-century South, it experienced hard times. The story begins in 1906, when--responding to a perceived need for better connections to northern markets--a group of entrepreneurs led by prominent Virginia banker John Skelton Williams began to cobble together logging short lines to create more than 350 miles of railroad connecting Augusta,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875803652
• ISBN13: 9780875803654
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher