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Topic: Georgia Railroad and Banking Company

	New Georgia Encyclopedia: William Washington Gordon (1796-1842)
		He was also the first president of the Central Railroad and Banking Company (later the Central of Georgia Railway), the corporation that constructed the first rail line connecting the port of Savannah with the cotton-growing interior of the state.
		The construction of a railroad from Savannah to the interior became crucial to the economy of Georgia in 1833, when South Carolina completed a 136-mile rail line from the port of Charleston to Hamburg, a town directly across the Savannah River from Augusta.
		In 1833 the legislature granted charters to three railroad companies, including the Central Railroad and Canal Company of Georgia, which in 1835, after banking powers were granted to railroad companies, became the Central of Georgia Railroad and Banking Company.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-3238 (983 words)

	New Georgia Encyclopedia: First National Bank of Atlanta/Wachovia Bank, N.A.
		In the 1950s the Georgia state banking laws changed to limit banking consolidations across city and county lines, and bank mergers slowed until the 1970s, when acquisition of banks across county lines was again permitted.
		The Atlanta National Bank charter remained operative until interstate banking legislation, passed by Congress in the 1990s, allowed bank holding companies to merge multiple bank charters into a single banking organization, and the Atlanta National charter was surrendered in favor of the charter of Wachovia Bank.
		This charter was extended in 1870, and in 1890 the bank charter was transferred to the Georgia Railroad Bank.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1015 (843 words)

	Georgia Railroad and Banking Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Georgia Railroad (AAR reporting mark GA) was originally chartered in 1833 starting in Augusta, Georgia it was completed into Atlanta by Chief Engineer J.
		The Georgia Railroad fell under common management with the Atlanta and West Point Railroad and the Western Railway of Alabama.
		These were later merged with the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and the Clinchfield Railroad to form the Family Lines System.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Georgia_Railroad_and_Banking_Company (284 words)

	@ugusta History: Georgia Railroad and Banking, June 21, 1996
		The Georgia Railroad and Banking Co. was one of the oldest and most prominent companies in the state, one that loaned Augusta leadership and invested it with much respect.
		In 1836, the company purchased land ``on the northwest corner of Broad and McIntosh (Seventh) streets for the banking house,.
		Georgia Railroad Bank was formed as subsidiary of the company about 1890 to avoid taxation.
	chronicle.augusta.com /history/railbank.html (622 words)

	Georgia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Georgia (U.S. state), a constituent state of the United States of America.
		Formerly Province of Georgia, one of the Thirteen Colonies (1732–1805).
		South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, a territory of the United Kingdom in the South Atlantic Ocean
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Georgia (196 words)

	Middle Georgia Rail Trail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Macon and Augusta Railroad Company was chartered in 1859 and completed the railroad construction in 1873.
		The company that operated the railway was called the “Georgia Railroad”.
		In its last years of operation the company in charge was the “Central of Georgia Railroad.” The name of the rail trail should be derived from one of these sources.
	pages.prodigy.net /bikemap/page2.html (264 words)

	Central of Georgia Railway
		The Eatonton Branch Railroad, from Milledgeville to Eatonton, was leased by the Central.
		The Central leased the Augusta and Savannah Railroad in 1862 and the Southwestern Railroad in 1869.
		In 1875, the Georgia Railroad and the Central jointly purchased the Western Railroad of Alabama.
	www.railga.com /cofg.html (1297 words)

	Railroad
		The Georgia Railroad was chartered Dec. 21 and construction commenced in Augusta in 1835, pushing westward toward the Chattahoochee Valley in western Georgia.
		The Western and Atlantic Railroad of the State of Georgia was created by an act of the General Assembly of Georgia on December 21, 1836.
		These legislative acts provided for a railroad to be surveyed and constructed from a point near present-day Chattanooga on the Tennessee River, to an eligible point on the southeastern bank of the Chattahoochee River in Georgia.
	www.forttyler.com /railroad.htm (624 words)

	About CSXT: Rail Heritage - CSXT's History
		The Louisa Railroad Company, Chesapeake and Ohio Railway's (CandO) oldest predecessor, was chartered on Feb. 18.
		The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad was reorganized between 1873 and 1878 during receivership and was renamed the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (CandO) of July 1, 1878.
		The properties of the James River and Kanawha Company, a canal enterprise, were acquired by the Richmond and Alleghany Railroad, and the canal towpath was used to build a railroad from Richmond to Clifton Forge, Va. The James River Company, an earlier canal enterprise, was organized in August 1785.
	csx.history.railfan.net /history/history.html (1395 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In addition to the canal, the relocation of Georgia Railroad and Banking Company headquarters to Augusta boosted hope for prosperity.
		Following a hostile takeover of this Athens-based company in 1841, John Pendleton King oversaw the completion of the Augusta to Atlanta line and the firm's continued financial success; the company surplused about $1 million by the advent of the Civil War.
		In the 1870s and 1880s, railroads such as the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company and Central Railroad of Georgia rebuilt lines, purchased new equipment and expanded the existing transportation network.
	www.hts.gatech.edu /south/georgia/richmond/augsum.htm (2353 words)

	FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code
		This was a proceeding in the courts of Georgia to declare invalid an assessment by the State Revenue Commissioner against the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company on the ground that the tax as applied to the appellant impairs the obligation of contracts.
		To encourage railroad development, the State of Georgia in 1833 chartered the Georgia Railroad Company (which later became the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company), and gave the railroadcertain im munity from taxation.
		Georgia Railroad & Banking Co., 216 U.S. As to the astuteness of taxpayers in ordering their affairs so as to minimize taxes we have said that 'the very meaning of a line in the law is that you intentionally may go as close to it as you can if you do not pass it.' Superior
	caselaw.lp.findlaw.com /scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=332&invol=168 (1618 words)

	GeorgiaRailroad
		The Georgia Railroad Company was chartered December 21, 1883, to build a line of railroad fron Augusta to Athens with branches to Madison and Eatonton.
		The original Savannah and Atlanta Railroad consisted of 33 miles of track from St. Clair, Georgia, to Camak, Georgia.This was merged with the Savannah and Northwestern Railroad to reach from Savannah to Camak, with the work being completed in August 1916.
		Camak, Georgia is a joint agency for the Southern (S and A) Railroad and the Georgia Railroad.
	www.camaksrailroaddays.com /GeorgiaRailroad.html (759 words)

	Georgia Southwestern Railroad, Inc.
		between 1869 and 1870 by The Montgomery and Eufaula Railroad Company, and was initially acquired by The Central Railroad and Banking Co. in 1879, it was formally transferred to the Central of Georgia in 1895.
		The connecting branch at Eufaula was originally The Eufaula and Clayton Railroad Co. built in 1872 (actually constructed by the Vicksburg and Brunswick Railroad Co.); between 1887 and 1888 the line was extended from Clayton to Ozark by The Eufaula and East Alabama Railway Co., in 1888 both the EandC Railroad and EandEA Ry.
		In September 1996, the Georgia Southwestern Railroad Co., was incorporated to consolidate the operations of the 3 divisions of the South Carolina Central (GSW, GAAB, and GGS) under one operating entity.
	www.gswrr.com /pages/950547 (884 words)

	Augusta Museum of History - Exhibitions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		This new company was tasked with building a route from Augusta west into the interior of the state by construction of a railroad.
		The company charter was accepted in 1834 and amended in 1835 to grant bank privileges.
		Among the many artifacts chronicling the company’s 153-year history are a locomotive bell, railroad maps, stock books and the mail contract with the Confederate government.
	www.augustamuseum.org /exhibitions.htm (299 words)

	Blogospherical Ruminations: What Wachovia Corp. apologized for:
		Wachovia acquired First Union Bank in 2001, which in turn had acquired First Railroad & Banking Corp. (1986), which had acquired Georgia Railroad Bank and Trust Co. (1954), which had acquired Georgia Railroad Bank (1929), which had acquired Georgia Railroad and Banking Company (1835), which had acquired the Georgia Railroad Company.
		Georgia Railroad was organized in 1833 to lay tracks from Augusta into the interior of Georgia, and Georgia Railroad had once purchased a slave flsmith.
		Another acquisition in Wachovia's gene pool was the Bank of Charleston, which during the three decades before the War Between the States had accepted title to "up to 529 slaves" as collateral for loans.
	wudndux.blogspot.com /2005/06/what-wachovia-corp-apologized-for.html (699 words)

	Georgia Railroad
		The Georgia Railroad and Banking Company had made early investments in the Atlanta and West Point Railroad and the Western Railway of Alabama which together connected Atlanta and Montgomery.
		In 1881, the Georgia Railroad was leased for 99 years to Colonel William M. Wadley, president of the Central of Georgia Railway.
		Wadley assigned the lease jointly to the Louisville and Nashville and the Central of Georgia.
	www.railga.com /georgia.html (727 words)

	Moving from Slavery to Diversity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Records show the Georgia bank owned at least 162 slaves and the Bank of Charleston accepted at least 529 slaves as collateral on mortgages.
		Bank employees, customers and the community at large do not miss the cultural message sent about whom the bank values.
		Banks that are engaged in changing the composition of local advisory boards are also changing the culture of their institutions.
	www.cra-nc.org /moving_from_slavery_heraldsun.htm (538 words)

	Trees & Landscaping - Pendleton King Park History
		In 1835, the Georgia Railroad was begun to connect Augusta with Atlanta, via Madison, with a branch line to Athens.
		The country was in a state of financial depression, affecting both railroads and banks, because of war, inflation, and worthless currency.
		She was instrumental in the establishment of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Georgia and for the Augusta Humane Society.
	www.augustaga.gov /departments/trees_landscaping/pendleton_history.asp (3806 words)

	Wachovia Announces National Partnerships in Support of African Americans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Through specific transactional records, researchers determined that the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company owned at least 162 slaves, and the Bank of Charleston accepted at least 529 slaves as collateral on mortgaged properties or loans, and acquired an undetermined number of these individuals when customers defaulted on their loans.
		The Georgia Railroad and Banking Company was founded in 1833 to complete a railroad line between the City of Augusta and the interior of the state of Georgia.
		According to the existing and searchable bank records, 162 slaves were owned or authorized to be purchased by the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company between 1836 and 1842.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1454067/posts (2168 words)

	GeorgiaInfo - Carl Vinson Institute of Government
		Built in 1834-1835 by James Camak, university math professor and builder of the Georgia Railroad, this house was the first to be constructed in the Prince Avenue area.
		After the incorporation and chartering of the Georgia Railroad in 1833, a stockholders meeting took place at the Camak House in 1834.
		When the Branch Bank of the State of Georgia was established in 1834, he became its director.
	www.cviog.uga.edu /Projects/gainfo/Camak_House.htm (342 words)

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		In October of 18235 he was appointed Adjucant of the Squadron of Cavalry known as the Georgia Hussars by Maj. Macpherson Berrien of the 1st Division Georgia Militia.
		In December 1833, the Georgia Legislature granted a charter tin:\rquote the Central of Georgia Railroad and Canal Company, \ldblquote "for the purpose of laying building, and making railroad arid canal communications from the city of Savannah to the interior of Georgia.
		He was elected to the Georgia Senate in October of 1840, 80 and was also\rquote chosen as an Alderman of Savannah upon the resign at ions of Alderman Waring and Alderman McAllister.
	www.sip.armstrong.edu /warlick/gordon.rtf (3827 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		King participated in the formation of the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company in 1836.
		After serving on the board, and facing the Company's financial failure, he was entrusted with the financial negotiations with northern banks to strengthen the Company and to enable the railroad to be completed.
		He was elected president in 1841 and oversaw the completion of the railroad from Augusta to the terminus of the Western and Atlantic Railroad.
	www.hts.gatech.edu /south/bios/king.htm (192 words)

	Wachovia apologizes to black Americans - U.S. Business - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Charlotte-based company said it contracted earlier this year with The History Factory, a historical research firm, to investigate the predecessor institutions that over the years have become part of what is now called Wachovia.
		The bank said incomplete records make it impossible to know how many slaves were owned by either institution, but that specific transactional records show the Georgia bank owned at least 162 slaves and the Bank of Charleston accepted at least 529 slaves as collateral on mortgaged properties or loans.
		The New York-based bank made the disclosure in a filing with the city of Chicago, which two years ago passed an ordinance requiring companies that do business with the city to research their history to determine any links to slavery.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6448213/did/8076165 (874 words)

	Tolerance.org: Wachovia Apologizes for Slave History
		The Charlotte-based Wachovia Corp. disclosed in a statement that two of the company's ancestral banks — the Bank of Charleston and the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company — owned slaves and accepted slaves as collateral for loans.
		The company began digging into its past earlier this year, when it partnered with the Chicago Housing Authority on an affordable housing project.
		In addition to Wachovia's apology, the company is planning to increase partnerships with community organizations and promote awareness of fl history.
	www.tolerance.org /news/article_tol.jsp?id=1225 (686 words)

	South's Participation in the Transportation Revolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The two explanations for southern railroad rule is the economic development of the South did not need a more complex system, and the South lacked capital to improve its lines up to the Northern level.
		I believe these records will show me how much money was put into the building of railroads, where they were build, how many people made up the entire company, how many people they paid to build the railroad, and how much flack they received for building the railroad.
		I could use this poster to show another side of the railroad fight all around the country, because I believe that if the North through a fit about the railroads, I’m sure there were some people that did the same.
	www.arches.uga.edu /~mgagnon/students/400005SU/Usher.htm (1225 words)

	CrabStateRails - CSX In Maryland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Virginia Central was given rights to the use of this railroad, and the first train entered the Valley of Virginia on April 1, 1854.
		This company succeeded to the rights, interests and privileges of both the Virginia Central and the Covington and Ohio Railroads.
		1880: The properties of the James River and Kanawha Company, a canal enterprise, were acquired by the Richmond and Alleghany Railroad, and the canal towpath was used to build a railroad from Richmond to Clifton Forge, Va. The James River Company, an earlier canal enterprise, was organized in August 1785.
	www.crabstaterails.com /CSX.htm (1526 words)

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