Map project data files, Transportation in the Middle Atlantic States, 1750-1860.

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company

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The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) was founded in 1827, and operated from the Great Lakes, Ohio, through the mid-Atlantic. The B&O's successor, CSX Corporation, was created in 1987 from interim holding companies. From the description of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company personnel records, circa 1940-1979. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 760082029 ...

New-York and Albany Rail Road Company

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New York and Erie Railroad Company

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Chartered April 1832. From the description of Report of A.C. Morton, engineer of the Delaware Division, on the routes proposed for the New York & Erie Rail Road between Goshen and the mouth of Callicoon : manuscript, 1841 June 10. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58758123 ...

Cumberland Valley Railroad Company

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Virginia. Board of Public Works

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An act of the General Assembly approved February 14, 1853 authorized formation of the Franklin and Monterey Road Company to construct a state road from Franklin in Pendleton County to Monterey in Highland County. The act was amended April 1, 1858 to approve one toll gate midway but exempting local traffic provided the two counties ensure maintenance. From the description of Franklin and Monterey Road Company records, 1853-1859. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86147319 An act ...

Virginia Central Railroad Company

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Alexandria Canal Company

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Erie Canal Company

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Dismal Swamp Canal Company

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The Dismal Swamp Canal, which connects Chesapeake Bay and Albemarle Sound, was proposed as early as 1763 when George Washington and five associates formed the "Adventurers for Draining the Great Dismal Swamp." This company abandoned the project as economically unfeasible. In 1784, the Dismal Swamp Canal Company was created. On December 1, 1787, the Virginia Assembly passed an "Act for cutting a navigable canal ..." Digging of the canal finally began in 1793. Most of the work was don...

Southside Railroad Company.

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Pittsburgh and Connellsville Railroad Company

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Regional Economic History Research Center (Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation)

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Baltimore and Susquehanna Railroad Company

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Chartered 1828; consolidated with several other lines to form Northern Central Railroad Company ca. 1855. From the description of Records, [18--]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70970254 ...

Susquehanna Canal Company

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Winchester and Potomac Railroad Company

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Richmond and Petersburg Railroad Company

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Established in 1836. Became Atlantic Coast Line Railroad in 1900. Part of the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad. From the description of Journal, 1865-1870. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 154270414 From the description of Journal, 1865-1870. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19105543 ...

Richmond and Danville Railroad Company

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Incorporated in Virginia in 1847; main line opened in 1856 from Richmond to Danville, Va. (140 miles); grew through purchase, lease, and other means to 3300 miles of railroad by 1890; controlled by Richmond and West Point Terminal Railway and Warehouse Company (1886-1894); reorganized as Southern Railway Company in 1894. From the description of Records, 1847-1894. (Virginia Tech). WorldCat record id: 28410076 Stem (Granville Co.), N.C. railroad company. From the ...

Manassas Gap Railroad Company

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Delaware and Hudson Canal Company

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Ithaca & Owego Railroad Company.

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New Jersey Rail Road and Transportation Company.

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James River and Kanawha Company (Richmond, Va.)

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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...

Bald Eagle and Spring Creek Navigation Company

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Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company

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Now a national park, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal was once a major transportation artery that ran parallel to the Potomac River from Cumberland, Maryland, to Georgetown in the District of Columbia. The canal operated from the mid-nineteenth century into the 1930s and was used primarily for the transportation of coal and bulk agricultural products. These products, produced in the inland regions of the developing nation, were vital to the continuing prosperity of Tidewater cities and...

Hagley Museum and Library. Regional Economic History Research Center.

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The Regional Economic Research Center was a temporary unit of the Hagley Museum and Library devoted to supporting research on the economic history of the Middle Atlantic States between 1750 and 1850. Between 1978 and 1981 it conducted a project to document and map the growth of the transportation infrastructure between New York and Virginia. The work on canals and railroads was published as CANALS AND RAILROADS OF THE MID-ATLANTIC STATES: 1800-1860, in 1981. However, add...

Codorus Navigation Company

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Chartered 1825; involved in canal navigation and shipping in York County, Pa. From the description of Records, 1825-1843. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70970496 ...

Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Company

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Incorporated in Virginia in 1848 as Lynchburg and Tennessee Railroad Company; name changed to Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Company in 1849; ran from Lynchburg, Va., to Bristol, Tenn. (204 miles); consolidated with Southside, Norfolk and Petersburg, and Virginia and Kentucky railroads in 1870 to form Atlantic, Mississippi & Ohio Railroad Company. From the description of Records, 1848-1871. (Virginia Tech). WorldCat record id: 28411836 Chartered 1849, opened 1857; conso...

Tide Water Canal Company

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Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad Company

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Chartered in Virginia in 1851; ran from Norfolk to Petersburg, Va. (81 miles); consolidated in 1870 with South Side Rail Road Company, Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Company, and Virginia and Kentucky Railroad Company to form Atlantic, Mississippi, and Ohio Railroad Company. From the description of Records, 1853-1871. (Virginia Tech). WorldCat record id: 28420972 ...

Lorberry Creek Railroad Company.

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Susquehanna Railroad Company

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Upper Appomattox Company.

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Baer, Christopher T.

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Orange and Alexandria Railroad Company

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Incorporated in Virginia in 1848 to build a railroad from Gordonsville to Alexandria, Va.; consolidated in 1867 with Manassas Gap Railroad Company to form Orange, Alexandria, and Manassas Gap Railroad Company. From the description of Records, 1855-1867. (Virginia Tech). WorldCat record id: 28409349 ...

Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad Company.

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Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal Company

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Schuylkill Navigation Company

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The Schuylkill Navigation Company constructed a canal along the Schuylkill River from Philadelphia to the anthracite coal field near Pottsville in 1815-1825. From the description of Subscription list for loans, 1824-1824. (Hagley Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 86123565 The Schuylkill Navigation Company was incorporated under the laws of Pennsylvania on March 8, 1815, for the purpose of improving the navigation of the Schuylkill River above tide. The ...

Little Schuylkill Navigation Rail Road and Coal Company

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Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad.

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Lykens Valley Rail-Road and Coal Company.

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Tioga Navigation Company

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Alexandria, Loudoun and Hampshire Rail Road Company

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Camden and Amboy Rail Road and Transportation Company.

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Danville and Pottsville Rail Road Company

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The Danville & Pottsville Railroad Company was incorporated under the laws of Pennsylvania on April 8, 1826, and received letters patent on February 18, 1831. The object was to form a portage between the Schuylkill and upper Susquehanna valleys. Stephen Girard, the Philadelphia merchant who owned 28,500 acres of coal and timber lands along the route was the principal stockholder. Gen. Daniel Montgomery of Danville was the first president. Girard's death on December 26, 1831, retarded the pro...

Monongahela Navigation Company

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In 1817, the Monongahela Navigation Company was incorporated by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to "make a lock navigation on the river Monongahela." After overcoming numerous financial and engineering difficulties, the company succeeded in building four locks and dams by 1844, opening the Monongahela from Pittsburgh to Brownsville for slackwater navigation. From the description of Copybook of records of Monongahela Navigation Company, 1840-1897. (University of Pittsburgh). WorldCat...