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1878 and railroad
In 1878, Ephraim Shay perfected his Shay locomotive, which was particularly effective in its ability to climb steep grades, maneuver sharp turns and manage imperfections in railroad tracks.
Despite political complications that arose from time to time ( such as an ill-fated scheme by the British Colonial Office to enforce a confederation in Southern Africa in 1878, and tensions with the Afrikaner-dominated Government of Transvaal over trade and railroad construction ), economic and social progress in the Cape Colony continued at a steady pace until the outbreak of the Anglo-Boer Wars in 1899.
The railroad reached Alamosa by 1878.
After the construction of a railroad bridge across the Vistula in 1878, Graudenz became a rapidly growing industrialized city as well as a district centre in 1900.
The Columbus and Bellefontaine railroad was incorporated in 1878 and had station points in the county at Marysville.
When the railroad came into McGehee in 1878 and continued south and southwest, people began to move into the area.
By 1878, the railroad service provided three trains a day between Cloverdale and Ferries of San Francisco Bay.
In 1878, American railroad legend Casey Jones got his first job with the railroad here, working as a telegrapher for the Mobile and Ohio Railroad.
By 1878 tourists could come by railroad from Berlin to the shores of Sinepuxent Bay across from the town.
A railroad station was named " McBride's Mill ", while the post office named " McBrides " opened on March 26, 1878 with McBride as the first postmaster.
In 1878, George I. Seney, a New York capitalist, secured control of large plots of railroad land in Dewald and Olney Townships.
Hector was founded in 1878 when the Hastings and Dakota Railway Company constructed the railroad on the north side of the original town site.
The city of Renville was platted in September 1878, when the railroad reached the area.
Key events in Novinger history include the arrival of the Quincy, Missouri & Pacific railroad and filing of the town plat by founder John C. Novinger in 1878, the establishment of a U. S. Post Office the next year, and the first shaft coal mine in 1883.
Instead the railroad laid its tracks seven miles east and set up the new town of Hastings, which in September 1878 won a five-year Great County Seat War and became the county seat.
The Chicago & Alton Hotel built in 1878, located on Main Street west of the railroad tracks is the oldest business in the City of Blue Springs.
In 1878 a railroad was built through Zelienople.
The area had been a campsite for cattlemen tending their herds between 1878 and the spring of 1882, when a town of tents was created by railroad workers and their families.
On March 13, 1878, the road's creditors formally signed an agreement transferring their bonds and control of the railroad to Hill's investment group.
many popping up around the new stations on the railroad finalized in 1878.
It was originally a part of the mainline of the BMT Brighton Beach Line and opened as part of that steam railroad line in 1878.
In 1858 the first railroad connecting Belgard to Köslin ( Koszalin ) and Schivelbein ( Świdwin ) was completed ; it was extended to Stargard and Neustettin ( Szczecinek ) in 1878.
* On July 2, 1878 steam railroad trains of the Brooklyn, Flatbush and Coney Island Railway began operations from Prospect Park to the Brighton Beach Hotel, which opened at the same time, located on Coney Island at the Atlantic Ocean at the foot of modern-day Coney Island Avenue at The Boardwalk.

1878 and purchased
Sweden purchased the small Caribbean island of Saint Barthélemy from France in 1784, then sold it back in 1878 ; the population had included slaves until they were freed by the Swedish government in 1847.
In 1878, the company was sold off to out-of-state owners and renamed the Oswego Iron Company, and in 1882, Portland financiers Simeon Gannett Reed and Henry Villard purchased the business and renamed it the Oregon Iron and Steel Company.
In 1878 the county purchased a 10-ton safe for the treasury, that eventually was moved into courthouse.
However, there was a Mr. Cone who together with his partner a Mr. Houghton had purchased a proved homestead in what is now Page Springs from Benjamin Coppel in 1878, farmed a year and then rented the property to a family from Arkansas.
In 1878 land belonging to the Washington Township, of Alameda County were purchased by The Pacific Land Investment Company, this area was then subdivided into the Newark town-site. The population of this newly developing suburban area did not exceed more that one hundred residents.
Wells purchased the Palestine Farm from Benjamin Franklin Guy in 1878 and 1879 and continued the farm's dairy operations until 1903.
In 1878 the county purchased a 10-ton safe for the treasury, that eventually was moved into courthouse.
The Hastings Gazette ( April 10, 1878 ) affirms that NFW and brothers " purchased 5 sections of RR land, Codington County, Dakota Territory ..." NFW then went to Chicago to set up a town depot and repair destroyed tracks.
Rancher Joseph M. Pomeroy purchased the land in 1864, and platted the town's site in May 1878.
The settlement was established in 1878, when New York investor and financier William Whitewright Jr. ( b. 1815-d. 1898 ), for whom his family name was the community named, purchased a tract of land in the path of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, which was then extending its tracks across the county from Sherman to Greenville.
Edward Brook died in 1904 at Hoddom Castle, the house near Ecclefechan, south-west Scotland, which he had purchased in 1878.
J. H. Haverly in turn purchased Callender's troupe in 1878 and applied his strategy of enlarging troupe size and embellishing sets.
In 1878, the Templer Reisler purchased lands in Wadi Hunayn, planted an orchard, and lived there with his family.
In 1878, Joseph Pulitzer purchased the St. Louis Westliche Post, a German-American newspaper where he had worked, and the St. Louis Dispatch, and merged the two papers to be called the St. Louis Post and Dispatch, which was shortened to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
In 1878 it was purchased by John Hargreaves, Master of the South Berks Hunt, who founded a course where hunt and yeomanry ( similar to modern hunter chases ) races were run.
* 1878 – The club purchased Clee Park as their home ground
* was an armoured corvette built for the Ottoman Empire but purchased by the Royal Navy in 1878 and launched in 1879.
Dight then further subdivided the land into 12 hectare lots and in 1878 Edwin Trenerry, a Cornwall-based property developer, purchased a large portion of Dight s Paddock for his nephew Fredrick Trenerry Brown and proceeded to further subdivide it for a residential estate.
Unable to purchase Martini-Henry rifles from the British because their entire production was going to rearming British troops, Turkey purchased identical ( to the Mark I ) weapons from the Providence Tool Company in Providence, Rhode Island, USA ( the manufacturers of the predecessor Peabody rifle and used them effectively against the Russians in the Russo-Turkish War ( 1877 – 1878 ).
The Academy Building was built in 1803 and purchased by the university in 1878.
By 1879 this issue had been solved, with the direct railway opened and the M & HBUR purchased by the government in 1878.
The other is now known as Tooting Bec Common After inclosure, the Common was purchased for use as a public open space under the powers conferred under the Metropolitan Commons Act 1878.
Army Ordnance also purchased a number of M1902 Colt 45 revolvers ( The M1902 was actually Colt's New Double Action Army Model 1878, a. 45-caliber rod-ejector double-action revolver ) for issue to officers deploying overseas.
" Also, the McFarland State Historic Park in Florence, Arizona, contains a preserved courthouse and other buildings from when Arizona was just a territory in 1878 that McFarland purchased and donated to the Arizona State Parks Board.

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