Records of Delaware sites, 1975.

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 ...

Jackson and Sharp Company

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The Jackson and Sharp Company, a manufacturer of railroad passenger cars, was incorporated in Delaware on February 24, 1869, as the successor to the partnership of Jackson & Sharp. From the description of Apprenticeship agreement, 1871. (Hagley Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 650074533 From the description of Miscellaneous letters, 1873-1874. (Hagley Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 123466202 The Jackson and Sharp Company, a man...

Historic American Engineering Record

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The Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) document achievements in architecture, engineering, and landscape design in the United States and its territories through a comprehensive range of building types, engineering technologies, and landscapes, including examples as diverse as the Pueblo of Acoma, houses, windmills, one-room schools, the Golden Gate Bridge, and buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Administered since 1933 through cooperative agreements with the National Park Service,...

Wilmington and Northern Railroad 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...

Pullman's Palace Car Company

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Sleeping car companies acquired by Pullman's Palace Car Company. Founded in 1870, the Erie and Atlantic Sleeping Coach Company was bought by Pullman in 1873. The Southern Transportation Company, founded in 1865 and controlled by the Central Transporation Company, was leased by Pullman in 1870 for $20,000 per year as part of the larger Central Transportation Co. deal. The Southern's lines became part of Pullman's new subsidiary, the Pullman Southern Car Company. In 1878, ...

New Castle and Frenchtown Turnpike and Rail Road Company.

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Curtis Paper Company

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The Curtis Paper Company was a small producer specializing in high-quality paper located in Newark, Del. The Milford Paper Mill had been established on White Clay Creek near Newark by Thomas Meeteer in 1789 and remained in the Meeteer family until 1838, after which it passed to other parties, who allowed it to fall into disrepair. In 1848 the brothers S. Minot and George B. Curtis of Newton Lower Falls, Mass., purchased the property, rebuilt the mill, and began the manuf...

J.E. Rhoads & Sons, Inc.

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Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Rail Road Company

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The Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Rail Road Company was organized in 1836. It operated in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Delaware. In 1902, it became a subsidiary of the Pennsylvania Rail Road. From the description of Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Rail Road Company landscaping account book, 1885-1891. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 317496691 ...

Pusey and Jones Company

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Pennsylvania Railroad

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The Pennsylvania Railroad Company was the largest railroad in the United States in terms of corporate assets and traffic from the last quarter of the nineteenth century until the decline of the northeast's and midwest's dominance of manufacturing, caused by the evolution of the interstate highway system and the advancements in air transportation. Originally created by Philadelphia merchants in 1846, it sought to build a trunk route from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh via the Allegheny Mountains to c...

Joseph Bancroft & Sons Company.

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