The Chamblee to Roswell Railroad
Although there are practically no remnants of it left, there was a railroad, the Roswell Railroad, that ran from south of Roswell to Chamblee from 1881 until 1921. It carried both passengers and freight. The north end of the line was located south of the Chattahoochee River near Roberts Drive in Roswell. A bridge over the Chattahoochee was planned but never built. Ike Roberts, after whom Roberts Drive in Roswell was named, was an employee of the Southern Railway when it decided to construct the railroad. Roberts helped in the grading and track-laying for the line and worked as an engineer during the entire time the railroad was in existence. His home on Roberts Drive still stands. One of three railroad employee houses which was the near the tracks also still stands at Old Dunwoody Station near the intersection of Chamblee Dunwoody and Mount Vernon roads. In 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt rode the train to Roswell to visit his mother's childhood ho...