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38213
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Senate president Calvin Graves’ conclusion, that North Carolina needed railroads, brought a better connection between the state’s crop producing west and machinery producing east. Results were the founding of cities such as Burlington and creation of conduits for ports such Wilmington’s. The irony behind this beginning is Grave’s concluded political career in his home county and relative anonymity today. Currently, only a highway marker in Yanceyville recognizes his role in the growth of North Carolina’s manufacturing industries’ muscle.
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40185
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39453
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Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad’s history included its merger in 1870, joining the Eastern North Carolina Dispatch in 1877, the election of James A. Bryan as company president in 1899, its renaming to the Atlantic and North Carolina Company by Richard S. Howland; and Howland’s consolidation of the Atlantic and North Carolina Company with five other railroad companies. The author coincides the multi-railroad company merger with railroads ceding to ships as a major transporting source by the early twentieth century.
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3101
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Laying track to take the Western North Carolina Railroad from Old Fort to Asheville was a feat of engineering. Begun in 1877, the task included building seven tunnels and overcoming steep mountains to bring the first train through on October 3, 1880.
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36133
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New Bern, with maritime roots, became known as a major shipping port by the mid-eighteenth century. This helped to establish its place in the triangular trade and as the most populous town by the Revolution period. The War of 1812 and Civil War negatively impacted the trade-built economy. In fact, recovery by the 1870s occurred through growth in another industry: lumbering. Concerning its more current economy, industries contributing to its fiscal health since the nineteenth century were also transportation based: railroads and trucking.
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12879
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Fearing that the developing Virginia railroad companies might purloin trade and commerce in North Carolina, delegates, especially John Motley Morehead, became instrumental in forwarding the progress of the North Carolina Railroad Company during the 19th-century.
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19694
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In the early 19th century, connecting the Piedmont and Coast was of utmost concern for state legislators. To solicit investors to the proposed Fayetteville and Western Railroad, Rev. Simeon Colton was enlisted to travel to areas of proposed construction and illicit investors. His efforts failed but his remarks concerning the benefits of such a rail line and notes concerning his attempts to find interested parties in the company are reprinted here from an address Colton gave before the Board of Internal of the General Assembly in 1840.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 11 Issue 3, July 1934,
p205-238, f
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19568
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The history of the Piedmont Railroad Company begins with the proposal of a rail line between Greensboro and Danville, Virginia proposed in November 1848. Almost fourteen years later, the Piedmont Railroad Company was chartered in February 1862. This article reports on the legislative battle to approve the rail connection, logistics of establishing the railway, and the financial outcome of the company's operations.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 3 Issue 2, April 1926,
p198-222, f
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