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In 1837, the State of Georgia hired Col. Stephen H. Long of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to survey the best route for the Western and Atlantic Railroad from Zero Mile Post (now in Underground ...

The excursionists from New-York on their way to Cleveland to celebrate the formal opening of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway to that city, reached this point at 8 o'clock this morning.

Thomas Sparks Lowe first spied out the beautiful Chattanooga country when he was sent here in 1845 to help superintend the completion of the Western and Atlantic Railroad into town.

It was 1837 when engineers for the Western and Atlantic Railroad placed a stone marker on a point roughly miles seven east of the Chattahoochee River, to mark the southern end of a rail line ...

The ceremony that marked the completion of the Western and Atlantic Railroad occurred on Dec. 1, 1849 -- the day the first locomotive arrived in Chattanooga from Atlanta.