The Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston Rail Road

The Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston Rail Road
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Publisher : Indiana University Press
Total Pages : 209
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ISBN-10 : 9780253011879
ISBN-13 : 0253011876
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Book Synopsis The Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston Rail Road by : H. Roger Grant

Download or read book The Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston Rail Road written by H. Roger Grant and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-17 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 North and South would require more than half a century—and one Civil War—to reach fruition.


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