Carrabelle, Tallahassee & Georgia Railroad

Timetable of Carrabelle, Tallahassee & Georgia R.R

The Carrabelle, Tallahassee & Georgia Railroad was incorporated on January 5, 1891. It was projected along a route extending from Carrabelle through Tallahassee and northward to the Georgia-Florida line. The railroad was incorporated with a capital stock of $1,000.000 and a land grant of 206,370.30 acres (835.1510 km²). The company owned 3 locomotives and 50 assorted railroad cars.

In Florida, the C.T. & G. had stops at Hilliardville, Crawfordville, MacIntyre, Lanark (site of an elegant casino/hotel), and Carrabelle.

From Carrabelle, the paddle steamer Crescent City, owned by the railroad, made daily round trips to Apalachicola, to which there was no road or rail access.

Prior to the railroad being the Carrabelle, Tallahassee & Georgia Railroad, it was the Thomasville, Tallahassee and Gulf Railroad, and later the Augusta, Tallahassee and Gulf Railroad Company.

In 1906, the C.T. & G. was sold to the Georgia, Florida and Alabama Railway.

Florida state law chapter 4264, approved May 22, 1893, granted land to the company that had formerly been granted to the Thomasville, Tallahassee and Gulf Railroad Company (on February 7, 1883). To obtain the land grants, the railroad would have to be finished between Tallahassee and Thomasville by January 1, 1895.

• Florida Department of State Archives. This article is based on the text presented with each photo or image.
• Florida Memory Collection, "Moonlight On The Gulf"