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In his early twenties Edgar Thomson moved from Philadelphia to Georgia to become the Chief Engineer of the newly-formed Georgia Rail Road. Thomson was in complete control of the building of the railroad from Augusta to Terminus, soon to be Atlanta. Ninety-five percent of this book is fact, with the other five percent added to connect the dots. Thomson could have amassed a fortune to match his famous cronies, but he was not a greedy man; he was quiet, gentle, and humble. Few people in Georgia know Thomson's story. Here is the Georgia Rail Road and the Edgar Thomson story from 1833 through 1845. All proceeds of this book benefit the Thomson-McDuffie Museum, Thomson GA.

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9781944193928

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Lewis Smith is a retired CPA who is the volunteer Director of the Thomson-McDuffie Museum in Thomson, GA. He has written a self-published book about his paternal grandmother's family and has a third book about his four years in the US Navy during the Vietnam War in the works. He writes a weekly column for the McDuffie Progress newspaper and has been published in Georgia Backroads magazine.

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