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On April 1, 1830, a double-tracked 3,800-foot (1,200 m)-long railroad was in full operation. By 1833, this railroad had been completed to Hamburg, South Carolina for a total length of 137 miles (220 km). At that time, it was the longest railroad in the world. This was the first railroad to use steam locomotives regularly.
Jason Gould (/ ɡ uː l d /; May 27, 1836 – December 2, 1892) was an American railroad magnate and financial speculator who founded the Gould business dynasty. He is generally identified as one of the robber barons of the Gilded Age. His sharp and often unscrupulous business practices made him one of the wealthiest men of the late nineteenth ...
Railroad track mileage tripled from 1860 to 1880, and then doubled again by 1920. ... clubs, and associations during the Gilded Age. American Art Association [167 ...
The Gilded Age was named for the practice of gilding, or covering surfaces with a thin, decorative layer of gold. Mark Twain coined the name as a criticism of the inequality that existed during ...
The Vanderbilt family is an American family who gained prominence during the Gilded Age.Their success began with the shipping and railroad empires of Cornelius Vanderbilt, and the family expanded into various other areas of industry and philanthropy.
The family's fortune was primarily earned through a railroad empire built by Jason "Jay" Gould, a notorious "robber baron" during the Gilded Age. At its height, this network comprised the Denver & Rio Grande, Missouri Pacific, Wheeling & Lake Erie, Wabash, Texas Pacific, Western Maryland and International-Great Northern railroads among others ...
Here are all of the historic houses featured in The Gilded Age—including The Breakers, ... of course—during the late 1800s, a time period known as the Gilded Age ...
The Elms was built in 1901 for a Gilded Age millionaire. Today, it's a museum and occasional film set for HBO's "The Gilded Age."