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The written history of Iowa begins with the proto-historic accounts of Native ... By 1850, there were 192,214 ... Don L. Steel Trails Of Hawkeyeland: Iowa's Railroad ...
The Illinois Central Railroad and Its Colonization Work (1934) online; Gates, Paul Wallace. “The Promotion of Agriculture by the Illinois Central Railroad, 1855-1870.” Agricultural History 5#2 (1931), pp. 57–76. online; Greever, William S. "A Comparison of Railroad Land-Grant Policies." Agricultural History 25.2 (1951): 83–90. online
The Chicago, Iowa and Nebraska Railroad Company was a 'land grant railroad' organized in 1855 in conjunction with the Iowa Land Co. in Clinton, Iowa.As the name indicates, its plan was to build across Iowa and cross the Missouri river but it had only reached Cedar Rapids by 1859 when it ran out of money.
The Iowa railroads at Clinton were the Chicago, Iowa & Nebraska (CI&N) and the Cedar Rapids & Missouri River (CR&MR). The CI&N began laying rail to Cedar Rapids in 1857 while the CR&MR was organized in 1859 to build the rest of the way to Council Bluffs. The CI&N bridge from Fulton to Little Rock Island on the Illinois side of the river ...
Burlington and Missouri River Railroad, 1882. The Burlington and Missouri River Railroad (B&MR) or sometimes (B&M) was an American railroad company incorporated in Iowa in 1852, with headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska. It was developed to build a railroad across the state of Iowa and began operations in 1856.
Keokuk, Iowa City and Minnesota Railroad: Iowa and Omaha Short Line Railway: 1908 1916 N/A Iowa Pacific Railroad: CGW: 1870 1879 Dubuque and Dakota Railroad, Mason City and Fort Dodge Railroad: Iowa River Railway: MSTL: 1868 1869 Central Railroad of Iowa: Iowa and St. Louis Railway: CB&Q: 1901 1903 Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad: Iowa ...
The sweet smile of an elderly Kathryn Bartosky mixing donuts in her kitchen greets you on page 131 of Tom Schulein’s just-released book covering 185 years of Iowa City history.
Civil Bend, Iowa was a village established in 1850 located in the western part of Benton Township in Fremont County, near the present-day town of Percival on the Missouri River in the U.S. State of Iowa. [1] It was a noted station on the Underground Railroad, and a stop along the Lane Trail. [2]