Among the things that changed south Georgia, new modes of transportation had dramatic effects, especially railroads. Early on, Savannah was linked by rails to Augusta and to Atlanta — a bustling new railroad town — by the Central of Georgia line and one could catch a train at Dover, a fuel and water stop across the Ogeechee, to visit “faraway” places. However, railroads did not come to the sandhills, river swamps and pineywoods of the back country until much later.