Atlanta and Edgewood Street Railroad

The Atlanta & Edgewood Street Railroad Company of Atlanta, Georgia was organized in 1886 by Joel Hurt, C. W. Hubner, H. E. W. Palmer, W. P. Inman, Peter Lynch, R. C. Mitchell, Asa Griggs Candler, J. P. McDonald, J. G. Reynolds, A. F. Moreland, and P. H. Harralson.

Hurt owned the East Atlanta Land Company which improved Edgewood Avenue (demolishing 94 existing dwellings to do so).

The steel rails were gauges heavier than those used on the Georgia Railroad which ran parallel just to the south.

The rails were elevated on stone piers and surrounded by paving made of Belgian block.

The streetcar was designed to make easily and comfortably accessible Hurt's garden suburb, Inman Park.