Rails Through the Wiregrass

A History of the Georgia & Florida Railroad

H. Roger Grant

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Northern Illinois University Press
10 October 2006

Railway transport industries

The Georgia & Florida Railroad began with bright promise, but like many other enterprises in the early 20th-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, Georgia, with Madison, Florida.

At first the G&F triggered growth in its region as several new towns sprang up or expanded along its lines. By 1915, however, the economic dislocations caused by World War I threw the G&F into receivership, and a few years later the G&F came close to dismemberment. Fortunately, shippers and investors rallied to the railroadAEs cause, and business conditions improved. In 1926 the road was reorganized and, under pressure to u201cexpand or die,u201d built to Greenwood, South Carolina.

The Great Depression forced the G&F into bankruptcy, and after its record-length receivership, it was acquired by the Southern Railway in 1963. When the Southern Railway dissolved the corporation and abandoned much of the former trackage, the G&F became the u201cGone & Forgotten.u201d Yet in its 57-year lifespan the G&F did much to bring about agricultural diversification and relative prosperity in the wiregrass region of southern Georgia and northern Florida.

Offering insights on social and economic conditions in the South from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century, GrantAEs study of this obscure yet noteworthy railroad will appeal to those interested in transportation, business, railroad, and Southern regional history.

By: H. Roger Grant
Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 907g
ISBN: 9780875803654
ISBN 10: 0875803652
Pages: 239
Publication Date: 10 October 2006
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Railroad Company Abbreviations 1: Before the G&F 2: The G&F Emerges, 1906–1910 3: Established at Last, 1911–1925 4: ""Expand or Die,"" 1926–1930 5: Developing the Wiregrass Region 6: Depression, War and Continued Challenges, 1931–1948 7: The Final Years, 1949–1963 Epilogue Notes Index"

H. Roger Grant, Professor of History at Clemson University, is author of 23 books, most of them on railroad history. His earlier company histories cover the Chicago & North Western, the Chicago Great Western, the Erie Lackawanna, and the Wabash railroads.

Reviews for Rails Through the Wiregrass: A History of the Georgia & Florida Railroad

A meticulous account of a long-neglected railroad by one of the nation's best-known railroad historians. --Maury Klein, University of Rhode Island The most thorough study on this fascinating railroad. --Robert H. Hanson, author of History of the Georgia Railroad and The West Point Route As always with Grant's railroad histories, research was thorough. -- Journal of Southern History