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The railroad became a key supply, food and troop movement route for the Confederate States Army, particularly from the capital of Richmond to the interior at Chattanooga, Tennessee. The V&T moved also key raw materials: copper from mines near Cleveland, Tennessee , lead from mines near Bristol , salt from Saltville, Virginia and saltpeter from ...
U.S. Route 1 (US 1) is a major north–south U.S. Route in the state of Massachusetts, traveling through Essex, Middlesex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Bristol counties. The portion of US 1 south of Boston is also known as the Boston–Providence Turnpike , Washington Street , or the Norfolk and Bristol Turnpike, and portions north of Boston are known ...
The East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad Company was incorporated under a special act of Tennessee on January 27, 1848. [ 1 ] The company built 130.7 miles (210.3 km) of 5 ft ( 1,524 mm ) [ 2 ] gauge railroad line between Knoxville, Tennessee and Bristol, Tennessee between 1850 and 1856.
Twelfth Massachusetts Turnpike: Egremont–Sheffield—Connecticut line 1801–1857 US 7–Egremont Road–Route 23: Salem Turnpike: Boston–Lynn–Salem 1802–1868 Broadway–Route 107: Norfolk and Bristol Turnpike: Dedham: Washington Street–US 1 / Route 1A: Quincy Turnpike: Quincy: Fourteenth Massachusetts Turnpike: Shelburne: Camden ...
The East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad (ETV&G) was a rail transport system that operated in the southeastern United States during the late 19th century. Created with the consolidation of the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad and the East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad in 1869, the ETV&G played an important role in connecting East Tennessee and other isolated parts of Southern ...
Lynchburg and Durham Railroad: Lynchburg and Tennessee Railroad: N&W: 1848 1849 Virginia and Tennessee Railroad: Manassas Gap Railroad: SOU: 1850 1867 Orange, Alexandria and Manassas Railroad: Marion and Rye Valley Railroad: 1891 1900 Marion and Rye Valley Railway: Marion and Rye Valley Railway: 1900 1931 N/A Martinsburg and Potomac Railroad ...
At the outset of the war, the Confederacy possessed the third largest set of railroads of any nation in the world, with about 9,000 miles of railroad track. [1] Southern companies, towns, cities as well as state governments were heavy investors in railroad companies, which were typically designed as feeder lines linking farming centers to port ...
Martha's Vineyard Railroad: 1874 1892 N/A Massachusetts Central Railroad: B&M: 1869 1883 Central Massachusetts Railroad: Medford Branch Railroad: B&M: 1845 1845 Boston and Maine Railroad Extension Company: Medway Branch Railroad: NH: 1849 1864 Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad: Middleborough Railroad: NH: 1845 1845 Fall River Railroad (1846)