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The Tunnel Hill State Trail is a bicycle trail running from Eldorado to Karnak, Illinois. The trail runs along the former bed of a part of the Cairo and Vincennes Railroad , a transportation unit led during its early years by Civil War General Ambrose Burnside .
Tunnel Hill is an unincorporated community in northwestern Johnson County, Illinois. It is best known for its namesake railroad tunnel that gives the name to the Tunnel Hill State Trail , a rails-to-trails project developed by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.
Tunnel Hill State Trail tunnel, abandoned rail tunnel, 543-foot-long (166 m) former Cairo and Vincennes Railroad tunnel now part of Tunnel Hill State Trail, used as a hiking and bike rail trail, between Tunnel Hill and Vienna in Johnson County; Van Buren Street Tunnel, streetcar tunnel, Van Buren Street under the Chicago River in Chicago, abandoned
The Sideling Hill and Rays Hill tunnels were bypassed by a 13-mile (21 km) new highway, as was the Cove Valley Travel Plaza, which was located on the westbound side of the eastern portal of the Sideling Hill Tunnel. Instead, a new Sideling Hill Travel Plaza was built to cater for travelers in both directions of the highway.
The community was first known as Doe Run. It was incorporated on March 4, 1848, as Tunnelsville, and changed its name in 1856 to Tunnel Hill. Both names refer to the nearby 1,497-foot (456 m) Chetoogeta Mountain Tunnel railroad tunnel cut through Chetoogeta Mountain, officially dedicated on October 31, 1849 by Etowah steel-maker Mark A. Cooper on behalf of the state-owned Western & Atlantic ...
Rays Hill Tunnel: Pennsylvania Turnpike (abandoned) Rays Hill: 3,532 feet (1,077 m) 1940 [50] Sideling Hill Tunnel: Pennsylvania Turnpike (abandoned) Sideling Hill: 6,782 feet (2,067 m) 1940 [50] Squirrel Hill Tunnel: Pittsburgh: I-376: Squirrel Hill: 4,225 feet (1,288 m) 1953 Spring Garden Street Tunnel: Philadelphia: Spring Garden Street ...
Many of the workers lived in housing on top of Stumphouse mountain called Tunnel Hill. By 1859, the State of South Carolina had spent over a million dollars on the tunnel and refused to spend any more on the project, therefore the tunnel work was abandoned. The tunnel had been excavated to a length of 1,617 feet of the planned 5,863 total feet.
Sherman ordered Corse's brigade, with a detachment from Joseph A.J. Lightburn's brigade, to attack along the narrow length of Tunnel Hill. Col. John M. Loomis's brigade, supported by Buschbeck, would move across the open fields on the west of the ridge while Brig. Gen. Giles Alexander Smith's brigade would move through the valley on the east ...