Georgia-Pacific

Georgia-Pacific is a Georgia historical marker in Fulton County, dedicated 2017.

Located at 133 Peachtree Street NE in Atlanta (Intersection of Peachtree Street NW and John Wesley Dobbs Ave NE).

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Owen R. Cheatham founded the Georgia Hardwood Lumber Company in Augusta, GA, in 1927. By 1938, the company operated five lumberyards in the South. To broaden its product line, the company purchased its first Pacific Coast facility--a plywood plant--in 1947. In 1948, the company was renamed Georgia-Pacific Plywood and Lumber Company and was listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1949. Its first operation outside North America began in the Philippines in 1963. Georgia-Pacific Center, the company's corporate headquarters, was built in 1982 on the site of Loew's Grand Theatre, where Gone with the Wind premiered in 1939. At its 90th anniversary in 2017, Georgia-Pacific was one of the world's leading manufacturers of consumer products, building products, packaging, and pulp with tens of thousands of employees across the globe, including 7,500 in Georgia.

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Historical maps covering this location

1874 · Military Operations of the Atlanta Campaign. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1892 · Atlanta, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1895 · Atlanta, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1924 · South Carolina. Florida. Georgia. Mississippi. Alabama. North Carolina. South Carolina. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Historical map (Stanford Libraries)

South Carolina. Florida. Georgia. Mississippi. Alabama. North Carolina. South Carolina, 1924, covering the location of Georgia-Pacific, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — South Carolina. Florida. Georgia. Mississippi. Alabama. North Carolina. South Carolina, 1924, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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