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Georgia Railway and Power Company
Georgia Power is an electricity corporation based in Georgia . It is the largest of the four electric utilities that is operated by Southern Company .
Georgia Power is an investor-owned, tax-paying public utility that serves more than two million customers in all but four of Georgia 's 159 counties. It employs approximately 9000 workers throughout the state.[1]
The Georgia Power Building , its primary corporate office building , is located at 241 Ralph McGill Boulevard in downtown Atlanta .
In 2006 the Savannah Electric & Power Company , a separate subsidiary of Southern Company, was merged into Georgia Power.
History Originally the Georgia Railway and Power Company , it began in 1902 as a streetcar company running the trolleys in Atlanta, and was the successor to the Atlanta Consolidated Street Railway Company . In the 1930s, they published a free newsletter called Two Bells which was distributed on their streetcars.[2] dams , including the Morgan Falls Dam just north of the city, and some as far away as the Tallulah River in the northeast Georgia mountains . These hydroelectric dams form Lake Burton , Lake Seed , Lake Rabun , Lake Tallulah Falls and Lake Tugalo , the last straddling the border with South Carolina on the Tugaloo River .
After the Atlanta transit strike of 1950 , the Atlanta Transit Company took over operations. Atlanta Streetcar was formed in the 2000s to establish a new trolley service along Peachtree Street .
References
Kurtz, Wilber, "Technical Advisor: The Making of Gone With The Wind . The Hollywood Journals", Atlanta Historical Journal
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