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The Louisville and Nashville Railroad Train Station is a restored railroad station in Clarksville, Tennessee. It was opened by the Memphis, Clarksville and Louisville Railroad in 1859. [ 1 ]
The Memphis, Clarksville and Louisville Railroad (MC&L) was a railway in the southern United States.It was chartered in Tennessee in 1852, and opened in 1859. The MC&L entered receivership after the American Civil War, and financial troubles led to an 11-day strike in 1868 that ended when Louisville and Nashville Railroad (L&N) leased the line.
Tennessee Central Railroad: Tennessee Southern Railroad: IC: 1881 1884 Louisville, New Orleans and Texas Railway: Tennessee State Line Railroad: SOU: 1882 1886 East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad: Tennessee Valley Railroad: SOU: 1887 1888 East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway: Tennessee Western Railroad: L&N: 1912 1939 N/A ...
Railroad service came to the town on October 1, 1859, in the form of the Memphis, Clarksville and Louisville Railroad. The line later connected to other railroads at Paris, Tennessee and at Guthrie, Kentucky. By the start of the Civil War, the combined population of the city and the county was 20,000.
The Battle of Riggins Hill (September 7, 1862) was a minor engagement in western Tennessee during the American Civil War.A Confederate raiding force under Colonel Thomas Woodward captured Clarksville, Tennessee, threatening Union shipping on the Cumberland River.
The above-named company was incorporated July 14, 1885, through filing with the secretary of state of the State of Tennessee an agreement dated August 20, 1884, for the consolidation of the Mobile, Clarksville & Evansville Railroad Company; the Princeton and Ohio River Railroad Company; and The Indiana, Alabama and Texas Railroad Company (of 1881).
Memphis and Charleston Railroad; Memphis, Clarksville and Louisville Railroad; Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad; Mississippi Central Railroad (1852–74) Mississippi and Tennessee RailNet; Missouri Pacific Railroad; Mobile and Ohio Railroad; Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City Railroad
He was appointed President of the Memphis, Clarksville and Louisville Railway Company, and helped oversee the construction of railroad lines in Tennessee and Kentucky. His brother, James Minor Quarles, was a United States Congressman representing Tennessee from 1859 until 1861 when the state seceded from the Union.