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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.