New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Predecessor Company Collection. undated, 1815-1907.

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New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Predecessor Company Collection., undated, 1815-1907.

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New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Predecessor Company Collection. undated, 1815-1907.

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http://doddcenter.uconn.edu/asc/findaids/NHRR_Predecessor/MSS19910136.html

Abstract

The collection holds documents related to early southern New England railroads, particularly those that were predecessor lines of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, including the Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad; the Boston and New York Airline Railroad; the Central New England Railway; the Charles River Railroad; the Chicago and Evanston Railroad; the Connecticut River Railroad; the Hartford and New Haven Railroad; the Hartford, Providence and Fishkill Railroad; the Housatonic Railroad; the Housantonic and Naugatuck Railroad; the Meriden and Cromwell Railroad; the Meriden, Waterbury, and Connecticut River Railroad; the Naugatuck Railroad; the New Haven and Derby Railroad; the New Haven and Northern Railroad; the New Haven and Northampton Company; the New York and New England Railroad; the New York and New Haven Railroad; the New York, Providence and Boston Railroad; the Newburgh, Dutchess and Connecticut Railroad; the Norfolk County Railroad; the Philadelphia, Reading, and New England Railroad; and the Poughkeepsie and Eastern Railway. The collection also includes correspondence Julius Wadsworth, who operated a New York based bond brokerage that heavily invested in railroads and Charles F. Pond, president of the Hartford and New Haven Railroad.

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eng,

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Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Center.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6332452

Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Center.

Related Entities

There are 28 Entities related to this resource.

Newburgh, Dutchess and Connecticut Railroad

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Norfolk County Railroad

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New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad.

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New Haven and Northern Railroad

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Central New England Railway

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Hartford, Providence and Fishkill Railroad.

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Housatonic Railroad and Naugatuck Railroad

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Poughkeepsie and Eastern Railway.

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Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad.

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Chicago and Evanston Railroad.

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Housatonic Railroad

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New York New Haven & Hartford Railroad

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For almost one hundred years the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad, better known as the New Haven Railroad, was the primary means of passenger and freight transportation in southern New England. Chartered in 1872, this merger between the New York & New Haven and Hartford & New Haven railroads later included the long desired rail link between Boston and New York. Approximately one hundred small independent railroads were built in southern New England between 1826 and the 1880s. B...