George Adair

George Washington Adair (March 1, 1823 – September 29, 1899) was a real-estate developer in post Civil War Atlanta.

[1][2] James Calhoun, William H. Dabney, Charles Murphy and Ephraim M. Poole supported him with the means to study at the Decatur Academy.

He already owned the Gate City Guardian newspaper when in 1861 he bought the Atlanta Southern Confederacy and merged the two keeping the name of the latter, assisted by J. Henly Smith.

After co-founding the Atlanta Street Railway Company with Richard Peters in 1871 he began to develop areas at the same time they ran new streetcar lines to serve them: including West End and Adair Park.

[5][6] Adair died at the age of 76, leaving his wife and six children: Jack, Forrest, George, Sallie, Annie, and Mary.