Featured Old Atlantic Coast Line R.R Co. And Seaboard Air Line Railway maps.

After doing a little more research, I found that the City of Savannah has 36 of these maps in their archives. I have way more than that. So, I'm pretty sure Savannah would be very interested in these. It's mind blowing that I came across these and I'm very fortunate and thankful. These weren't mass produced for the general public so the quantity of these are very rare. I'm going to hang onto these and in the near future, get them appraised as a group.

There's one particular map I find very interesting. It's an Inset map. It was originally titled with the town of Ways,GA. That name was crossed out and renamed to Richmond Hill. Being from this area and I drive through Richmind Hill a lot, it makes me wonder if it was originally called Ways, GA?

 

Richmond Hill is a city in Bryan County, Georgia, United States. Oglethorpe, only a year after the founding of the Georgia colony at Savannah, awarded grants of land on the Ogeechee River in 1734. Once known as St. Phillips Parish, Bryan County was established in 1793. On February 1, 1797 the Bryan County justices valued 2 acres at the Cross Roads for $24 for the purpose of establishing a permanent county seat in courthouse. Cross Roads was the intersection of the Savannah-Darien Stage Road (current US 17) and the Bryan Neck Road (current GA Hwy 144). The Cross Roads became Ways Station in 1856 when the Savannah, Albany & Gulf R.R. was built across the nearby Ogeechee River into Bryan County. Near this site a train depot was built, which came to be known as “Ways No. 1 ½” for William J. Way, the first station master and a local rice planter on lands through which the railroad passed. A settlement grew up in the section between the railroad tracks and the Crossroads just to the west. It came to be called Ways Station, a designation that lasted until 1941 when the name of the community was changed to Richmond Hill.

 

My family, on my father's side, are Ways.
Not that any of them ever lived in the south.

 

in other words...there's gold in them thar maps !!!

 

Interesting information you found, Joe --