In 1890, this Atlanta company purchased about 238 thousand acres of land in and near the Okefenokee swamp for the purpose of harvesting timber and possible land development. In 1891, a canal was begun from the swamp to the St. Mary's river; by 1895, the company's work site at Camp Cornelia in Charlton County, Georgia, had railway access from Folkston. Efforts to drain the swamp and sell off all its timber ultimately failed, and the company was placed in the hands of a receiver in 1897 and eventually sold.