DUBLIN & SOUTHWESTERN RAILROAD Stock 1905 Rentz, Georgia Pres. E.P. Rentz Lumber

Description

Dublin and Southwestern Railroad. Stock issued June 5, 1905 at Dublin, Georgia.
Incorporated in the State of Georgia.
“General Office, Dublin, Georgia”
printed beneath title. Gold embossed company seal lower left. Certificate
No. 61
was issued to
G. W. Brown & C. B. Carroll
for one share of capital stock (0 per share). Hand signed by company
president E. P. (Edward Pierce) Rentz (see bio below)
and secretary J. V. Tarver. Certificate is about 5.5” x 10.” Black print with gold underprint on beige-colored paper. Small eagle vignette.
The Dublin and Southwestern Railroad was founded in 1904 by Edward Pierce Rentz (who became the railroad’s first president), a Dublin, Georgia banker and businessman, with lumber interest in the Laurens County. The railroad was originally planned to operate between Dublin and Abbeville, Georgia (in Wilcox County), a distance of about 50 miles, however it only reached about two-thirds of the way, to Eastman, in Dodge County. E. P. Rentz owned the Rentz Lumber Company and was president of the Citizens Bank of Swainsboro. Construction of the Dublin and Southwestern Railroad began in 1904 near the cotton mills in Dublin under the supervision of E. P. Rentz, and was soon completed to E. P. Rentz’s lumber mills about 13 miles to the southwest. At about the same time, the new town of Rentz was being planned near the Rentz Lumber Company by E. P. Rentz and other local investors.
The town of Rentz was born on October 5, 1904, with E. P. Rentz acting on behalf of the Rentz Lumber Company. Soon after, Rentz began laying out additional rail lines toward the southwest at Eastman, where the new company headquarters were moved from Dublin in 1905. About one year later, the Dublin and Southwestern Railroad was purchased by the Wrightville & Tennille Railroad, which made its first runs on July 1, 1906, and later that year, E. P. Rentz sold his interest in the Rentz Lumber Company to Dublin area investors. As his Georgia operations were slowing down, E. P. Rentz decided to move to Ocala, Florida in 1907, where he had plans for a new lumber mill and railroad. There, Rentz purchased the Silver Springs Lumber Company in Ocala, in addition to large blocks of timber land along the drainage of the Oklawaha River in north-central Florida. And, Rentz’s new railroad became the Ocklawaha Valley Railroad, previously the Ocala Northern Railroad, running roughly parallel to the Oklawaha River.
Condition:  Very Fine
, light folds, minor creasing, no tears, minor signs of wear/handling/toning (see photos),
uncancelled.
Printer:
Goes.
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