- Collection:
- Vanishing Georgia
- Title:
- [Photograph of a view down Main Street, Dacula, Gwinnett County, Georgia, 1905]
- Date of Original:
- 1905
- Subject:
- Railroad stations--Georgia--Dacula
Cotton--Georgia--Dacula
Business--Georgia--Dacula
Cities and towns--Georgia--Dacula
Transportation--Georgia--Dacula - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Gwinnett County, Dacula, 33.98872, -83.89796
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Dacula, 1905. Downtown Main Street. Seaboard Railroad occupied the buildings at right to ship cotton and other commodities.
2003/06/19: The Seaboard Air Line Railroad became one of the most progressive railroads in the country just before and during World War II. While the name 'Air Line' referred to the many stretches of tangent or straight track in parts of the Carolinas and in Florida, including the longest straight track in the United States between Wilmington and Hamlet, North Carolina, more than half of it's Richmond, Virginia to Miami main line ran through the rough piedmont hills of Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina. It was hilly and full of curves that restricted speed. The line was single-track with passing sidings. Arch-rival Atlantic Coast Line was blessed with a level, fast double-track main line between Richmond Virginia and Jacksonville, Florida.
The Seaboard main ran from Richmond Va. thru Raleigh, NC where the branch from Portsmouth, VA joined (at Norlina), to Hamlet, NC - branching to Wilmington and Charlotte, NC. A line went west to Atlanta, GA and Birmingham, AL. The main line continued south thru Columbia, SC, to Savannah, GA, Jacksonville, FL, and the obscure town of Wildwood, FL where the line to Tampa, St. Petersburg FL and the racetrack to West Palm Beach and Miami split. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_vang_gwn124
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/vang/do:gwn124
- Additional Rights Information:
- Held by Georgia Archives, 5800 Jonesboro Road, Morrow, GA 30260.
Contact repository re: reproduction and usage. - Holding Institution:
- Georgia Archives
- Rights:
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