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Book Title: History Of Henry County, The

THE RAILROADS.

    The Chicago and Rock Island Railroad, now Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
Railroad, was surveyed in 1850, and completed through Henry County, in February,
1854. The Central Military Tract Railroad, now Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Railroad, was surveyed in the Fall of 1852, and was completed as far as Kewanee,
in December, 1854, and to Galesburg shortly after. The American Central
Railroad, now the New Boston Branch of the C. B. & Q. Railroad, was begun in
1847. It was afterwards sold to the latter company, and was completed in the
Spring of 1868. The Peoria and Rock Island Railway was originated by Orrin E.
Page, Esq., and Amos Gould, of Cambridge, who procured a charter in 1867. To
their unremitting courage and labors in overcoming great obstacles, much of its
completion is due. The first train passed over it July 8, 1871. The Rockford,
Rock Island & St. Louis Railroad was completed later in the same year. Each side
of this large county as well as its center having a railroad, all parts are
within easy reach of produce markets, thus very nearly equalizing the value of
real estate throughout the county. Had these roads all crossed each other at any
given point, doubtless a large city would have grown up there, but as it is, the
village population, though considerable, is divided among several good sized but
thriving towns.


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THE HISTORY OF HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS, ITS TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS;
CONTAINING, ALSO, A BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY; A CONDENSED HISTORY OF THE STATE;
MAP OF THE COUNTY: A BUSINESS DIRECTORY: AN ABSTRACT OF EVERY-DAY LAWS; WAR
RECORD OF HENRY COUNTY; OFFICERS OF SOCIETIES, LODGES, ETC., ETC.

CHICAGO: H. F. KETT. & CO., 15 LAKESIDE BUILDING.

1877.


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