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Timeline Of Mass Transit In Atlanta
Timeline of mass transit in Atlanta: *1871 Richard Peters and George Adair run the first streetcars on the Atlanta Street Railway Company *1872 West End & Atlanta Street Railroad Company formed *1878 Adair sells out to Peters *1879 Gate City Street Railroad Company formed *1882 Metropolitan Street Railroad Company formed *1883 Fulton County Street Railroad Company formed *1886 Joel Hurt forms the Atlanta & Edgewood Street Railroad Co. *1889 Hurt's streetcar begins to run between Five Points and Inman Park and control of Peter's company passed to son Edward C. Peters; Fulton County Street RR Co. begins powered by the electric Thomson-Houston system. *1890 Atlanta, West End & McPherson Barracks Ry. Co. begins powered by the electric Sprague system *1891 (May) Atlanta Consolidated Street Railway Company formed instigating the " Second Battle of Atlanta" *1892 Atlanta City Street Railway Co. begins powered by the electric Detroit system Carson, O.E., ''The Trolley Titans'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Peters (Atlanta)
Richard Peters (November 10, 1810 – February 6, 1889) was an American railroad man and a founder of Atlanta, Georgia, in the 1840s. Early life Peters was born on November 10, 1810, near Philadelphia at Germantown, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Ralph Peters (1777–1842) and Catherine (Conyngham) Peters (1786–1839). His paternal grandfather was Judge Richard Peters Jr. (an associate of George Washington). Career The young Peters was educated in Philadelphia. He worked with the architect William Strickland and as a rodman (surveyor) with John Edgar Thomson for $1.50 a day. Thomson liked the 26-year-old's work and in late 1834 offered him a job as chief engineer for $1,000 a year to help with construction of the new Georgia Railroad. Peters paid $100 for a rough paddlewheeler trip into camp near Charleston, South Carolina, in the brutally cold February 1835. He worked on the state railroad for the eight years it took to complete it from Augusta, to the new town of Mart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlanta Transit Strike Of 1916
Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the seat of Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia, but its territory falls in both Fulton and DeKalb counties. With a population of 498,715 living within the city limits, it is the eighth most populous city in the Southeast and 38th most populous city in the United States according to the 2020 U.S. census. It is the core of the much larger Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to more than 6.1 million people, making it the eighth-largest metropolitan area in the United States. Situated among the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains at an elevation of just over above sea level, it features unique topography that includes rolling hills, lush greenery, and the most dense urban tree coverage of any major city in the United States. Atlanta was originally founded as the terminus of a major state-sponsored railroad, but it soon became the convergence point among several railro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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