The Gate City Street Railroad Company of Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia. According to the 2010 census, Atlanta's population is 420,003. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to 5,268,860 people and is the ninth largest metropolitan area in...

 was organized in 1881 by Laurent DeGive

Laurent DeGive

Laurent DeGive was the Belgian consul in Atlanta, Georgia in the late 1800s. He arrived in Atlanta in 1859...

 (Belgian consul and opera house owner), Levi B. Nelson

Levi B. Nelson

Levi Buell Nelson , was an Atlanta, Georgia city councilman, founder of the Gate City Street Railroad Company....

 (city councilman), Capt. Augustus M. Reinhardt

Augustus M. Reinhardt

Captain Augustus M. Reinhardt was the namesake of Reinhardt University in Waleska, Georgia and a founder of Atlanta's Gate City Street Railroad Company. He was a Confederate war veteran, and had been a lawyer, city councilman and mayor pro tem....

 (namesake of Reinhardt University) and John Stephens. In 1884 they built a line which started at the Kimball House

Kimball House

The Kimball House was the name of two historical hotels in Atlanta, Georgia. Both were constructed on an entire city block at the south-southeast corner of Five Points, bounded by Whitehall Street , Decatur Street, Pryor Street, and Wall Street.-First Kimball House:-Design and construction:In 1870...

 and went via Pryor, Wheat and Jackson Streets to Ponce de Leon Springs

Ponce de Leon Springs

Ponce de Leon Springs can refer to:* Ponce de Leon Springs , former springs in Atlanta, Georgia* Ponce de Leon Springs State Park, a park in the Florida panhandle...

. The line operated until January 1887, when it was sold.

See also

• Streetcars in Atlanta
  Streetcars in Atlanta
  Streetcars operated in Atlanta starting with horsecars in 1871; electric streetcar service started in the 1880s. The last streetcar service ended in 1949; the streetcar system was quickly replaced by a trolleybus system and with buses...
  
  
• Timeline of mass transit in Atlanta
  Timeline of mass transit in Atlanta
  Timeline of mass transit in Atlanta:*1871 Richard Peters and George Adair run the first streetcars on the Atlanta Street Railway Company*1872 West End & Atlanta Street Railroad Company formed*1878 Adair sells out to Peters...