He was everybody’s cousin. Nobody’s fool. And the richest 21-year-old in town. John Thrasher had been awarded a $25,000 contract to build a railroad embankment. Over the coming months, he would create a clearing in the forest, build several one-room, dirt-floor cabins for labor that he would soon hire and open up a general store […]
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He was everybody’s cousin. Nobody’s fool. And the richest 21-year old in town. It’s the story of the railroad man who built a community that became a city on this week’s Stories of Atlanta.
