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The Old Augusta Railroad (reporting mark OAR) is a 2.5-mile long (4.0 km) shortline railroad that runs from the Georgia-Pacific Leaf River Cellulose pulp mill near the Old Augusta Historic Site in New Augusta, Mississippi to an interchange with the Canadian National Railway (CN) between Mahned, Mississippi and New Augusta. [1]
When the Mobile, Jackson, and Kansas City Railroad [9] was constructed 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Augusta, the town was moved to the railroad and developed as New Augusta. In 1983, Georgia-Pacific constructed the Old Augusta Railroad to haul products from the Leaf River Cellulose mill that was built adjacent to the site of Old Augusta. [10]
Georgia-Pacific lumber mill in Eureka, California (May 1972). Georgia-Pacific was founded by Owen Robertson Cheatham on September 22, 1927 in Augusta, Georgia, as the Georgia Hardwood Lumber Co. [5] He started the company through the acquisition of a wholesale hardwood
Mississippi Tennessee Railroad MTNR 2003 2011 Ripley and New Albany Railroad: Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad: IC: 1852 1889 Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad: Mississippi Valley Company: IC: 1872 1945 Illinois Central Railroad: Mississippi Valley and Ship Island Railroad: IC: 1873 1883 New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Vicksburg and ...
After consolidation, construction between 1882 and 1889 allowed the Georgia Pacific to connect Atlanta, Georgia, and Greenville, Mississippi. [2] Regular service to Atlanta began May 15, 1882, and the road to Birmingham, Alabama, was completed in November 1883. The company was a predecessor of the Southern Railway, which absorbed it after 1894. [2]
Georgia Pacific, a multi-billion dollar subsidiary of Koch Industries, announced in September it would lay off more than 500 workers who had earned doubled the state’s median income of $35,216 ...
The Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire is named in his honor. [9] Cheatham Grove, a stand of old growth Redwood trees in California's Grizzly Creek Redwoods State Park, is named for him. The land, part of Georgia Pacific's larger timber holdings in the area, was donated to the state by Owen Cheatham ...
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