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The historic district contains the commercial strip along Main Street, running along the railroad tracks; cotton warehouses a few blocks from the depot; and numerous houses from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, mostly to the north of the tracks. The commercial buildings are grouped in two blocks on the eastern end of main street.
Alabama and Tennessee River Rail Road Company was incorporated under act of Alabama on March 4, 1848. [2] With John Anderson Dilliard being principal shareholder. J. A. Dilliard a LaGrange, Tennessee, native originally from Decatur, AL was also a principal owner in the Lagrange and Memphis Railroad which became the Memphis and Charleston Railroad, along with Joseph Dilliard and H.B. Di
The Memphis and Charleston Railroad, completed in 1857, was the first railroad in the United States to link the Atlantic Ocean with the Mississippi River. [2] Chartered in 1846, [ 3 ] the 311 miles (501 km) 5 ft ( 1,524 mm ) [ 4 ] gauge railroad ran from Memphis, Tennessee , to Stevenson, Alabama , through the towns of Corinth, Mississippi ...
The system was originally chartered in 1854 as the Charleston and Savannah Railroad.The C&S RR established and operated a 120-mile (190 km) 5 ft (1,524 mm) [1] gauge rail line from Charleston, South Carolina, to Savannah, Georgia, connecting two of the most important port cities in the antebellum southeastern United States.
Charleston appears on a 1911 Rand McNally map of the county, located east-northeast of Buffalo, Oklahoma. [3] At its height, the town had two churches, a school, two general stores, a blacksmith shop and a livery stable, with a population of about 100. [2] However, the town was bypassed by the railroad, and its population declined in the 1920s. [2]
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Three men are facing misdemeanor assault charges after a group of white men attacked a Black dock worker during a brawl in Montgomery, Alabama, on Saturday.
The Stevenson Historic District is a historic district in Stevenson, Alabama, United States.The town was founded in the 1850s at the junction of the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad (now the Louisville and Nashville Railroad) and the Memphis and Charleston Railroad (later part of the Southern Railway and today Norfolk Southern).