During the 1870s and 1890s, Puerto Rico did not have a national railroad system, but the city of Mayagüez did have a small passenger rail system for transporting its residents mainly along the Mendez Vigo Avenue.

* Lima Locomotive Works, manufacturer of railroad locomotives from the 1870s to the 1950s

During the 1870s, muskeg in Northern Ontario was reported to have swallowed a railroad engine whole when a track was laid on muskeg instead of clearing down to bedrock.

A labor riot at the mines in the late 1870s interrupted the flow of coal, and this combined with the poor financial state of the railroad led to the removal of most of the track by 1880 ; the remaining portion was removed a few years later.

When the county's rail lines were constructed in the 1860s and 1870s, additional communities evolved around railroad stops.

* Bowser Station — This community was a railroad stop in southern Licking Township, and had a post office during the 1870s.

* Dorsey Station — This Harrison Township community was a railroad stop, and had a post office during the 1870s.

With the new railroad line in place, timber could be shipped out of the mountains, and talc deposits, discovered in the 1870s, was able to be mined and the ore shipped throughout the country.

In the late 1860s and early 1870s, a major new railroad line was established through Southwest Arkansas.

The railroad also lured many German immigrants who moved to the area in the 1870s and 1880s, organizing the Catholic church and adding a sizable number of skilled laborers, craftsmen, and businessmen to the population.

In the early 1870s, Swedish natives settled in a railroad town called " Kings River Switch ".

When most of its population and business moved on with the railroad, the town settled into a lull until the early 1870s, when rich clay deposits of the Ione Formation were discovered nearby.

When a railroad came through Interlachen in the 1870s, the area opened up to settlers.

Iron ore was found in the area in the 1870s but it wasn't until the mid 1880s when the arrival of the railroad to the area opened it for more extensive exploration of the vast iron ore deposits.

Prewett, while serving as temporary sheriff of Pike County, was killed by outlaws in the early 1870s escorting a prisoner on the very railroad that made Magnolia a viable community.

During the 1870s the Commercial Hotel, south of the railroad depot, was one of the largest in Nebraska west of Lincoln.

The railroad made the first purchase of land through the reservation in the late 1870s, but no towns sprouted until William LaGorgue, who settled in southern Gage County, bought a large amount of the reservation.

Columbus grew and prospered during the 1870s, as a result of both expanding agriculture in Platte County and traffic on the railroad.

The city was founded by Dixon Durant, a Choctaw who lived in the area, after the MK & T railroad came through the Indian Territory in the early 1870s.

The name Seaside is derived from Seaside House, a historic summer resort built in the 1870s by railroad magnate Ben Holladay.

When the Southern Pacific railroad was built through the area in the 1870s, Cottage Grove station was placed more than half a mile northeast of the post office, on the east side of the river.

In the 1870s, Junction City was named by railroad magnate Ben Holladay, who decided this would be where the rail line on the east side of the Willamette Valley would meet the rail line on the west side.

A second railroad, the Peach Bottom Railway, was built in the 1870s from Oxford to Peach Bottom.

Bradley, who rescued a railroad chief engineer from a brawl in the town during the 1870s.

After that, Versailles was never again the seat of the capital of France, but the presence of the French Parliament there in the 1870s left a vast hall built in one aisle of the palace which is still used by the French Parliament when it meets in Congress to amend the French Constitution, as well as when the French president addresses the two chambers of the French Parliament.

In the early 1870s, the president of Belen College ( located in Havana, Cuba ), Benito Vines, developed the first hurricane forecasting system, and he mainly used the motion of these clouds in formulating his predictions.

Hinckley was conceived in the 1870s as the brainchild of Francis Hinckley, president of the Chicago and Iowa Railroad.

The debate between McCosh as president of the college and Charles Hodge, head of Princeton Seminary, during the late 1860s and 1870s exemplified the classic conflict between science and religion over the question of Darwin's evolution theory.

Franklin Benjamin Gowen ( February 9, 1836 – December 13, 1889 ) served as president of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad ( commonly referred to as the Reading Railroad ) in the 1870s and 1880s.

This was practised by the HRL and its successor, the Irish Parliamentary Party under Charles Stuart Parnell from the late 1870s.

For a time the Housatonic operated the Pittsfield and North Adams Railroad, running north from the Western Railroad east of Pittsfield to North Adams, but it was returned to the Boston and Albany Railroad, the successor to the Western, in the early 1870s.

In the 1870s there was a revival of interest in French forms, led by Andrew Lang, Austin Dobson, Edmund Gosse, W. E. Henley, John Payne, and others.

Austin Corbin, who developed Coney Island in the 1870s before he became the manager of the Long Island Railroad, built his summer residence along the shores of Deer Lake.

Lickey was populated rapidly from the 1870s onwards by professionals and industrialists such as Herbert Austin, who moved to Lickey Grange in 1910 and lived there until his death in 1941.

In the 1870s, he acquired the land that would become Meiners Oaks as payment for a debt.

Mr. Wakefield became interested in logging and real estate and acquired vast tracts of land in the western Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the 1870s and 1880s.

The Clutes acquired additional land from Herndon, who put it up for auction in the 1870s.

In the 1870s the Wilhelmi family of Hanover, Germany acquired the farm Driefontein No. 3.

It is likely that the term “ functions of state ” was used in a loose sense during the 1850s and 60s by those such as Rudolf Clausius, William Rankine, Peter Tait, William Thomson, and it is clear that by the 1870s the term had acquired a use of its own.

The Gate was acquired in the 1870s by the revived Order of St. John and was gradually converted to serve as headquarters of both the Order and its subsidiary, St. John Ambulance.

Throughout the 1870s and 1880s, Elmira acquired various cultural trappings, including a brass band ( 1873 ) and a library ( 1885 ), which boasted an initial membership of 20 people.

In the 1870s, the Fairmount Park Commission acquired industrial properties along the Wissahickon Creek although this is not considered Fairmount Park proper.

With the lease on Little Holland House nearing its end and the building soon to be demolished, in the early 1870s he commissioned a new London home nearby from CR Cockerell ( New Little Holland House, backing onto the estate of Lord Leighton ) and acquired a house at Freshwater on the Isle of Wight-his friends Julia Margaret Cameron and Lord Tennyson already had homes on the islands.

In 1870s, Dresdner Bank acquired smaller regional institutes and several banks.

Samtredia evolved as a town from a crucial railway junction in the 1870s and acquired a town status in 1921.

In 1867 the Illinois Central extended its track into Iowa, and during the 1870s and 1880s the IC acquired and expanded railroads in the southern United States.

In the 1870s, the Crown acquired the mountain and turned it into a state forest park.

The island was later acquired by Spain in 1843, as a result of an arrangement made by J. J. Lerena y Barry with Benga king Bonkoro I. Bonkoro I died in 1846 and was succeeded by his son Bonkoro II, but due to rivalries on the island, Bonkoro II moved to Sao Tome, and Munga I ruled in Corisco 1848 to 1858, his son Munga II taking over, and meeting the explorer Iradier in the 1870s.

In the 1870s, investors of the Kansas Pacific eventually acquired control of the railroad.

The tracks forming the West Saint John Spur were built as the Carleton, City of Saint John Branch Railroad in the early 1870s and acquired by CPR in the 1890s.

The shoe was originally, and often still is in parts of the United Kingdom, called a ' sand shoe ' and acquired the nickname ' plimsoll ' in the 1870s.

During the 1860s and early 1870s it was the terminus of the Canada Central Railway ( subsequently acquired by the Canadian Pacific Railway ).