You can see by the web site that we are in the land improvement business, and WE would be proud to say that it all started with US, but that would be an untruth. Our company was started by my father, and before then his father and uncle pursued the same type of businesses, so it has been passed down through the generations. As you travel through the area between Lavista Rd. and East Ponce De Leon and Memorial Drive continuing on to I-20 inwards toward the city limits of Atlanta, you can view the granite work completed by our company in its early years in the granite construction, curbing, or house crawl space erection. As you drive through and shop in the Northlake mall area, what you are driving and shopping atop of was installed by Millard Robert Anderson “The Grandfather” and Robert M. Anderson Never being inclined to be idle in either hand or mind, the Anderson Family learned to develop land, and those skills were honed with time. One of the ideas that is central to our family business is “Earth moving tractors pursued with a love not greater than God or Family, but with a great love for the land.” The smell of newly uncovered earth has been a central and long-running love through the generations of the Anderson family. The entrepreneurial spirit has shown itself in many forms through the course of our family and businesses’ histories. Early businessmen in our family entered into the peach business, our Great Uncle Bob pursued the dirt business, and my father Robert M. Anderson, learning that the peach trade was not for him, applied his gifts and determination toward the dirt business, land development, and also started a quarry business which got its start with the granite curb on the roadways mentioned and the wall and granite work that you will see at Oglethorpe College on Peachtree. Robert M. Anderson was a man that knew that he could provide for his family with the work of his own hands. Robert M. Anderson set the foundations for many buildings and structures in and around Atlanta, and more importantly he laid the foundations for our family and established a tradition that we proudly carry on today. In the early days of my father’s business, he purchased a farm tractor and a flatbed, sought out landscaping work, and employed help from the southern part of Georgia. To this day we still have families working with us that worked with my father, and they are an active and important part of our business. The business continued to grow and develop and the work that my father was getting required more than the original farm equipment. So the dirt moving business was born. It is said that my father purchased the first Caterpillar 955 loader delivered in the State of Georgia, in addition to other small dozers that were required to take on the larger projects coming R.M. Anderson’s way. Eventually the business required the addition of pull-pans and cable driven dozers. At that time, many men in the area were chasing the same dream, and it was as if the race was on. As any business person knows, being self employed takes a toll, but the challenges were overcome. Over time, the water was treaded and the business succeeded and thrived, and it could rightly be said that the business was built “from the ground up” to this very day. The next generation of Andersons made the decision to implement ditch digging. It was then that Millard Anderson added the excavator backhoe and picked up the string and the batter board and dug ditch for utility installation and found a new love. The same areas in and around Atlanta were requiring dirt and pipe together, and then there was added as an additional service to coordinate the curb and paving which brought around the turnkey operation.