The history of the 19th Century in the valley, revolved about the Gotthard road ( built 1820-30 ) and the Gotthard Rail Tunnel ( 1871 – 1881 ).

Between 1871 and 1881, Airolo was home to many workers on the Gotthard rail tunnel.

In 1871, the Intercolonial Railway of Canada chose Moncton to be its headquarters, and Moncton remained a railroad town for well over a century until the closure of the Canadian National Railway ( CNR ) locomotive shops in the late 1980s.

Moncton's economic depression did not last long and a second era of prosperity came to the area in 1871 when Moncton was selected to be the headquarters of the Intercolonial Railway of Canada ( ICR ).

As part of British Columbia's 1871 agreement to join Canadian Confederation, the government had agreed to build the Canadian Pacific Railway, a transcontinental railway linking the Pacific Province to the eastern provinces.

All three companies were operated by and absorbed into the London and North Western Railway by 1871.

* 1871 Houston and Texas Central Railway completes track to Austin.

In 1871, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway extended a main line from Emporia to Newton.

In 1871, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway extended a main line from Emporia to Newton.

In 1871, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway extended a main line from Emporia to Newton.

The Texas and Pacific Railway was chartered by the United States Congress in 1871 to build a southern transcontinental railroad.

In 1871, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway built a main line east-west through Cedar Grove.

In 1871, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway built a main line east-west through Elmdale.

In 1871, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway extended a main line from Emporia westward to Newton by July 1871.

B. Corbett and V. Harbaugh, leaders of a colony from Ohio, founded Bunker Hill at a site on the Kansas Pacific Railway in the summer of 1871.

The Western Maryland Railway built its main railroad line to Thurmont in 1871, connecting the town with Baltimore, and later with Hagerstown and Cumberland.

After construction was complete, The Holly, Wayne and Monroe Railway merged into the Flint and Pere Marquette system, May 30, 1871.

The arrival of the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway in 1871 marked the decline of Carver's importance, as cargo and passenger traffic quickly shifted to the new mode of transportation.

The town went through six quick name changes after 1871 until, in 1872, it was finally named after Thomas Hawley Canfield, an officer in the Northern Pacific Railway, which laid out the town.

All three towns appeared on the map in 1871, though Bigelow remained nothing more than that-a spot on a map-until the spring of 1872, when the tracks of the St. Paul & Sioux City Railway reached the site of the present-day town.

When a route for the St. Paul and Sioux City Railway was surveyed in 1871, it was located far south of the Graham Lakes region.

In December 1871 the state of Minnesota granted all odd numbered sections of land extending along the proposed right-of-way of the St. Paul & Sioux City Railway Company to that company.

He later became postmaster and town depot agent for the new Atlanta and Richmond Air Line Railway, which was constructed in 1871.

In 1871, when the Houston and Texas Central Railway was planned through the area, Longbotham sold the right of way for five dollars.

The city itself was founded in 1871 when the Houston and Texas Central Railway came to the area.

By 1871 L. C. Orvis, manager of the `` Western Union Telegraph Company '', expressed willingness to send emergency telegrams on Sundays from his Village drugstore.

In 1871, she married James George Skelton Anderson ( d. 1907 ) of the Orient Steamship Company co-owned by his uncle Arthur Anderson, but she did not give up her medical practice.

Quincy Adams Shaw and his brother-in-law Henry Higginson became major investors in the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company, and Shaw was the first president of the company and retained that position until 1871, when Agassiz's son Alexander Agassiz took over.

The term vaudeville, referring specifically to North American variety entertainment, came into common usage after 1871 with the formation of Sargent's Great Vaudeville Company of Louisville, Kentucky.

Birmingham was founded on June 1, 1871, by the Elyton Land Company whose investors included cotton planters, bankers and railroad entrepreneurs.

* David Thompson ( businessman ) ( 1798 – 1871 ), President of New York Life Insurance & Trust Company

Perhaps in one of history's ironies, another resident of Venango County about the same time as Henry and Abbie Rogers was a little girl named Ida M. Tarbell, whose father was an independent producer whose small business was ruined by the South Improvement Company scheme of 1871 and the conglomerate which became Standard Oil.

In 1871, the Marysville Cheese Manufacturing Company was built on the eastside.

The copper mines were particularly rich ; the Boston-based Calumet and Hecla Mining Company produced more than half of the USA's copper from 1871 through 1880.

The Gilbert Clock Company, located along the Still River north of town, was founded in 1871 by William L. Gilbert ( 1806 ‑ 1890 ) and became one of the largest clock companies in the world at the turn of the century.

* James I. Farley ( 1871 – 1948 ), member of US House of Representatives, 1933 – 1939, lived in Auburn while an executive of the Auburn Automobile Company and is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery.

In 1871, W. C. Wilson of Webster City opened a coal mine in Lehigh and formed the Crooked Creek Railroad and Coal Company.

Among other heavy institutions at that time, was the King Bridge Manufacturing Company, which located the Bridge shops at Iola, in 1871.

In 1871, the Great Bend Town Company, anticipating the westward construction of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, founded Great Bend at a site roughly three miles west of Fort Zarah on the Santa Fe Trail.

In 1871, The National Land Company surveyed and planned the first town there, naming it Bosland in the hopes of attracting the cattle trade.

It was first laid out in 1871 by Levi Garwood, who named it for C. Wakelee, the first treasurer of the Peninsular Railroad Company ( later part of Grand Trunk Western Railroad ), which built a depot there.

In the spring of 1871, the Arapahoe Town Company was formed in Plattsmouth, Nebraska, under the leadership of Captain E. B. Murphy, for the purpose of establishing a settlement in the Republican River valley.

In 1871, the St. Paul & Sioux CityRailway Company decided to connect those two cities with a ribbon of steel.

The Paterson and Haledon Horse Rail Road Company, formed in 1871, laid trolley tracks from Paterson along the current-day Belmont Avenue, which were electrified by 1888.

In 1871, the Marysville Cheese Manufacturing Company was built on the east side.

The Sharpsburg Borough Volunteer Fire Department has continuously served the Borough since it was first organized on August 29, 1871, with the creation of the Hook and Ladder Company by W. C. Meyer.

In 1871, the Susquehanna Coal Company, owned by the Pennsylvania Railroad, took control of both the Harvey Mine and the Grand Tunnel, although James Hutchison stayed on as mine boss.

Between 1866 and 1871, the Jefferson Branch, a railroad spur of the D & H Canal Company., was built in Forest Mills.

The Railroad Company started to build rail lines from Pittsburgh in 1857, to Canonsburg in 1869, finally completed to Washington in 1871.