Rails Through the Wiregrass

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The Georgia & Florida Railroad began with bright promise, but like many other enterprises in the early twentieth-century South, it experienced hard times. The s

Railroading Around Dothan and the Wiregrass Region

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The Wiregrass Region of southeast Alabama, southwest Georgia, and north Florida--named for the perennial grass that covered the long-leaf pine forest floor--is

Southern Railroad Man

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Nimrod J. Bell worked as a conductor for several southern railroads in their formative period, from 1857 to 1894. After his career was cut short by an accident,

Twilight Rails

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By the start of the twentieth century railroads crisscrossed the nation, yet there were still those who believed that the railroad network in the United States

The New South Comes to Wiregrass Georgia, 1860-1910

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This examination of cultural change challenges the conventional view of the Georgia Pine Belt as an unchanging economic backwater. Its postbellum economy evolve