Terminal Station Plaza

The Samuel Spencer monument, which was located just to the east of Terminal Station's front doors, paid tribute to the founder of the Southern Railway. Spencer was born in 1847 and died 59 years later in a 1906 train collision in Virginia.

The statue, created by noted sculptor Daniel Chester French (who also created the Abraham Lincoln sculpture in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.), has been moved but remains in Atlanta and is now located at the Southern Railway headquarters at 1200 Peachtree Street. You can scroll down if you'd care to see a 2008 photo taken when the statue was residing in downtown's compact Hardy Ivy Park. More Terminal Station images