Central of Georgia Railway [SEP] inception
at foreclosure three years later, being reorganized as the Central of Georgia "Railway" on November 1, 1895.
In 1907 railroad magnate and financier E. H. Harriman gained a controlling interest in the railway, and in 1909 sold his interest to the Illinois Central Railroad, which he also controlled. In 1932, during the Great Depression, the CofG went into receivership, from which it did not emerge until 1948. In 1956, the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway ("Frisco"), seeking a route to
. In 1892, the R&D and subsidiaries entered receivership.
Reorganized by J.P. Morgan and his New York banking firm of Drexel, Morgan and Company, they emerged in 1894 as the Southern Railway Company, which controlled over of line at its inception. In 1980, Southern Railway Company later became part of Norfolk Southern Railway.
Heritage.
Buford is honored by the naming of the thoroughfare Buford Road in Bon Air, Virginia.
Buford, Georgia, a town (and later a city) on a portion for