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

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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Main Author: Grant, H. Roger
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, 2014.
©2014
Series:Railroads past and present.
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