Elbert County GaArchives Indenture between Mary A. Hall
and Elberton Airline Railway
7 June 1873
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The following deed is shown in Elbert Co. Deed Book
EE, page 792: 

"State of Georgia, Elbert County: In consideration of the benefit
and advantage to Mary A. Hall accruing by the construction of the
Elberton Airline Railway as well as the receipt of five dollars,
to me paid, I have this day bargained and sold, and do hereby 
transfer and convey unto the Elberton Airline Railway Company 
and it's successors and assigns, all the land contained within
one hundred feet in width, on each side of the track or roadway,
measuring from the center of any portion of the lot of land
hereinafter described, through wich said Railroad may be 
constructed, run and operated. The land hereby conveyed being 
cut off and a portion of the tract on which I now live lying
and being in Elbert County, State of Georgia, and the said 
Mary A. Hall for herself, her heirs, executors and administrators
the said Railway Company, will warrant and forever defend the 
right and title thereof against themselves and against the 
claims of all other persons whatever. To have and to hold said
tract or parcel ofland unto said Elberton Airline Railway Company,
for railroad purposes forever, in fee simple. Witness my hand
and seal, this the 7th day of June A.D. 1873. Signed, sealed and
delivered in presence of Asa C. Maley, A. J. Bond, J.P.
                          Signed: Mary A. Hall    seal"
Recorded June 29, 1878

[Submitter's notes: The right of way conveyed was located at
Goss, Elbert Co. and as of 2004 the railroad track constructed
can be seen adjacent to State Highway 17 between Elberton and
Dewy Rose, GA]