Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton Railroad Records 1840-1877

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Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton Railroad Records 1840-1877

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Contains newspaper clippings, circulars, documents, and business correspondence from the scrapbook of an early president of the C.H. and D. Railroad. Another group of materials consists of copies of articles from the American Railroad Journal (1847-1855) pertaining to railroads in the Miami Valley area.

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Wright State University, Special Collections and Archives

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Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton Railroad Company

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The Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad began construction in the Miami Valley in 1846. The railroad was originally constructed to connect Cincinnati and Hamilton, Ohio but was soon stretched onward to Dayton. By the end of the nineteenth-century the company controlled over 640 miles of track. In 1917 the railroad was acquisitioned by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The compiler of the collection, S.S.L'Hommedieu who was elected the second president of the company ...