{"product_id":"rails-through-the-wiregrass-a-history-of-the-georgia-38-florida-railroad-hardback-9780875803654","title":"Rails Through the Wiregrass; A History of the Georgia \u0026#38; Florida Railroad (Hardback) 9780875803654","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRails Through the Wiregrass\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA History of the Georgia \u0026amp; Florida Railroad\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eH. Roger Grant (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780875803654\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 10 October 2006\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e239 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eA meticulous account of a long-neglected railroad by one of the nation's best-known railroad historians.\u003c\/p\u003e - Maury Klein, University of Rhode Island \u003cp\u003eThe most thorough study on this fascinating railroad.\u003c\/p\u003e - Robert H. Hanson, author of \u003ci\u003eHistory of the Georgia Railroad\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe West Point Route\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs always with Grant's railroad histories, research was thorough.\u003c\/p\u003e (Journal of Southern History)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Georgia \u0026amp; Florida Railroad began with bright promise, but like many other enterprises in the early twentieth-century South, it experienced hard times. The story begins in 1906, when—responding to a perceived need for better connections to northern markets—a group of entrepreneurs led by prominent Virginia banker John Skelton Williams began to cobble together logging short lines to create more than 350 miles of railroad connecting Augusta, Georgia, with Madison, Florida.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAt first the G\u0026amp;F triggered growth in its region as several new towns sprang up or expanded along its lines. By 1915, however, the economic dislocations caused by World War I threw the G\u0026amp;F into receivership, and a few years later the G\u0026amp;F came close to dismemberment. Fortunately, shippers and investors rallied to the railroad's cause, and business conditions improved. In 1926 the road was reorganized and, under pressure to \"expand or die,\" built to Greenwood, South Carolina.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Great Depression forced the G\u0026amp;F into bankruptcy, and after its record-length receivership, it was acquired by the Southern Railway in 1963. When the Southern Railway dissolved the corporation and abandoned much of the former trackage, the G\u0026amp;F became the \"Gone \u0026amp; Forgotten.\" Yet in its 57-year lifespan the G\u0026amp;F did much to bring about agricultural diversification and relative prosperity in the wiregrass region of southern Georgia and northern Florida.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOffering insights on social and economic conditions in the South from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, Grant's study of this obscure yet noteworthy railroad will appeal to those interested in transportation, business, railroad, and Southern regional history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eTable of Contents\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Railroad Company Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e 1: Before the G\u0026amp;F\u003cbr\u003e 2: The G\u0026amp;F Emerges, 1906–1910\u003cbr\u003e 3: Established at Last, 1911–1925\u003cbr\u003e 4: \"Expand or Die,\" 1926–1930\u003cbr\u003e 5: Developing the Wiregrass Region\u003cbr\u003e 6: Depression, War and Continued Challenges, 1931–1948\u003cbr\u003e 7: The Final Years, 1949–1963\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Northern Illinois University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52584752840984,"sku":"9780875803654","price":29.57,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/rails-through-the-wiregrass-a-history-of-the-georgia-38-florida-railroad-hardback-9780875803654","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}