Porter traveled with Dr. James K. Hall to Texas in March 1882, hoping that a change of air would help alleviate a persistent cough he had developed.

Upon the arrival of the St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas Railroad in 1882, other towns such as Greenway, Rector and Piggott experienced growth.

* 1882 New York, Texas and Mexican Railway provides the first cross-country route to Rosenberg Junction in Fort Bend County.

* 1869 through 1882 Seminole Negro Indian Scouts ( mixed heritage Seminoles with African blood ) under John Lapham Bullis, namesake of Camp Bullis, defend the Texas border against Indian attack.

The first white child in Motley County, Nora Cooper, was born in 1882 near what is the now ghost town of Tee Pee City, a camp operated by buffalo hunters and later the headquarters of the Texas Rangers under Captain G. W.

Alfred S. Gage moved to the area in 1882 to help his brother ’ s ranching operation, founding the A. S. Gage Ranches, one of the largest ranching operations in Texas.

Joseph Daniel Jackson came to the area in 1882 as part of Company B of the Texas Rangers assigned to protect the railroad.

The Texas and St. Louis Railway Company completed track through Weiner and the St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railway ran through the center of the county in 1882, with the Kansas City, Ft. Scott, and Gulf Railroad opening service in east Poinsett County the following year.

* Dallas Stoudenmire ( 1845 – 1882 ), successful City Marshal who tamed and controlled a remote, wild and violent town of El Paso, Texas ; became U. S. Marshal serving West Texas and New Mexico Territory just before his death

The Texas and St. Louis Railroad built through the area in 1882.

Paramore ’ s Texas & Saint Louis Railway ( later the Cotton Belt ) and Gould ’ s St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway ( later the Missouri Pacific ) intersected here in 1882.

The Texas and St. Louis Railway was built through Brinkley in 1882.

Troy was established around a railroad station of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad in 1882.

B. Groom, an experienced cattleman near Lexington, Kentucky, leased from the New York and Texas Land Company of land in Hutchinson, Carson, Gray, and Roberts Counties in the Texas Panhandle in 1882, resulting in the organization of the Francklyn Land and Cattle Company.

In 1882 the New York, Texas and Mexican Railway Company established a railroad track between Rosenberg and Victoria, which passed through Kendleton.

Quinlan was first known as Roberts, after Texas governor O. M. Roberts, who on October 26, 1882, sold of land in southern Hunt County to the Texas Central Railroad.

Originally named Jones City, the town was renamed Anson in 1882 in honor of Anson Jones, the last president of the Republic of Texas.

The West Texas, Kimble County's first newspaper, began publishing in 1882.

The Fort Worth and Denver Railway arrived in 1882, the same year the city became the county seat of Wichita County, Texas.

The town was founded in 1883 by a group of white settlers who had arrived in Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory in 1882 from Gainesville, Texas, led by Confederate Army veteran Doctor John Trigg Gilmore, his wife, Elizabeth Louise Oliveaux, their children, and relatives William and George McCall, with their respective families.

Both communities became stations on the Missouri – Kansas – Texas Railroad ( Katy Railroad ) in 1882.

In 1882, Canadian Pacific transmitted its first commercial telegram over telegraph lines they had erected alongside its tracks, breaking Western Union's monopoly.

* 1882 – War of the Pacific: Chile suffers its last military defeat in the Battle of La Concepción when a garrison of 77 men is annihilated by a 1, 300-strong Peruvian force, many of them armed with spears.

* 1882 – The Pacific Stock Exchange opens.

* In 1882 the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway connected Atchison, Kansas with the Southern Pacific Railroad at Deming, New Mexico, thus completing a second link to Los Angeles.

Holbrook was founded in 1881 or 1882, when the railroad was built, and named to honor the first chief engineer of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad.

The community was established as a siding of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, later known as the Santa Fe Railroad, in October 1882.

The crossing was installed in 1882 by the California Southern Railroad to cross the Southern Pacific Railroad ’ s tracks while building northward from San Diego.

The Pacific Coast Railway ( narrow gauge ) came to town in 1882, and trains ran through Nipomo until The Great Depression in the 1930s.

The turning point in the early history of the community was in 1882, with the arrival of the Greeley, Salt Lake and Pacific Railroad ( controlled by the Union Pacific ) linking Greeley and Fort Collins.

After several rough and tumble years of growth Pacific Junction was incorporated in 1882.

In 1882, with the county seat in Westmoreland and the Union Pacific Railroad built through Wamego, the town's population swiftly declined.

After the Little Falls and Dakota Railroad was completed in 1882, there was a sidetrack to a mill, called Flen's Landing or Flynn's Siding, with a depot and named for J. C. Flynn of Little Falls, a teacher in the Little Falls schools in the late 1870s ; later he was an inspector for the Northern Pacific Railroad and a representative in the state legislature.

Starbuck was platted in the spring of 1882, is a village of the Northern Pacific railway, adjoining the western end of Lake Minnewaska.

In July 1882 when Northern Pacific Railway contractors arrived the trading post was renamed ‘’ Clark City ’’ for contractor Heman Clark.

in 1882, Thomas Alexander traded land to the Northern Pacific Railway to start the town, and developed four buildings on main street.

The Northern Pacific Railroad arrived in 1882, connecting the town to the new city of Billings.

Taylor was founded in 1882 along the transcontinental rail line of the Northern Pacific Railway.

Valentine's name refers to the date of its founding in 1882 by a Southern Pacific Railroad construction crew: February 14.

The town of Fleming, Saskatchewan ( located on the Canadian Pacific Railway ) was named in his honour in 1882.

In 1882 Chile refused US mediation in the War of the Pacific.

The city started as a major junction on the Canadian Pacific Railway, and the Assiniboine River and was then incorporated in 1882.

On his return to Germany from his 1879 – 1882 Pacific expedition, Otto Finsch joined a small, informal group interested in German colonial expansion into the South Seas led by the banker, Adolph von Hansemann.