TheGeorgia Pacific Railway was arailway company chartered on December 31, 1881, consolidating the Georgia Western Railroad and the Georgia Pacific Railroad Company of Alabama.
The Georgia Western Railroad was chartered by theGeorgia Legislature in 1854, incorporated byRichard Peters,Lemuel Grant, and other prominent Atlantans. Its mission was to connectAtlanta viaVilla Rica orCarrollton with destinations to the southwest in the direction ofAlabama, specificallyJacksonville orTuscaloosa.[1] However, the Georgia Western was never built.
After consolidation, construction between 1882 and 1889 allowed the Georgia Pacific to connectAtlanta, Georgia, andGreenville, Mississippi. According toGeorgia's Railroad History and Heritage, "the railroad opened between Atlanta and Birmingham in November, 1883; between Birmingham and Columbus, MS, in 1887; and between Columbus and the Mississippi River in 1889."[2]
The Georgia Pacific was bought and absorbed by theSouthern Railway in 1894.[2][3] The Southern Railway was merged into theNorfolk Southern Railway in 1982.
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