Pulaski County GaArchives History .....Hawkinsville Railroads 1935
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RAILROADS

   In 1868 the Macon and Brunswick Railroad, an extension of the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia, now the Southern, was built into Hawkinsville. In 1902
came the Oconee and Western, now the Wrightsville and Tennille, a short line
from Hawkinsville to Tennille connecting with the Central of Georgia and Augusta
Southern at Tennille. During the nineties the Hawkinsville and Florida Southern,
connecting with the Georgia Southern, now the Southern, at Worth, was completed,
opening up a fine farming and timber section in Wilcox and Worth Counties. Later
the Hawkinsville and Western, linking this section by rail with Houston and Bibb
Counties, was opened for traffic. This road gave us another direct route to
Macon via Perry and Fort Valley. Only the Southern and the Wrightsville and
Tennille remain, the Hawkinsville and Florida Southern and Hawkinsville and
Western have long since been "junked." Served always by branch and short line
railways, and with the junking of two of the short lines, and the constant
threat that others would follow, the city can now dispel all fears, for our
paved and improved highways have solved our every. transportation need. Trucks
for freight, and now a super de luxe bus service with two double daily through
services from Cincinnati to Jacksonville, and a convenient local schedule
between Eastman and Macon.


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"HISTORY OF PULASKI COUNTY GEORGIA"

OFFICIAL HISTORY

COMPILED BY THE HAWKINSVILLE CHAPTER
DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
PRESS OF WALTER W. BROWN PUBLISHING COMPANY
ATLANTA, GEORGIA

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