CARL, Georgia — Railroads in the western Barrow County town of Carl date to the late 1880s when the Georgia, Carolina & Northern Railway started building a line between Baltimore and Atlanta, with the route passing through town.
The line reached the Atlanta Area in 1892, though before the railroad’s completion, it was leased to a company operating as Seaboard Air Line.
Carl was apparently known as Dillard’s Crossing and Lawson before it was renamed.