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The Tifton and Northeastern Railroad was a railroad running from Tifton, Georgia northeast to Fitzgerald, Georgia, a distance of 25 miles. It was built in the late 1800s and it later became part of the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railway and Atlantic Coast Line Railroad networks.
The Tifton, Thomasville and Gulf Railway (TT&G) was a railway that operated from Tifton, Georgia southwest to Thomasville, Georgia in the early 1900s. It later became part of the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railway and Atlantic Coast Line Railroad networks.
Child workers at Tifton Cotton Mills, 1909. Photographed by Lewis Hine.. Tifton was founded in 1872 in Berrien County at the junction of the Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad and the Brunswick and Western Railroad by sawmill owner Henry H. Tift. Tifton was incorporated as a city in 1890. [5]
Augusta, Tallahassee and Gulf Railroad: Tifton and Moultrie Railway: 1903 N/A Tifton and Northeastern Railroad: ACL: 1891 1903 Atlantic and Birmingham Railway: Tifton Terminal Company: Tifton, Thomasville and Gulf Railway: ACL: 1897 1903 Atlantic and Birmingham Railway: Union Point and White Plains Railroad: ACL/ L&N: 1886 1927 N/A Upson County ...
Tifton Commercial Historic District, in Tifton in Tift County, Georgia, is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1986 and expanded in 1994. The original listing was portions of 10 blocks including buildings from the 1890s to the late 1930s, most built of brick.
The Waycross Air Line Railroad, chartered in 1887, was an air-line railroad in Georgia.It began operations between Waycross and Sessoms in 1890. In 1901, the railroad had extended as far as Fitzgerald, Georgia, at which time its charter was amended for an extension to Birmingham, Alabama, and it was renamed the Atlantic and Birmingham Railroad.
The county was created on August 17, 1905, and is named for Henry Harding Tift, who founded Tifton in 1872.Tift purchased about 65,000 acres of virgin pine timberland there in the Wiregrass Region of South Georgia, and established a sawmill and a village for his workers.
GA-47: Broad River Highway Bridge Replaced Reinforced concrete open-spandrel arch: 1935 1982 SR 72: Broad River: Carlton: Madison: GA-48: Tifton Bridge Demolished Parker truss: 1935 1983 US 82 / SR 50: Seaboard Coast Line Railroad: Tifton: Tift