Did you know that the Georgia legislature once chartered a company to construct a railroad from Forsyth to West Point, Georgia?

The line, however, never came about, even with the prospect of a $200,000 grant from the state.  Locally, Elbridge G. Cabaniss and Henry H. Lumpkin, brother to the former governor, Wilson Lumpkin, promoted the project, but evidently investors were scarce in 1836 and the charter most likely lapsed.  Many years later when the Macon and Birmingham Railroad was constructed, that company did provide transportation to West Point—but through Culloden, not Forsyth.