Account book, 1850-1860.

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Account book, 1850-1860.

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Account book, 25 October 1850-17 March 1860, of investements of Burd's personal estate in the stock of such companies as the Schuylkill Navigation Company, the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad, the Pennsylvnia Railroad Company, the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company and the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company. Rear of volume contains printed and manuscript receipts for ground rent, dividends and interest. Eli K. Price is often mentioned.

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Pennsylvania Railroad

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Burd, Eliza Howard Simms, 1793-1860

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Price, Eli Kirk, -1933

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Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company

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The surge of investment that filled the Anthracite region of northeastern Pennsylvania in the mid-1700s did not reach the Lehigh Valley until 1791 when coal was found near Summit Hill, west of Mauch Chunk, leading to the formation of the Lehigh Coal Mines Company. Coal was floated downriver on wooden rafts known as arks, which were dismantled and sold as lumber upon arrival. Flooding, shallow water and swift currents created financial problems for the company until Josiah White, familiar with ca...

Schuylkill Navigation Company

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Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company

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Formed in 1802 to dig a canal across the Delmarva Peninsula to join the Delaware Bay and the Chesapeake Bay. Engineering surveys were done by Benjamin Henry Latrobe and work actually began but the company ran out of money and abandoned the project in late 1805. In 1822 the company was revived and a canal was completed which opened in 1829. In 1919 the canal, which ran from Delaware City, Del., to Chesapeake City, Md., was purchased by the federal government. From the description of C...