Collection, 1809-1972.

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Collection, 1809-1972.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122579569

Maps and other materials relating to the location and operation of the Leiper Railroad.

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Historical Society of Pennsylvania

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SNAC Resource ID: 6774285

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Leiper, Thomas, 1745-1825

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Thomas Leiper was born December 15, 1745 in Strathaven, Lanark, Scotland. He was educated at Glasgow and Edinburgh and immigrated to America in 1763, landing in Virginia where his brother already resided. He was immediately introduced into the business of tobacco, and within several years moved to Philadelphia where he opened a tobacco shop and "engaged in the storing and exportation of tobacco," (Leach). During the Revolutionary War, Leiper became the principal tobacco provider in ...

Leiper Railroad.

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The Leiper Railroad, the second railway to be constructed in the United States, was actually a tramway built in 1809 by Thomas Leiper, financier of Philadelphia, to transport stone from his quaries in eastern Delaware County, PA. It operated until ca. 1830. From the description of Collection, 1809-1972. (Historical Society of Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 122579569 ...