- Collection:
- Georgia Historical Markers
- Title:
- Railroad Street Commerce historical marker
- Creator:
- Seibert, David, 1941-2020
- Date of Original:
- 1996/2014
- Subject:
- Historical markers--Georgia--Morgan County
Cities and towns--Georgia--Madison
Streets--Georgia--Madison - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Morgan County, Madison, 33.59568, -83.46794
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Location: Jefferson St. at Second St., Madison
Text of marker: "RAILROAD STREET COMMERCE. Early town development focused upon the town square, but that changed when cotton and railroads grew in importance. In 1837, Georgia Rail Road construction was announced, and rail service arrived four years later in Madison - the end point until rail was extended west to Terminus (aka Marthasville/Atlanta). In the 1880s, north/south lines of the Covington & Macon (later Central of GA) Rail Road augmented the east-west service. Anchored at one end by two depots - Georgia RR brick depot (1840, burned 1864; rebuilt) and Central of GA railroad frame depot (c. 1901-09) - and at the other end by the town square, Railroad Street (W. Jefferson) rose quickly as a commercial corridor, lined with storefronts, lodging houses, saloons, warehouses and workshops, all supported by "King Cotton." For nearly 100 years, this corridor remained vibrant and vital, its importance reinforced by civic improvements, as in 1883 when the City was praised for "...macadamizing and grading Railroad Street...the most traveled street," and also in 1891 with the installation of a "Whiteway," using decorative iron and glass globe streetlights to illuminate the way downtown. CITY OF MADISON MADISON BICENTENNIAL COMMISSION 1809-2009 A PRESERVE AMERICA COMMUNITY" - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_ghm_railroad-street-commerce
- Digital Object URL:
- http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_ghm_railroad-street-commerce
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- Copyright held by David Seibert. Please contact markers@davidseibert.com about commercial reproduction and use
- Holding Institution:
- Digital Library of Georgia
- Rights:
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