Description: Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad Company. Stock printed by National Bank Note Co., NY. Gorgeous and Very Rare! The Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad started operations in 1847 and stopped service in 1901 for a total period of operations of 54 years. Also available unissued at a lesser price. Please inquire if interested. The Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad was the first railroad to cross Missouri starting in Hannibal in the northeast and going to St. Joseph, Missouri, in the northwest. It is said to have carried the first letter to the Pony Express on April 3, 1860, from a train pulled behind the locomotive Missouri. The line connected the second and third largest cities in the state of Missouri prior to the American Civil War. The stage route that it paralleled had previously been called the "Hound Dog Trail". Construction on the railroad (formed during an 1846 meeting at the Hannibal office of John Marshall Clemens, father of Mark Twain) began in 1851 from both cities. Bonds from counties along the route along with the donation of 600,000 acres (2,400km) in land voted by Congress paid for construction. The lines met in Chillicothe, Missouri, on February 13, 1859. A marker the railroad placed at the site was discovered in 2009 at the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railroad Museum in Galesburg, Illinois. The line started westward from Hannibal and ran through the Missouri cities of Palmyra, Monroe City, Lakenan, Shelbina, Clarence, Anabel, Macon, Bevier, Callao, New Cambria, Bucklin, Brookfield, Laclede, Meadville, Wheeling, Chillicothe, Utica, Mooresville, Breckenridge, Nettleton, Hamilton, Kidder, Cameron, Osborn, Stewartsville, Hemple, Easton, before arriving in St. Joseph. John Rogers, well before he became a popular 19th-century American sculptor, worked in 1856 and 1857 as a mechanic on the railroad. Abraham Lincoln rode the route in 1859 en route to a speech in Council Bluffs, Iowa. The first assignment of Col. Ulysses S. Grant during the American Civil War was protecting the railroad and Pony Express mail. Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.
Price: 285 USD
Location: Portsmouth, New Hampshire
End Time: 2025-01-27T14:46:43.000Z
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