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... miles of rails was spiked down . When gandy dancers became soldiers in 1861 , Illinois had 2,790 miles of track , only some 300 miles south of the national road , and ranked second among the states in that category . ( The eleven ...
... miles of rails was spiked down . When gandy dancers became soldiers in 1861 , Illinois had 2,790 miles of track , only some 300 miles south of the national road , and ranked second among the states in that category . ( The eleven ...
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... miles of track had been laid in the 1870s ( 499 miles after 1873 ) , 2,251 miles in the 1880s , and 1,043 in the 1890s , with bursts from 1874 to 1876 , 1880 to 1883 , 1885 to 1888 , and in 1890. By 1893 the commission found that 85 ...
... miles of track had been laid in the 1870s ( 499 miles after 1873 ) , 2,251 miles in the 1880s , and 1,043 in the 1890s , with bursts from 1874 to 1876 , 1880 to 1883 , 1885 to 1888 , and in 1890. By 1893 the commission found that 85 ...
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... miles stretching from Cairo northward to Centralia , where it branched by way of Effingham and then to Chicago by way of Decatur and Bloomington to Dunleith , to a total of 1,611 miles of track by absorbing roads in the central and ...
... miles stretching from Cairo northward to Centralia , where it branched by way of Effingham and then to Chicago by way of Decatur and Bloomington to Dunleith , to a total of 1,611 miles of track by absorbing roads in the central and ...
Contents
Of People and Places | 1 |
Structure of Governmental Power | 35 |
Of Men and Machines | 72 |
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| Title | Building for the Centuries: Illinois, 1865 to 1898 Volume 4 of Sesquicentennial history of Illinois |
| Author | John Howard Keiser |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press, 1977 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 15 Aug 2006 |
| ISBN | 0252006178, 9780252006173 |
| Length | 386 pages |
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