The Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston Rail Road

Dreams of Linking North and South

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Transportation, Railroads, History
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Author: H. Roger Grant ISBN: 9780253011879
Publisher: Indiana University Press Publication: April 17, 2014
Imprint: Indiana University Press Language: English
Author: H. Roger Grant
ISBN: 9780253011879
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication: April 17, 2014
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Language: English

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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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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