"Electricity came to Atlanta in 1884, when the Georgia Electric Light Company of Atlanta, chartered in 1883, began service... Atkinson acquired controlling stock in the Georgia Electric Light Company of Atlanta in 1891 and formed it into an entirely new company, shortening the name to the Georgia Electric Light Company... in 1902... Atkinson bought out Hurt's interests and formed the Georgia Railway and Electric Company... In 1903 the company added to its holdings the Atlanta Gas Light Company, which operated as the natural gas department of the electric company until 1929... Needing more power for Atlanta after the first decade of the twentieth century, Atkinson made an agreement to acquire a financially strapped hydroelectric project on the Tallulah River in north Georgia, newly begun by the Georgia Power Company, which had been chartered by C. Elmer Smith and Eugene Ashley in 1908. In 1912 Atkinson combined this first Georgia Power Company, the Morgan Falls hydro plant, and the Georgia Railway and Electric Company into the Georgia Railway and Power Company (GRPC), which completed the Tallulah Falls development... GRPC was acquired in 1926 by Southeastern Power and Light Company, a holding company. This changed to Commonwealth and Southern Corporation (1929), which became in 1947 the Southern Company, parent company of Georgia Power today." -- "Georgia Power Company/Southern Company." New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1879 (Retrieved May 26, 2010)
William A. Baehr was a consulting engineer.
From the description of Valuations reports, other studies, and photos relating to plants and properties of the Georgia Railway & Electric Company, 1919-1921. (University of Georgia). WorldCat record id: 632373739
