The Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston Rail Road: Dreams of Linking North and South
H. Roger Grant, "The Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston Rail Road: Dreams of Linking North and South "
English | ISBN: 0253011817 | 2014 | 208 pages | PDF | 5 MB
English | ISBN: 0253011817 | 2014 | 208 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Among the grand antebellum plans to build railroads to interconnect the vast American republic, perhaps none was more ambitious than the Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston. The route was intended to link the cotton-producing South and the grain and livestock growers of the Old Northwest with traders and markets in the East, creating economic opportunities along its 700-mile length. But then came the Panic of 1837, and the project came to a halt. H. Roger Grant tells the incredible story of this singular example of "railroad fever" and the remarkable visionaries whose hopes for connecting North and South would require more than half a century―and one Civil War―to reach fruition.