Peachtree Center in Atlanta in Fulton County, Georgia — The American South (South Atlantic)
Georgia-Pacific
Photographed by Duane and Tracy Marsteller, November 21, 2021
1. Georgia-Pacific Marker
Inscription.
Georgia-Pacific. . 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.
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.
Erected 2017 by Georgia Historical Society Georgia-Pacific. (Marker Number 60-23.)
series list. A significant historical year for this entry is 1927.
Location. 33° 45.434′ N, 84° 23.268′ W. Marker is in Atlanta, Georgia, in Fulton County. It is in Peachtree Center. It is at the intersection of Peachtree Street and John Wesley Dobbs Avenue NE, on the right when traveling north on Peachtree Street. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 133 Peachtree St, Atlanta GA 30303, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is in Georgia’s Piedmont. It is also in the American South and specifically in the Deep South. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region, North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture, one of the original Thirteen Colonies, one of the Confederate States of America, and the Antebellum South.
Also see . . . Georgia-Pacific History. Decade-by-decade history of the company. (Georgia-Pacific) (Submitted on November 30, 2021, by Duane and Tracy Marsteller of Murfreesboro, Tennessee.)
Credits. This page was last revised on February 8, 2023. It was originally submitted on November 30, 2021, by Duane and Tracy Marsteller of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. This page has been viewed 673 times since then and 32 times this year. Photos:1, 2. submitted on November 30, 2021, by Duane and Tracy Marsteller of Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
