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CORPORATE HISTORY

The Roswell Railroad was incorporated under the general laws of Georgia, by the assignee of the purchasers of the Atlanta and Roswell Rail Road Company, through filing with the secretary of the State of Georgia in July, 1880, a petition to succeed to the property, rights, and franchises of the latter, the property of which was sold through foreclosure of a contractor's lien, on October 2, 1877, to a purchasing committee. The property was conveyed by deed dated July 28, 1879, to James W. Robertson, assignee of the purchasers, who reconveyed the property to the Roswell Railroad by deed dated July 15, 1880.

DEVELOPMENT OF FIXED PHYSICAL PROPERTY

Shortly after its incorporation, the Roswell Railroad purchased the unfinished narrow-gage road of the Atlanta and Roswell Rail Road, between Chamblee and Roswell, Ga., and therafter[sic] completed the construction of same between those points, a distance of 9.082 miles, on September 1, 1881. It can not be ascertained what portion of this line, if any, had been completed by the Atlanta and Roswell Rail Road, nor do the available records disclose

ATLANTA AND ROSWELL RAIL ROAD COMPANY—PREDECESSOR OF THE ROSWELL RAILROAD

INTRODUCTORY

The Atlanta and Roswell Rail Road Company was a corporation of Georgia,

CORPORATE HISTORY

The Atlanta and Roswell Rail Road Company was chartered for a period of 30 years by an act of the legislature assented to April 10, 1863, Georgia Laws 1862-63, No.

Nothing was done under this charter, but when in 1870 the Atlanta and Richmond Air Line Railway Company was actively engaged in the construction of its line

there was obtained an amendment to the Atlanta and Roswell Rail Road Company's charter in an act approved October 6, 1870, Georgia Laws 1870, No.