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The Logansport, Peoria and Burlington Railroad continued as part of a line to the U.S. West, bypassing Chicago, on a route that later became the Toledo, Peoria and Western Railway. 1868 map of the Columbus, Chicago and Indiana Central Railway Share of the Columbus, Chicago and Indiana Central Railway Company, issued 21 August 1868
With its extensive river system, the United States supported a large array of horse-drawn or mule-drawn barges on canals and paddle wheel steamboats on rivers that competed with railroads after 1815 until the 1870s. The canals and steamboats lost out because of the dramatic increases in efficiency and speed of the railroads, which could go ...
1832 – 1832 United States presidential election: Andrew Jackson reelected president; Martin Van Buren elected vice president. 1832 – Jackson vetoes the charter renewal of the Second Bank of the United States, bringing to a head the Bank War and ultimately leading to the Panic of 1837. December 28, 1832 – Calhoun resigns as vice president.
1795–96 & 1799–1804 or '05 — In 1795, Charles Bulfinch, the architect of Boston's famed State House first employed a temporary funicular railway with specially designed dumper cars to decapitate 'the Tremont's' Beacon Hill summit and begin the decades long land reclamation projects which created most of the real estate in Boston's lower elevations of today from broad mud flats, such as ...
The longest zip-line in Europe, at 2,300 metres (7,500 ft), is the Sternsauser in Hoch-Ybrig, Switzerland. [38] The Zip World Bethesda line in Penrhyn Quarry, Bethesda, Wales holds the world record for attaining the fastest zip-line travel speed. [39] [40]
State Line was originally called Middleburg, and under the latter name laid out in 1812, and named for its location between Greencastle and Hagerstown, Maryland. [3] The present name comes from the fact that the community is located on the Maryland-Pennsylvania state line. [3] A post office called State Line was established in 1830. [4]
Reading between the lines : Creeks, slaves, and settlers on the borders of the U.S. South, 1790s–1820s (PhD). Yale University. Pfister, Jude M. (2007). Constitutional development in the United States Supreme Court during the 1790s (PhD). Drew University. Galluzzo, Anthony Michael (2008).
The 13 British North American provinces of Virginia, Massachusetts Bay, Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Delaware, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia united as the United States of America declare their independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain on ...