History of Atlanta Georgia Author:Wallace Putnam Reed Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: the officers of the road. This building was removed years ago, but it is still standing on Peter's street, facing the side of Trinity Church. The railroad work b... more »rought gangs of laborers, but no settlers. Up to this time the outlook was not promising. Mr. Thrasher, although he had no competition in business, lost faith in the place and moved to Griffin, and others made their way to Decatur and Marietta. In 1842 the first child was born in "Terminus." The father was Mr. W. Carlisle, and the child, a daughter, still resides here as as the wife of Mr. W. S. Withers. If there was little progress in population, the community was nevertheless advancing in other respects. The State road needed an engine to run between Atlanta and Marietta, and the first one ever seen by the inhabitants of " Terminus," was shipped from Madison. There was then no railroad from that town, and the engine, with great labor, was placed on the stoutest wagon that could be constructed. It was then drawn all the way, some sixty miles, by sixteen mules. For the first time in our history a crowd gathered here, but it was composed of several hundred residents of Decatur and the surrounding country who came here to do honor to the occasion. As soon as a box car could be procured from Milledgeville, the engine and car made a trip to Marietta on December 24, 1842. Mr. W. F. Adair, the engineer, is now, or was a short time since, residing at New Holland Springs. Two years later the situation had changed but little. Mr. Jonathan Nor- cross arrived in 1844. He found here at the time Major Stephen Terry, James Collins, William Kile, sr., William Crawford, Joseph Thomason, A. B. Forsyth, Hardy Ivy, Harrison Briant and Messrs. Dunn and Gill. In a short time Dr. George G. Smith and James Loyd moved to the settlement. Th...« less