[permalink] [id link]
When the railroad built a stop at La Plata, it began to lobby the legislature to move the county seat there, which was accomplished in 1895.
from
Wikipedia
Some Related Sentences
When and railroad
When two bills were passed to reduce railroad fares, Hughes vetoed them on that grounds that the rates should be set by expert commissioners rather than by elected ones.
When Ogden came to lead the Union Pacific, the railroad wasn't fully funded and hadn't yet laid a single mile of track — the railroad existed largely on paper created by an act of Congress.
When it was to be constructed, the engineers proposed to Nicholas that he draw the path of the future railroad on the map himself.
When the Republican Party came to power in 1860 they promoted a free land policy — notably the Homestead Act of 1862, coupled with railroad land grants that opened cheap ( but not free ) lands for settlers.
When there was not enough industry in the areas Hill was building, Hill brought the industry in, often by buying out a company and placing plants along his railroad lines.
When Regina asks Horace outright for the money, he refuses, so Leo, a bank teller, is pressured into stealing his uncle Horace's railroad bonds from the bank's safety deposit box.
When N & W converted to diesel, 2, 000 railroad workers were laid off.
When Dunson establishes that none of these wayfarers have seen the railroad, he disregards the news in favor of plugging on to Missouri.
When Parris suggests they move into one of the homes they've built, away from the railroad tracks and sounds of the trains that plague Drake, he becomes hysterical and makes Randy swear to never make him leave the room.
When the county was created, the founders wanted to include access to the transcontinental railroad, so a rectangular section was added that includes the railroad town of Truckee.
When the railroad bypassed the Contharp Community, many of the residents relocated to work at a nearby sawmill.
When the county's rail lines were constructed in the 1860s and 1870s, additional communities evolved around railroad stops.
When Musella became a flag stop, the railroad offered better opportunities for farmers to market their products, so many of the residents of nearby Ceres, Georgia, ( named after Roman goddess of agriculture ; settlement also called Hopewell ) migrated to Musella.
When Union force occupied Baton Rouge in May 1862, all rolling stock was sent to the extreme western end of the railroad for safety where it remained for the duration of the war.
When the railroad was not built into Tombstone as had been planned, the increasingly sophisticated city of Tombstone remained relatively isolated, deep in a Federal territory that was largely an unpopulated desert and wilderness.
When the railroad was constructed from Needles, California to Kingman, Arizona, Hardyville was abandoned and became a ghost town.
When the railroad bypassed Hardyville, it quickly became a ghost town until the construction of the Davis Dam.
When the east-west railroad line was completed, it crossed the north-south line near the boxcar, and the name " Wynne Junction " became well known in the area.
When the railroad came into McGehee in 1878 and continued south and southwest, people began to move into the area.
When the railroad came through, Robinson deeded a small tract of his land back to the railroad for a depot site.
When the Saint Louis-San Francisco ( Frisco ) railroad came through the area thirty years later, a small passenger and freight station was built and a post office to serve the small community was set up across the road in the back of the general store that was operated by the McNabs.
" When the day ’ s work was completed, the railroad construction crew, mostly all immigrants from neighboring towns, cooked their supper over an open fire and returned to their homes when the last " skillet was licked.
When and built
When he built his first steel plant, he made a point of naming it after Thomson.
When 301 of the most advanced model, the " Launch Arco ," are built, an " exodus sequence " starts in which all Launch Arcos blast into space.
When the work was completed, three dragons rushed against the wall, and while the two of them which attacked those parts of the wall built by the gods fell down dead, the third forced its way into the city through the part built by Aeacus.
When fully built out, the neighborhood is projected to have 14, 000 residents.
When they returned to San Francisco for their final series with the Giants on September 14, the Rockies had once again built a large Wild Card lead.
When the road reached Columbus, Tipton constructed the first bypass road ever built ; it detoured south around the west side of Columbus enroute to Seymour.
When a column is too long to be built or transported in one piece, it has to be extended or spliced at the construction site.
When these vessels of a new model were built, which were intended to " clip " over the waves rather than plough through them, the improved type of craft became known as " clippers " because of their speed.
When the First Transcontinental Railroad was proposed in the 1850s, Atchison called for it to be built along the central route ( from St. Louis through Missouri, Kansas, and Utah ), rather the southern route ( from New Orleans through Texas and New Mexico ).
When Cecil Sharp produced his interpretations he was working in the dark, and others have built on ( and sometimes disagreed with ) his work.
When Munch died, his remaining works were bequeathed to the city of Oslo, which built the Munch Museum at Tøyen ( it opened in 1963 ).
When multiple thicknesses are built, the shielding multiplies.
When Hadrian reached Britannia on his famous tour of the Roman provinces around 120, he directed an extensive defensive wall, known to posterity as Hadrian's Wall, to be built close to the line of the Stanegate frontier.
When the fourth dorm ( Marks ) was built, there was one corner of the quad available ( the northwest ) and one directional name, " South ", remaining.
When the railroads through Sweden were built late in that century, Hultsfred received a population boost.
* When Spanish and Portuguese Christians took control of Iberia, they built churches over mosques and destroyed other imagery of Islam.
When a canal was built through the land his body was placed in storage in a warehouse for several years before being secretly deposited in the crypt of Christ Church ( demolished 1899 ), Birmingham.
When they arrived at Kuwait, the Al-Khalifa, Al-Sabah, Al-Roumi and Al-Jalahma have established a settlement and have possibly built a fortress from which the name Kuwait, a diminutive of kut or fortress, derives.
When Guericke held his hand against the ball and turned the shaft quickly, a static electric charge built up.
When it appeared that the revolt would succeed, the Thrintun elders built and used a psychic amplifier that forced every sentient being in the galaxy to commit suicide, the signal repeating for centuries.
When he was not away at school, Michael lived with his mother, before 1935 in coastal hotels, after 1935 ( when they were built ) in the avant garde Berthold Lubetkin's Highpoint modernist apartments in Highgate.
When taken according to the prescribers instructions, Methadone is relatively safe, as the prescriber will have gradually built the dose up to avoid the danger of overdose.
When Isaac Newton built the first reflecting telescope in 1668 he skipped using a parabolic mirror because of the difficulty of fabrication, opting for a spherical mirror.
When John's body was moved, the original vault above the floor was removed and a new one built beneath the ground ; it was here that the body of Pope John Paul II was entombed from 2005 to 2011 before being moved for his beatification in 2011.
0.243 seconds.