The Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston Rail Road : Dreams of Linking North and South

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Among the grand antebellum plans to build railroads to interconnect the vast American republic, perhaps none was more ambitious than the Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston. The route was intended to link the cotton-producing South and the grain and livestock growers of the Old Northwest with tr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Grant, H. Roger
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston Rail-Road Company.
Transportation.
Railroads.
TRANSPORTATION > Railroads > History.
TRANSPORTATION > Railroads > Pictorial.
Chemins de fer > Caroline du Sud > Histoire.
Transportation > South Carolina > History.
Railroads > South Carolina > History.
South Carolina.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Among the grand antebellum plans to build railroads to interconnect the vast American republic, perhaps none was more ambitious than the Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston. The route was intended to link the cotton-producing South and the grain and livestock growers of the Old Northwest with traders and markets in the East, creating economic opportunities along its 700-mile length. But then came the Panic of 1837, and the project came to a halt. H. Roger Grant tells the incredible story of this singular example of ""railroad fever"" and the remarkable visionaries whose hopes for connecting
Physical Description:1 online resource (216 pages).
ISBN:9780253011879

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