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Laurent DeGive
: Belgian Consul in Atlanta.
When the War Between the States was over and the people of Atlanta were
rebuilding their city, Mr. Laurent DeGive, a courtly gentleman of the old school
and an alumnus of the University of Liege in his native Belgium, built DeGive's
Opera House on Marietta Street near the corner of Forsyth. Later Mr. DeGive
built the Grand Opera House on Peachtree Street.
The first street railway company inAtlanta was organized in 1871. The West End
line was the first built and was completed in September, 1871. Another company,
the Gate City Street Railroad Company, was organized in 1881 by L, DeGive, L. B.
Wilson, A. M. Reinhardt and John Stephens. In 1884 they built a line beginning
in front of the Kimball House on Pryor Street and passing over Pryor, Wheat and
Jackson Streets to Ponce de Leon Springs. They operated this line until Januaiy,
1887, when it was sold.
Source : - Cooper, Walter G.; Official history of Fulton
County; Atlanta: W.W. Brown Pub. Co., c1934, 930 pgs.
- Atlanta centennial year book : 1837-1937. Atlanta?: G. Murphy,
1937, 170 pgs.
Source : (collective work) : Atlanta centennial year book : 1837-1937.; Atlanta?: G. Murphy, 1937, 170 pgs.