Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Land-Grant Brewing Co. – Columbus [241] Loose Rail Brewing [242] – Canal Winchester; The Lot Beer Co. – Granville [243] Nocterra Brewing Company [244] – Powell; North High Brewing – Columbus [245] North High Brewing [246] – Dublin; Nostalgia Brewing Company [247] – Gahanna [248] Old Dog Alehouse [249] – Delaware
27 March – United States – Wheeling rail disaster – A loose rail results in two Baltimore and Ohio Railroad passenger cars tumbling down a cliff in West Virginia. 8 to 17 die and 39 are wounded. [60] [61] [62] 23 April – United States – A train runs through an open drawbridge over Rancocas Creek. No fatalities are reported. [63]
For the immediate time being, "B&O trains continued to run, with many interruptions and only with the consent of Virginia." [3] Colonel Jackson realized that Harper's Ferry held not only important arms production factories, but was a choke-hold on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, and key telegraph trunk lines connecting Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, D.C. to ...
The Ohio and Erie Canal brought passengers, freight and a means to transport grain to market. The first canal boat floated through Winchester in 1831. The village was named Canal Winchester when the post office was established in 1841, because there were five other locations in the state named Winchester. [6]
The Winchester depot immediately became a key economic hub serving merchant traders in Winchester for commodities such as wheat, hide, fur, tobacco and hemp. The north end of the rail line also served the thriving industrial town of Virginius Island, which sat astride the Shenandoah Canal on the south side of Harpers Ferry.
The Wagnalls Memorial, 150 E. Columbus Street, is hosting an Author Fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. There will be 20 children’s book authors and 20 adult book authors who will have books ...
Many who survived the crash burned to death in the wreckage. The accident killed approximately 92 of the 160 people aboard. It was the worst rail accident in the U.S. in the 19th century and the worst rail accident in U.S. history until the Great Train Wreck of 1918. It remains the third-deadliest rail accident in U.S. history.
During the late 1980s the Hocking acquired GP7 No. 5833 from the C&O, and in the early 1990s it was restored to its original as-delivered paint scheme. Charter trips to Canal Winchester, Ohio were also operating the early and mid-1990s over the remainder of the former C&O track now owned by the Indiana & Ohio Railway. But in 1995, the HVSR lost ...