And in 1845 Senator Zadock Pratt introduced the Memorial of Asa Whitney to legislators, calling for construction of a railroad west from Lake Michigan. Whitney foresaw a self-financing enterprise.

Will you act accordingly? Voice of Industry, Vol. 1 No. 19, 2 October 1845 The Pittsburgh Strike.1 The female operatives of Pittsburgh could not succeed in obtaining their desire. Their employers, in ...

AUSTINTOWN — If you live anywhere in the Mahoning Valley, chances are great that you’re at or very near a route that was once part of the Underground Railroad ... in 1845, the town published ...

(NOTE: This is a story Dennis Owens and I put together back in 2020, when there was a lot of complaining about the time it ...

1 in Higher Education Florida attained statehood in 1845, yet not until a pair of railroad barons built lines down the Atlantic and Gulf coasts in the late 1800s and early 1900s did the state ...

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Brett uses “second-level thinking” to find dividend stocks to buy. Railroad stocks are set to roll and we’re going to climb aboard with two stocks—including one that’s hiked payouts by ...

Originally built in 1845, right before Florida's entry into ... Located between Florida State University and Florida A&M University, Railroad Square Art District serves as an art and entertainment ...

On October 4, 1883, the legendary Orient Express departed Gare de l’Est in Paris for the very first time, slowly winding through Europe on its way to Constantinople, as Istanbul was then known.

"Big Thunder Mountain Railroad will temporarily close for refurbishment on January 6, 2025," Walt Disney World announced on the attraction's webpage. "The attraction will reopen with a little bit ...