Joel Hurt

Joel Hurt (1850–1926) was an important businessman and developer of turn-of-the-century  Atlanta.Born in Hurtsboro, Alabama (a town named for his father, Joel Hurt, Sr. ), he went to college at Auburn University and graduated from the University of Georgia in 1871. He was in the railroad business, surveying first out West the bed that became the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, next he surveyed a small spur off the Richmond and Danville line to Athens, Georgia.
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