The Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston Rail Road
Author | : H. Roger Grant |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2014-04-17 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780253011879 |
ISBN-13 | : 0253011876 |
Rating | : 4/5 (876 Downloads) |
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.