First annual report of the president and directors, 1837.

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First annual report of the president and directors, 1837.

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Handwritten report concerns the establishment of the Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston Rail-Road Company. Resolutions adopted at the first meeting of stockholders and later carried out concern matters such as the hiring of engineers, the route of the railway, and the election of company officers (Robert Y. Hayne was elected president). A chart on a scrap of paper lists the number of passengers, passage money, amount of freight, total receipts, and bales of cotton for 1834-1837.

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South Carolina Historical Society

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Hayne, Robert Young, 1791-1839

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American statesman; governor of S.C. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Charleston, to M. Carey, 1816 Sept. 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270466688 From the description of Autograph letter in third person, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269606184 Charleston and St. Paul Parish, S.C. attorney, South Carolina state legislator and governor, and U.S. senator. From the description of Letter : to M. Kelly, 1825 Sept. 1. (The South C...

Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston Rail-Road Company

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In the 1830s, Daniel Drake and others proposed a rail line running from Charleston, South Carolina to Cincinnati, Ohio. A charter was sought from the Kentucky General Assembly to allow the construction of the line through the Commonwealth. The charter was passed in 1836 with provisions for branch lines to Louisville and Maysville. The line changed its name to the Louisville, Cincinnati and Charleston Rail-Road. The company's stock sales met poor response outside South Carolina. The line sought n...