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unusual facts about Western and Atlantic Railroad


Joseph E. Brown

After the war, Brown was briefly held as a political prisoner in Washington, D.C. He was chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia from 1865 to 1870, when he resigned to become president of the Western and Atlantic Railroad.


Alexander St. Clair-Abrams

But back in 1872, Abrams maintained a feud with former governor Joseph E. Brown, denouncing the policy of the state leasing the Western and Atlantic Railroad and associated business deals with free rides but was pressured to relinquish control of the paper with a threatened foreclosure of a $5,000 mortgage by Citizens Bank unless he ceased the attacks on Brown.

Georgia State Route 293

From its southern terminus north to Kingston, it parallels the Western and Atlantic Railroad, which was used as a corridor for the Atlanta Campaign during the Civil War and made famous by the Andrews Raid, also known as the "Great Locomotive Chase".


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