Rutledge, Georgia: Where the Railroad Turned Around

In the eighteen forties, the Georgia Railroad pushed west from Augusta and ran out of steam right here in Morgan County. The town of Rutledge grew up along that railroad line and was formally incorporated by the Georgia legislature in eighteen seventy-one. Rutledge today is a small, quiet town of under a thousand people, but its main street still carries the bones of a railroad-era commercial district.