Property survey of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company, 1858-1912.

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Property survey of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company, 1858-1912.

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This bound volume of property surveys concerns the rail line along the Schuylkill River from Montgomery County near Philadelphia to the Phoenixville Station in Chester County. A title page is dated 1858, but dates for property transfers for each tract of land are manuscript and dated through 1912. The surveys include adjacent land owners, waterways, some elevations, buildings, stations and roads.

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Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co.

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In 1833, the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company (P & R) was established to serve the burgeoning anthracite coal industry and its customers throughout southeastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. The railroad also supported iron making, canal and sea-going transportation, and shipbuilding, establishing itself as a transportation industry giant for over a century. During the American Industrial Revolution, the P & R provided trackage to the most densely industrialized parts...