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The railroad, developed in the 1840s, bypassed the town of Somers, and affected a decline in growth over the next hundred years.
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As travel technology developed in the mid-19th century, Petersburg became established as a railroad center, with lines completed to Richmond to the north, Farmville and Lynchburg to the west, and Weldon, North Carolina to the south.
A small community developed in the area named Sahuarito, while the railroad laid tracks through the area ( which remain to this day ) and established a station and post office.
A small community developed in the area named Sahuarito, while the railroad laid tracks through the area ( which remain to this day ) and established a station and post office.
John Olson's model railroad, the Jerome & Southwestern, originally developed as a series of articles in Model Railroader Magazine and later released in book form was also set in and around Jerome, and referred to other local sites such as Clarkdale, Cleopatra Hill and Mingus Mountain.
The railroad is what developed this town and kept it alive.
Whitson, E. H. Tucker, George Otis and Monroe Snyder — formed a partnership and developed a townsite along the railroad.
Initially, the town developed around a stage stop on the Monterey Trail, though after the railroad passed by east of town, Elk Grove's center shifted to its present location.
When Henry Flagler brought his railroad down to Lemon City ( a year or so before he extended it to Miami in 1896 ), he placed depots at numerous spots along the route, and small towns quickly developed around those stops.
LaGrange developed as a railroad center and as an industrial center for the textile industry which was established and grew from the late 19th century and peaked in the mid-20th century.
After Dr. Screven ’ s death in 1859, his son John Bryan Screven took over the railroad and developed it into the Savannah, Florida and Western Railroad.
The much larger community of Twin Falls to the south never developed a strong railroad presence due to the logistical issues presented by its location south of the Snake River Canyon.
At this railroad intersection, a business center for the rich agricultural community was developed.
The Bethalto Arboretum is an arboretum on the east end of town that was developed in 1966 after the demise of the railroad era in Bethalto.
Washington developed as a railroad town in 1857.
) Both communities developed as a result of their locations adjacent to the Baltimore and Annapolis Short Line railroad which brought commuters to the original truck farming community.
As a developed community, Linthicum began with the 1908 founding of the " Linthicum Heights Company ", though a " Linthicum " or " Linthicum's " station on the 1887 Annapolis and Baltimore Short Line railroad existed at least as early as 1889.
Small villages developed around these various railroad lines, but none amounted to more than a cluster of shops and homes around a train station and post office.
With the arrival of the railroad in 1850, Stockbridge developed as a summer resort for the wealthy of Boston and other major cities.
Three villages developed around mills at the cascades and the easy grades along the valley were utilized for a railroad route across the Berkshires ' 2000 feet ( 600 m ) of relief.
A railroad station and facilities were necessary near the northern edge of the township, and so the second community, Thomas, was developed.
A railroad station and facilities were necessary near the northern edge of the township, and so the second community, Thomas, was developed.
But nearby Woodsville developed into a major railroad junction, and the region's commercial center shifted there.
Woods operated a sawmill on the Ammonoosuc River, and developed a railroad supply enterprise following the establishment of the Boston, Concord & Montreal Railroad.
With the coming of the Mississippi-Tennessee railroad in 1858, rows of stores and other businesses developed on both sides of the tracks, along with houses of worship.
In 1881, the area was originally known as Bell's Grade and Hibbard and developed as a result of the railroad.
railroad and 1840s
The takeoff stage of economic development came with the railroad revolution in the 1840s, which opened up new markets for local products, created a pool of middle manager, increased the demand for engineers, architects and skilled machinists and stimulated investments in coal and iron.
The takeoff stage of economic development came with the railroad revolution in the 1840s, which opened up new markets for local products, created a pool of middle managers, increased the demand for engineers, architects and skilled machinists and stimulated investments in coal and iron.
Since early in the 1840s the topic of a transcontinental railroad had been discussed.
Refrigerated railroad cars were introduced in the US in the 1840s for short-run transport of dairy products.
Settlement was sporadic until the late 1840s, when Opelika quickly became a commercial center with the coming of the railroad.
About the time that the railroad was being constructed in the 1840s and 1850s, the population had grown to the point that it was necessary to plat further development.
Somerville was originally a sparsely populated farming community, but rapidly grew after the completion of the railroad in the 1840s and development of water power along the Raritan River in the 1850s.
When the railroad reached Spartanburg in the late 1840s, a market was established for the agricultural products of the area.
From the arrival of the first railroads in the late 1840s until rail diminished in importance in the 1960s due to the Interstate Highway System, White River Junction was the most important railroad community in Vermont.
The local population remained small until the arrival of the railroad in the 1840s.
When the Orange and Alexandria Railroad was constructed in the late 1840s, the railroad station at the base of that hill was named Burke's Station after Burke, who owned the land in the area and donated a right-of-way to the railroad company.
* Henry Morrison Flagler-Standard Oil tycoon, real estate promoter and railroad developer, began his business career in Bellevue in the 1840s
Eastchester's rural makeup began to change with the coming of the railroad in the 1840s.
By the 1840s small firms had begun operations, but marble quarries only became profitable when the railroad came to Rutland in 1851.
With the introduction of the railroad in the 1840s, the importance of the river for transportation diminished.
There has been a railroad station at Porter Square since the Fitchburg Railroad began operations in the early 1840s.
As the 1840s approached, and more American railroads were experimenting with the new 4-4-0 locomotive type, the 4-2-0 fell out of favor as it was not as able to pull a paying load on the railroad as the 4-4-0.
The great majority of locomotives of the 1830s and 1840s were built to burn wood, which was very plentiful, cheap and exceptionally easy to obtain along the railroad rights of way.
Another railroad was chartered in the early 1840s whose fortunes would be closely tied to those of the Boston and Lowell.
The Reading paralleled the Schuylkill River navigation canal, and by the 1840s proved the superiority of the railroad over the turnpikes and canals as the inland transportation system of the nineteenth century.
Though private concerns such as the Nuremberg-Fürth railroad were superseded by government railroad companies in the 1840s, the government companies copied many of the private companies ' methods and organizational structures.
Early settlers in the 1840s primarily planted wheat, it was not until the introduction of the railroad in the 1850s and 1860s that corn became the primary crop of Iowa.
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