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name change to St. Louis, San Francisco and New Orleans Railroad: Arkansas and Oklahoma Railroad: SLSF: 1898 1901 St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad: Arkansas Valley and Western Railway: SLSF: 1902 1907 St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad: Arkansas Western Railroad: KCS: 1899 1904 Arkansas Western Railway: Arkansas Western Railway: ARW KCS ...
When Clay County was created as Arkansas's 67th county on 24 March 1873 (along with Baxter County), it was named Clayton County, after John M. Clayton, then a member of the Arkansas Senate and a brother of then-U.S. Senator Powell Clayton, [3] though some sources suggest it may have been named for Powell Clayton instead.
In order to comply with Louisiana laws Stilwell, William S. Taylor, E. L. Martin, and others, officers of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Trust Company of Kansas City, Missouri, as well as the KCP&G, incorporated the Kansas City, Shreveport & Gulf Railway Company (KCS&G) on September 27, 1894, to build or acquire railroads in Louisiana. The ...
They were forced out through Jay Gould's railroad monopoly. [1] [2] In 1883 the railway was acquired by Jay Gould, becoming part of a 9,547-mile (15,364 km) system. On May 12, 1917, the company was officially merged into the Missouri Pacific Railroad, which in turn was merged into the Union Pacific Railroad between 1982 and 1997.
Route of the Lewis and Clark expedition. The first land route across the present-day contiguous United States was mapped by the Lewis and Clark Expedition between 1804 and 1806, following these 1803 instructions from President Thomas Jefferson to Meriwether Lewis: "The object of your mission is to explore the Missouri river, and such principal stream of it, as, by its course and communication ...
Clever is located on the Springfield Plateau of the Missouri Ozarks, 14.5 miles (23.3 km) southwest of Springfield at an elevation of 1,398 feet (426 m). The town lies in the western panhandle of Christian County, just south of Missouri Highway 14 between Nixa and Billings.
On May 11, 1941, Missouri Pacific inaugurated the Delta Eagle, the railroad's first diesel-powered streamlined train serving Arkansas. This train operated between Memphis, Tennessee and Tallulah, Louisiana via the Yancopin bridge.
Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad: Des Moines, Indianola and Missouri Railroad: RI: 1870 1876 Iowa Southern and Missouri Northern Railroad: Des Moines, Iowa Falls and Northern Railway: RI: 1899 1908 St. Paul and Des Moines Railroad: Des Moines and Kansas City Railway: CB&Q: 1888 1898 Keokuk and Western Railroad: Des Moines and Knoxville ...