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The Collection was originally on display in Toowoomba at the premises of Cobb & Co. Limited, Mr Bolton's road transport company, from 1965 until 1981. Jenny Cardell, Mr Bolton's daughter, and her husband, Adrian Cardell, purchased the Collection through their company Banks Pty. Ltd. in 1980. [ 5 ]
Rhoden's Halfway House, Old Gippstown, built in 1863 at Pakenham for the Cobb & Co Gippsland route The original Cobb & Co was established in Melbourne in 1853 at the height of the excitement created by the Victorian goldrushes by four newly arrived Americans – Freeman Cobb, John Murray Peck, James Swanton and John B. Lamber.
St. Louis and Gulf Railway: Illinois Central Railroad: IC IC 1902 1972 Illinois Central Gulf Railroad: Illinois Central Gulf Railroad: ICG 1972 Illinois and St. Louis Bridge Company: 1868 1878 St. Louis Bridge Company: Illinois Southern Railway: MP: 1903 1920 Missouri–Illinois Railroad: I&M Rail Link: IMRL 1997 2002 Iowa, Chicago and Eastern ...
The Metro East is an urban area in Southern Illinois, United States that contains the eastern and northern urban, suburban, and exurban areas on the Mississippi River in Greater St. Louis. It encompasses eight Illinois counties and constitutes the second-most populous metropolitan area in Illinois .
St. Louis and Illinois Belt Railway: ITC: 1905 1937 Illinois Terminal Railroad: St. Louis and Illinois Bridge Company: 1865 1868 Illinois and St. Louis Bridge Company: St. Louis, Indianapolis and Eastern Railroad: IC: 1889 1899 Illinois and Eastern Railroad: St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway: MP: 1901 1917 Missouri Pacific Railroad ...
National City had its beginnings as a business investment by East-Coast venture capitalists in the early 1870s. [2] East St. Louis mayor John Bowman had envisioned a new stockyard operation in East. St. Louis that would rival the famous Union Stock Yards in Chicago and make the stockyards in nearby St. Louis minor by comparison, and he approached a group of wealthy investors about establishing ...
Freeman Cobb (10 October 1830 – 24 May 1878) [1] was an American, born in Brewster, Massachusetts, who established the Cobb & Co stagecoach company in 1853, with partners John Murray Peck, James Scanlon and John B. Lamber.
The Downtown East St. Louis Historic District is a historic commercial district in downtown East St. Louis, Illinois. The district includes 35 buildings, 25 of which are contributing buildings, along Collinsville Avenue, Missouri Avenue, and St. Louis Avenue; all but one of the buildings was historically used for commercial purposes. While ...