1. EXPANSION & REMOVAL TRANSPORTATION

2. WATERWAYS Savannah River – most important
Rivers – North to South paths
Trading cities developed on rivers
Milledgeville on Oconee
Macon on Ocumulgee
Augusta on Savannah
Columbus on Chattahoochee

3. ROADS 1775 First Road Law—men, ages 16-60, had to help maintain roads
Many early roads followed old Native American trials (why they aren’t a grid; they twist & turn)
Roads – run east to west connecting rivers
Turnpikes – private roads built & maintained by a company
Travelers paid tolls to travel on these roads

4. RAILROADS 1830 First locomotive service – Charleston, SC
1883 GA General Assembly approved 2 companies to build railroads
GA RR Co – west from Augusta to Madison, Eatonton, & Athens (reached Athens 1841)
Central of GA RR – Savannah to Macon (reached Macon 1843)

5. RAILROADS CON’T
Western & Atlantic (W&A) RR connected Augusta, Macon, Milledgeville & Columbus
RR end = Terminus, later Marthasville
1847 Marthasville grew – over 400 people
Name not appropriate for RR center….changed to Atlanta after Western & Atlantic
W&A connected Atlanta to Chattanooga
1853 Atlanta & West Point RR linked Georgia’s RR system to Alabama