Two trains they called Nancy Hanks
People who remember riding a train called the Nancy Hanks from Savannah to Atlanta actually rode the Nancy Hanks II, and the trains weren't named directly for Abraham Lincoln's mother, but for a fast racehorse.
Publish Date: Saturday 29th April 2017
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People who remember riding a train called the Nancy Hanks from Savannah to Atlanta actually rode the Nancy Hanks II, and the trains weren't named directly for Abraham Lincoln's mother, but for a fast racehorse. Those were two potentially surprising facts that Bulloch County Historical Society members Rodney Harville and Sims Lanier shared with members and guests Monday. Harville and Lanier's presentation about the last regular passenger train service between Savannah and Atlanta, which ceased in 1971, and its earlier namesake, drew one of the largest crowds for a Historical Society regular meeting recently, about 100 people.
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