Alabama and Tennessee River Rail Road Company was incorporated under act of

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on March 4, 1848.Interstate Commerce Commission. ''Southern Ry. Co.'', Volume 37, Interstate Commerce Commission Valuation Reports, November 6, 1931, p. 213. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1932. . With John Anderson Dilliard being principal shareholder. J. A. Dilliard a LaGrange, Tennessee, native originally from Decatur, AL was also a principal owner in the Lagrange and Memphis Railroad which became the Memphis and Charleston Railroad, along with Joseph Dilliard and H.B. Dilliard. Alabama and Tennessee River Railroad Company constructed of railroad line between Selma, Alabama and

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, including part of an extension of about of line from Blue Mountain toward Dalton, Georgia, in 1862.ICC, ''Southern Ry. Co.'' valuation report, 1931, p. 220. A. D. Breed operated the line under lease From the Union Railroad Trust between May 31, 1866, and August 8, 1866, in accordance with a contract to rehabilitate the railroad line and construct the extension dated May 25, 1866.ICC, ''Southern Ry. Co.'' valuation report, 1931, p. 599. After the

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became president of the Alabama and Tennessee River Rail Road Company from May 1866 to November 1867. During Johnston's tenure, on August 6, 1866, Alabama and Tennessee River Rail Road Company consolidated with Georgia and Alabama Rail Road Company and Dalton and Jacksonville Railroad Company to form the Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad Company. The consolidation agreement was ratified by the Georgia General Assembly on December 13, 1866, and by the Alabama Legislature on February 8, 1867. The Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad Company constructed or reconstructed of railroad line between

and

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, in 1870. The rehabilitation of the property after the

and the construction of the extension of the line between Blue Mountain and Dalton was funded mainly by the sale of consolidated first-mortgage seven per cent bonds and second-mortgage seven per cent bonds. The railroad in

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was sold in foreclosure on November 3, 1874, and conveyed to

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Company on March 29, 1876. The Georgia Southern Railroad Company was sold to

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Company on November 6, 1880. The railroad in Alabama was sold at foreclosure on June 14, 1880, and sold to East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad Company on February 5 and 11, 1881. East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad Company went into receivership on January 7, 1885, was sold in foreclosure on May 25, 1886, and conveyed to

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Company on June 30, 1886. The property eventually became part of Southern Railway Company on July 7, 1894, through its acquisition of the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway Company.ICC, ''Southern Ry. Co.'' valuation report, 1931, pp. 212, 571.

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* Interstate Commerce Commission. ''Southern Ry. Co.'', Volume 37, Interstate Commerce Commission Valuation Reports, November 6, 1931. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1932. . * Symonds, Craig L. ''Joseph E. Johnston: A Civil War Biography''. New York: W. W. Norton, 1992. . {{DEFAULTSORT:Alabama and Tennessee River Railroad Defunct Alabama railroads Predecessors of the Southern Railway (U.S.) Railway companies established in 1848 Railway companies disestablished in 1866 5 ft gauge railways in the United States 1848 establishments in Alabama American companies established in 1848 American companies disestablished in 1866

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