The Camp Creek Train Crash of 1900: In Atlanta or In Hell - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Camp Creek Train Crash of 1900: In Atlanta or In Hell write by Jeffery C. Wells. This book was released on 2009-11-24. The Camp Creek Train Crash of 1900: In Atlanta or In Hell available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On June 23, 1900, the Southern Railroad Company's Engine #7 and its passengers were greeted by a tremendous storm en route to Atlanta, Georgia. Stalled for some time in nearby McDonough, travelers grew impatient as rain pelted the roof and wind buffeted the cars. When finally given the go-ahead, their resulting joy was short-lived: the locomotive soon reached Camp Creek--and disaster. After weeks of constant showers, the swollen creek had eroded the bridge supports. Under the train's weight, the bridge collapsed, and all but nine perished in either the fiery fall or watery depths. With the help of local newspapers and eyewitness accounts, Georgia historian and professor Jeffery C. Wells recounts this tragic tale.
In Atlanta Or in Hell: The Camp Creek Train Crash of 1900
In Atlanta Or in Hell: The Camp Creek Train Crash of 1900 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Atlanta Or in Hell: The Camp Creek Train Crash of 1900 write by Jeffery C. Wells. This book was released on 2009-09. In Atlanta Or in Hell: The Camp Creek Train Crash of 1900 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On June 23, 1900, the Southern Railroad Company's Engine #7 and its passengers were greeted by a tremendous storm en route to Atlanta, Georgia. Stalled for some time in nearby McDonough, travelers grew impatient as rain pelted the roof and wind buffeted the cars. When finally given the go-ahead, their resulting joy was short-lived: the locomotive soon reached Camp Creek--and disaster. After weeks of constant showers, the swollen creek had eroded the bridge supports. Under the train's weight, the bridge collapsed, and all but nine perished in either the fiery fall or watery depths. With the help of local newspapers and eyewitness accounts, Georgia historian and professor Jeffery C. Wells recounts this tragic tale.
The Atlanta Ripper
The Atlanta Ripper - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Atlanta Ripper write by Jeffery Wells. This book was released on 2010-09-24. The Atlanta Ripper available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An examination of the unsolved mystery of the Jack the Ripper-style serial killer who terrified early 20th century Atlanta, Georgia. As Atlanta finished rebuilding after the Civil War, a new horror arose from the ashes to roam the night streets. Beginning in 1911, a killer whose methods mimicked the famed Jack the Ripper murdered at least twenty black women, from prostitutes to working-class women and mothers. Each murder attributed to the killer occurred on a Saturday night, and for one terrifying spring in 1911, a fresh body turned up every Sunday morning. Amid a stifling investigation, slayings continued until 1915. As many as six men were arrested for the crimes, but investigators never discovered the identity of the killer, or killers, despite having several suspects in custody. Join local historian Jeffery Wells as he reveals the case of the Atlanta Ripper, unsolved to this day.
Mysterious Georgia
Mysterious Georgia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mysterious Georgia write by Sherman Carmichael. This book was released on 2021-08-23. Mysterious Georgia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A plunge into Georgia history offers no shortage of bewilderment. UFOs, haunted bridges, ghost lights and monsters are just a smattering of the unexplained. At the Jekyll Island Club, a bellhop from the Roaring Twenties does his best to stay busy. A bright golden light hovers above the tracks of Macon and Brunswick Railroad, floating toward spectators before it just...turns off. From the obligatory mountain road 'Squatch sightings to Jimmy Carter's eerie encounter in a stand of Leary pines, Sherman Carmichael leads adventurous readers on a quest through baffling Georgia legends.
Atlanta and Environs
Atlanta and Environs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Atlanta and Environs write by Franklin M. Garrett. This book was released on 2011-03-01. Atlanta and Environs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Atlanta and Environs is, in every way, an exhaustive history of the Atlanta Area from the time of its settlement in the 1820s through the 1970s. Volumes I and II, together more than two thousand pages in length, represent a quarter century of research by their author, Franklin M. Garrett—a man called “a walking encyclopedia on Atlanta history” by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. With the publication of Volume III, by Harold H. Martin, this chronicle of the South’s most vibrant city incorporates the spectacular growth and enterprise that have characterized Atlanta in recent decades. The work is arranged chronologically, with a section devoted to each decade, a chapter to each year. Volume I covers the history of Atlanta and its people up to 1880—ranging from the city’s founding as “Terminus” through its Civil War destruction and subsequent phoenixlike rebirth. Volume II details Atlanta’s development from 1880 through the 1930s—including occurrences of such diversity as the development of the Coca-Cola Company and the Atlanta premiere of Gone with the Wind. Taking up the city’s fortunes in the 1940s, Volume III spans the years of Atlanta’s greatest growth. Tracing the rise of new building on the downtown skyline and the construction of Hartsfield International Airport on the city’s perimeter, covering the politics at City Hall and the box scores of Atlanta’s new baseball team, recounting the changing terms of race relations and the city’s growing support of the arts, the last volume of Atlanta and Environs documents the maturation of the South’s preeminent city.
