In 1848 Roebling undertook the construction of four suspension aqueducts on the Delaware and Hudson Canal.

* Thomas Cole, the founder of the Hudson River School of painting lived in Catskill from 1827 until his death in 1848.

The Hudson River Railroad reached Ossining in 1848, opening the village up to industrial development along the waterfront and allowing farmers inland to ship their produce to the markets of New York City.

The Paterson and Ramapo Railroad and Union Railroad opened in 1848, providing a connection between the Erie at the village of Suffern in Ramapo and Jersey City, across the Hudson River from New York City.

* Michigan State Capitol " Middle Village / Town ", where downtown Lansing now stands, was the last of the three villages to develop in 1848 with the completion of the Michigan Avenue bridge across the Grand River and the completion of the temporary capitol building which sat where Cooley Law School stands today on Capitol Avenue in between Allegan and Washtenaw Streets, and finally the relocation of the post office to the village in 1851.

It was in here on January 28, 1848 that James Marshall met privately with Sutter in order to show Sutter the gold that Marshall had found during the construction of Sutter's sawmill along the American River only four days earlier.

With colonial policy shifts, the region changed into the Orange River Sovereignty ( 1848 – 1854 ) and eventually the Orange Free State Republic ( 1854 – 1902 ).

One of the better known ferries was the Mormon Ferry across the North Platte near the future site of Fort Caspar in Wyoming which operated between 1848 and 1852 and the Green River ferry near Fort Bridger which operated from 1847 to 1856.

In January 1848, James Marshall discovered a small nugget of gold in the American River, sparking the California Gold Rush.

1848 ) is about from the Missouri River, and the trail and its many offshoots nearly all converged close to Fort Kearny as they followed the Platte River west.

Starting in about 1848 the South Alternate of Oregon Trail ( also called the Snake River Cutoff ) was developed as a spur off the main trail.

It was finished in 1848 when Chicago Mayor James Hutchinson Woodworth presided over its opening ; and it allowed boat transportation from the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico.

On January 24, 1848 James W. Marshall, a foreman working for Sacramento pioneer John Sutter, found shiny metal in the tailrace of a lumber mill Marshall was building for Sutter on the American River.

On Russian maps, the short narrowest section of the strait ( south of the mouth of the Amur ) is called Nevelskoy Strait, after Admiral Gennady Nevelskoy, who explored the area in 1848 ; the body of water north of there, into which the Amur River flows, is the Amur Liman ; and the name of " Strait of Tartary " is reserved for the largest section of the body of water, south of Nevelskoy Strait.

In 1848 Nevelskoy led the expedition in the Russian Far East, exploring the area of the Sakhalin and the outlet of the Amur River.

Extending between the Orange and Vaal rivers, its borders were determined by the United Kingdom in 1848 when the region was proclaimed as the Orange River Sovereignty, with a seat of a British Resident in Bloemfontein.

At the time of the United States conquest in 1848, the new government changed the name to Kings River.

Among the towns located in Andrew County are Amazonia, once on the Missouri River, now inland, laid out in 1857 near the site of Nodaway City, an early river port ; Fillmore, established in 1845 ; Whitesville, established in 1848 ; Rochester, established in 1848 ; Bolckow, established in 1868 ; Rosendale, established in 1869 ; Rea, established in 1877 ; Helena, established in 1878 ; and Cosby, established in 1882.

The Farmington Canal, connecting New Haven with Northampton, Massachusetts, passed through the Farmington River on its eastern bank and was in operation between 1828 and 1848.

Isaac M. Dimond came to the area in 1848 and, as one of his enterprises, in 1850 began to construct a dam, just east of Silver Creek on the Grand River near the center of section 15.

In 1848, George and Henry Niver built a saw mill on the banks of the Flint River and the place became known as " Niverville ".

The Rucker-Stanton House on West River Road was built in 1848 by the great-grandson of William Macomb.

Way's Packet Dictionary, 1848 – 1994: Passenger Steamboats of the Mississippi River System Since the Advent of Photography in Mid-Continent America.

* James W. Marshall ( 1810 – 85 ), sawmill operator, whose 1848 discovery of gold in the American River in California set the stage for the California Gold Rush.

Later, Joseph Rogers settled near the Willamette River at what is now Newberg in 1848.

The first Mormon pioneer settlers, Joseph and Susanna Harker from England built a log cabin on the west side of the Jordan River in November 1848 on what was called then “ the Church Farm ” near 3300 South.

George Robert Aberigh-Mackay ( July 25, 1848 – January 12, 1881 ), Anglo-Indian writer, son of a Bengal chaplain, was educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford and Cambridge University.

* 1848 – In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, The Boston Female Medical School ( which later merged with the Boston University School of Medicine ), opens.

These reforms included guarantees to ensure the Ottoman subjects perfect security for their lives, honour, and property ; the introduction of the first Ottoman paper banknotes ( 1840 ) and opening of the first post offices ( 1840 ); the reorganization of the finance system according to the French model ( 1840 ); the reorganization of the Civil and Criminal Code according to the French model ( 1840 ); the establishment of the Meclis-i Maarif-i Umumiye ( 1841 ) which was the prototype of the First Ottoman Parliament ( 1876 ); the reorganization of the army and a regular method of recruiting, levying the army, and fixing the duration of military service ( 1843 – 44 ); the adoption of an Ottoman national anthem and Ottoman national flag ( 1844 ); the first nationwide Ottoman census in 1844 ( only male citizens were counted ); the first national identity cards ( officially named the Mecidiye identity papers, or informally kafa kağıdı ( head paper ) documents, 1844 ); the institution of a Council of Public Instruction ( 1845 ) and the Ministry of Education ( Mekatib-i Umumiye Nezareti, 1847, which later became the Maarif Nezareti, 1857 ); the abolition of slavery and slave trade ( 1847 ); the establishment of the first modern universities ( darülfünun, 1848 ), academies ( 1848 ) and teacher schools ( darülmuallimin, 1848 ); establishment of the Ministry of Healthcare ( Tıbbiye Nezareti, 1850 ); the Commerce and Trade Code ( 1850 ); establishment of the Academy of Sciences ( Encümen-i Daniş, 1851 ); establishment of the Şirket-i Hayriye which operated the first steam-powered commuter ferries ( 1851 ); the first European style courts ( Meclis-i Ahkam-ı Adliye, 1853 ) and supreme judiciary council ( Meclis-i Ali-yi Tanzimat, 1853 ); establishment of the modern Municipality of Istanbul ( Şehremaneti, 1854 ) and the City Planning Council ( İntizam-ı Şehir Komisyonu, 1855 ); the abolition of the capitation ( Jizya ) tax on non-Muslims, with a regular method of establishing and collecting taxes ( 1856 ); non-Muslims were allowed to become soldiers ( 1856 ); various provisions for the better administration of the public service and advancement of commerce ; the establishment of the first telegraph networks ( 1847 – 1855 ) and railroads ( 1856 ); the replacement of guilds with factories ; the establishment of the Ottoman Central Bank ( originally established as the Bank-ı Osmanî in 1856, and later reorganized as the Bank-ı Osmanî-i Şahane in 1863 ) and the Ottoman Stock Exchange ( Dersaadet Tahvilat Borsası, established in 1866 ); the Land Code ( Arazi Kanunnamesi, 1857 ); permission for private sector publishers and printing firms with the Serbesti-i Kürşad Nizamnamesi ( 1857 ); establishment of the School of Economical and Political Sciences ( Mekteb-i Mülkiye, 1859 ); the Press and Journalism Regulation Code ( Matbuat Nizamnamesi, 1864 ); among others.

Significant events in the early development of rugby football were the production of the first set of written football laws at Rugby School in 1845, which was followed by the ' Cambridge Rules ' drawn up in 1848.

* National Boys ' School ( c. 1823-c. 1830 and 1848 – 1874 )

* Astbury School and Masters House Congleton ( 1848 )

* Christ Church School, Alsager, Cheshire ( 1848 )

Known originally as the Lewisburg High School, it became in 1848 the Academical and Primary Department of the University at Lewisburg.

In 1848, the Czarist government created the Vilna Rabbinical School and Teachers ' Seminary.

In 1848, Broca became prosector of anatomy at the University of Paris Medical School, the youngest person ever appointed to the position.

He attended Birmingham's King Edward VI grammar school from 1844 and the Birmingham School of Art from 1848 to 1852, before studying theology at Exeter College, Oxford.

He was the architect in the improvement of several local schools, including Uttoxeter National School, Hanbury Free School, enlarged in 1848 ; Oakamoor N. S., Cauldon Low N. S., Alton N. S., and Draycott in Hanbury School.

In the fall of 1848, Pierpont transferred to the Hartford Public School and then to the Episcopal Academy in Cheshire, Connecticut, ( now called Cheshire Academy ), boarding with the principal.

The son of William Morley Stubbs, a solicitor, he was born at Knaresborough, Yorkshire, and was educated at Ripon Grammar School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated in 1848, obtaining a first-class in Literae Humaniores and a third in mathematics.

He studied at the Old Grammar School of Hamilton ( renamed in 1848 The Hamilton Academy ), then, in 1726, began a General Studies arts course at the University of Glasgow.

Founded in 1848, ' BZ ', as the society is called often, is the oldest of the societies of the now-defunct Sheffield Scientific School, the institution which from 1854-1956 was the sciences and engineering college of Yale University.

Cambuslang Subscription School 1848, now a Gospel Hall The Cambuslang Subscription School of 1848 provided basic education to the children of miners and weavers in return for a few coppers.