Not All Fun and Games - SaportaReport

Not All Fun and Games - SaportaReport

In response to competition from South Carolina, the State of Georgia embraced the fledgling railroad industry. The idea was to establish new trade opportunities by building a railroad system that would connect Georgia to the rest of the United States. Key to that plan was constructing a state-owned railroad line that would terminate in north Georgia at a point south of the Chattahoochee River. That point, of course, would one day become the City…